Anything Goes discussion

your favourite chidrens book.

When I was a child, I think my single favorite children's book was Louisa May Alcott's . I just loved (as so many children seem to, in my experience) stories about injured children, especially if it ended happily. And I loved Jill: brave, feisty, disobedient, suffering. I must have read that book dozens of time!

The other book I absolutely adored for similar reason was which I also read repeated. Again, I loved the heroine's courage, leadership & especially her vivid imagination, the way she wrote (=told) the other children stories & how her imagination saved her sanity. Her imagination was probably the major support she had for her courage.

Now I love Russell Hoban's Frances the badger series, almost anything by Eric Carle because of the art work & pretty much everything by Tomie de Paola.

I love so many children's books, though, it's hard to narrow it down.

And then too, if you're also including picture books, that's another huge area.

And so much more has been done since I was a child, so much of quality. It's the one area I think has gotten better since "back in my days."

Which, come to think of it, despite how people go on, weren't all that great! Post WWII, post-bomb, during the Cold War right into the 60s drugs & Vietnam.

But minus the World Trade Towers which was hard on my daughter. Especially since her school was only about a mile away.

My favourite book from my childhood is Heidi, and my two daughters love it too

Oh yeah, happy memories. I loved Heidi when I was growing up: funny, I was just discussing that with a friend! I used to play I was Heidi & make my poor little brother be Peter the goatherd & we'd eat bread & cheese in our hut (the dining room table covered by a tablecloth!). My daughter loves Heidi too.

Thanks Chris for reminding me.:)