This item is for the discussion of favorite "Children's" books.

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My favorite books at about age twelve or thirteen were by Natalie Babbitt.
She is probably best known for her book, _Tuck Everlasting_.
That book left a strong impression on me that shaped how I to this day
think about death and dying.
Other books which she wrote, and that have been ingrained into me are:

_The Eyes of the Amaryllis_

A wonderful story about the power of love.
It's also a story about the sea, but not so much.
A book I still come back to.

_Goody Hall_

A kind of 'mystery' story that'll leave you guessing right up to the end.
It also has Hercules Feltwright, who might have been my favorite
childhood character ever.  Who else could misquote Shakespeare so well:

        "To thine own self renew, and it must follow,
         as the knight the doe, thou canst not then
         befall to any man."

Definitely a favorite.

_Knee-Knock Rise_

A story about the need to have something to believe in.
I remember getting this book from the library and reading it straight through
in one setting.  I thought that was quite an accomplishment at thirteen.

What memories of favorite childhood books do you have?

If I really get started I could spend hours entering a list here.  So I'll
mention one batch (this counts as an entry in the "unexpected pleasure" item
one, too): all but a couple I've read by Eloise Jarvis McGraw are really
outstanding.  They're for older kids (most of my favorites are, at that).

for some reason one of my favorite children's books is _Harold and the Purple
Crayon_ .  I think it is because he uses his imagination- that's the whole
story.  I just really love that book.  Of course when I was little my
favorite's were Curious George!  I loved him.

Curious George!   I'd forgotten all about him!  shame on me!
I wonder if I can still get those books?

Oh yeah, try Barnes and noble in AA- I know they have him tehre!!!!

One of my all-time favorites was Katherine Paterson's "The Bridge to 
Terabithia."  It's a wonderful book about children and relationships
and the true nature of death--random and inexplicable, but one of life's
greatest teachings.  It certainly helped my philosophies of death along
at a young age.  Has anyone else read it??

I just read it.  I cried.

A tear jerker?   Hmm.... maybe I should.... Nah....Not now....
Maybe later.

I read that in 6th grade.  I cried so hard!!! That book and "Where the Red
Fern Grows"  <sun sobs>

Oh, I had almost forgotten about "Where The Red Fern Grows!"  I remember,
I think I read them about the same time and they are both SO SAD :(::::
<sniff>

I KNOW!!! :~(

How about the Frog and Toad books?  I remember loving them as a kid,
along with Babar and the Frances series- the hedgehog that eats
Chompo bars on her sister's birthday...

Anne and I went to Barnes and Nobel, and we looked at the Frog and Toad books
and we remembered fondly....I was looing for a book in my mother's collection
(she was a children's lbrarian, and has a Master's in Children's Literature)
and saw "Bedtime for Frances" and I read it...it was SO COOL!

Try reading this year's Newberry award winnder "The Giveer" by Lois Lowry. 
It's a fabulous book....much more meaning for adults than for children.  She
also wrote another award winner, "Number the Stars"

I liked  A Wrinkle in Time the best. It's one of my favorite books.

Me too.  I read it about ten times.
That and Brave New World (which is irrelevant to this item).

Tesseract?  Did you by any chance read "Many Waters"?  A fourht in
the series and IMO, not nearly as good and waaaay to moralistic.
My favorite books were C.S.Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia and J.R.R.Tolkein
Lord of the Rings.   Big surprise if you know where I got my
name from.

I though Many Waters was fifth, but I might be wrong.  Never read it.
Got possessed with the name in the bookstore, bought it, took it home
and read the back of the book, and freaked.

You may be right bro...it might be fifth.  Yep.....it uses the 2x4
method of morality.  WHAM!

Then what was #4?

Good question...anybody?

I liked C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia" especially THE LION
THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE.  Also, any of L. Frank Baums's 
Oz books...

The Harper Hall trilogy is a good intro for older kids to the world of Anne
McCaffrey's Pern.

I agree- I really liked those books, I think I was in seventh grade
when I read them for the first time (I read them over and over again...)
For me it kinda showed me that if I tried hard enough, and wanted
something enough- with a little luck it could happen... I mean it
happened to Menolly... (That's not the only place I got that idea
from, but it did help to re-inforce the notion at a time when I was
just entering the teen years and wasn't feeling very confident...)

Did she hook up with Sebell in that trilogy, or later?

Ummm... I think she hooked up with him in _The White Dragon_ which
comes before the third book in the trilogy- which is about Piemur..
no... wait, they 'hook up' on the boat as they are going to Southern
to look for Piemur (or some other reason...)  Kimi went into heat...
and well... I believe Rocky caught her... and well... the rest just
kind took it's course...

Yes, that's the incident I was referring to...  when was that?  (i.e., what
book?)  I remember being mildly amused at Sebell's initial confusion.

Hold on, don't respond here.

Okay, I entered a new item for discussing PERN...

It was the third book- I think _Dragon Drums_ is the title.  And yeah
Sebell was confused- cause he thought she wasnted Robinton...

children's books!?!? what the hell is that, books can't be aged, I put away
very vew of the books I read as a "child" but my favorites still are around,
the Barbapapa books, many Little Golden Books, Dr Seuss books, Berenstains
Bears, and some more obscure, Crictor by Tomi Ungerer, George and Martha books
James Marshall, Harry and the Terrible Whatzit by Dick Gackenbach, and The
Candy Witch by Steven Kroll. those were the ones I grabed first I still read
them all, and love them just as much.
<mumble> children's books <humpf>

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