Re-reading Childhood Faves? Suggestions?

[hodge]

I felt the same way about The Golden Compass. The movies are rarely as good as the books. I think that some books conjure up such powerful images in our own minds that the movie generally disappoints.

 

[Fadeaway]

Anne of Green Gables
On the Back of the North Wind

For short stories this was my favorite as a child Dead Link Removed

 

[katz]

I'm bored, depressed, have the attention span of a gnat (How do we know what the attention span of a g...

I have always likes the Sherlock Holmes stories. They seem to keep my mind occupied for the short time I take to "re-read" them. Even knowing the ending is ok.

 

[EmmaOwl]

Oh. I forgot I had posted this on "social" and not "discussion". I am just doing a general sweep :) While I'm here....

I felt the same way about The Golden Compass. The movies are rarely as good as the books. I think that so...

Well, they did Harry Potter.... On the other hand The Golden Compass was far more complicated. Forget the trilogy - they could've made the first book into at least 2 movies.

Oh, also! @ladee , I found Cold Sassy Tree. It is by Olve Ann Burns but it is kind of dusty. Right next to Anne Tyler Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, a book of Alice Munro short stories, and "The Dancing Girl of Izu" by Yasunari Kawabata. But they are all kind of dusty. :sick:

 

[EmmaOwl]

Olive, not Olve.

 

[EmmaOwl]

I have always likes the Sherlock Holmes stories. They seem to keep my mind occupied for the short time I t...

That's a good idea... The stories are sort of mid-length, aren't they?

 

[EmmaOwl]

*Offers @Allie D. a directors chair and baseball cap, so she can call our Book-sitt...

I forgot until just now that I played Mary Anne in a convoluted little play my friends and I put on for the Talent Show in 2nd grade! We "wrote" it ourself. During the "audition" they made us cut down on length. It was probably dreadful! Just the story about how the club formed. I must find my parents and ask how they sat through such things.

 

[EmmaOwl]

ourselves, not ourself!
I am writing everything wrong today :(

 

[EmmaOwl]

Well I've switched over to the "Betsy-Tacy" series by Maud Hart Lovelace... It's a series from the 1940's, and the books "grow" with the characters - kind of like Harry Potter, or Anne of Green Gables.. or like the "Little House" books, too, but this is more dramatic.
Right now is perfect - the two girls are 5 and starting school as best friends across the street. Maybe I'll go all the way up with them through school, until they have beaux, and have weddings and all.
Comforting because I know the stories, and also simply told. Perfect for me right now.

While I'm here...
***I LOVE this thread and I will always be coming back to it. Thanks so much everyone, for helping create such a great reference/database of books to read and directions to go!***

 

[ninja]

I just stopped at a really cool kids bookstore this afternoon. I picked up a Calvin and Hobbes compilation.
Junie B. Jones and the Magic Tree House, I used to love. Ramona, too. :hug:
There were two picture books one called, What Do You Do With An Idea and another What Do You Do With A Problem
Both were gentle and had calm illustrations.
I loved The Tail of Despereux
I would like to read The Penderwicks

 

[trying2movefwd]

Dr. Suess .... can never go wrong there. :)

 

[EmmaOwl]

Kids classics- Pretty much anything by Frances Hodgson Burnett- A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy,

@jaccat, do you or anyone else recommend any other Frances Hodgson Burnett books? I have her "collected works" on ebook, and many of her works can be found here for free, since they are out of copyright. (Note - the free versions are not always formatted very well, don't usually have pictures, etc.)

I'm sure there is good reason that those 3 books are the most popular! But I wonder what might be second-best. Suggestions, anyone?