Mary wrote: > just curious - what are your favorite children's books and are there any > commonalities among them? Mine are Karen by Marie Killilea (nonfiction about > a girl with cerebral palsy growing up in the 1940's), The Little White Horse > by Elizabeth Goudge (fiction about a girl in Victorian England who goes to > her uncle's country estate, and Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce > (fiction about a boy who stays with his aunt and uncle and finds a garden in > "a secret place in time".
OK, confession time. Not only do I still have all my childrens books (only because my mother threatened to give them all away if I didn't get them out of her house) I also re-read some of them from time to time, for nostalgia's sake! My favourites (in no particular order) include(d): The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew - The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe - The Horse And His Boy - Prince Caspian - The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader - The Silver Chair - The Last Battle The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett The Famous Five series - Enid Blyton (I could list all 21 titles here in order.......but I won't!) The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Graham Winnie The Pooh - A.A. Milne Peter Pan And Wendy - J.M. Barrie (every adult should read this - hilarious!) The Uncle Remus Stories (Brer Rabbit, etc.) - can't remember the author? The Adventures of Tintin - Herge Maoriland Fairy Tales - Edith Howe (a "European-ised" version of traditional Maori legends) And when I was very young: Ant And Bee - not sure who wrote these, but they were wonderful! Noddy and Big Ears - Enid Blyton again (and the originals, not the "PC" version, where Big Ears can't sleep in the same bed with Noddy!) Hmmmm...maybe it IS time I cleaned out my bookshelves! No real common themes here, except for having good, interesting story-lines and characters. Hell ____________________________ "To have great poets, there must be great audiences too." - Walt Whitman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hell's Personal Photo Page: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hell/main/personal.htm Visit the NBLs (Natural Born Losers) at: http://www.nbls.co.nz
