So what childhood books inspired you?

[khashka]

I've gotta do this kiddy lit thang I know what inspired me but I need to know what inspired you guys and gals

Help me do this right.

Khash.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Is "To Kill a Mockingbird" considered Kiddie Lit? It was fantastic.

[progmom]

2. how old a kid?

my very favorite books for a long time were:

Little Bear
and
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

[JimmyJazz]

3. Inspired? I'd go with Shel Siverstein

The Missing Piece

or

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O

Oh stop! It's not what you think.

[Theres-a]

6. Where the sidewalk ends

I loved that book.

[Theres-a]

7. Ferdinand the bull

[progmom]

16. excellent book

a favorite in my house

[WeRQ4U]

20. Always loved that one. We had the book and the disney cartoon.

[BrklynLiberal]

24. Right! Shel Silverstein had some Great kids books!!

The Giving Tree.

[kick-ass-bob]

4. Oh the Places You'll Go.

Dr Seuss.

[LiberalEsto]

5. The Dana Girls and Nancy Drew series

They showed me that women and girls can do more in life than just be simpering doormats for men.

[MountainLaurel]

8. Harriet the Spy

Anything by Judy Blume.

Katherine Paterson's "Bridge to Terabithia" and "Jacob Have I Loved"

Lois Lowry's Anastasia Krupnik books.

"A Wrinkle in Time"

[progmom]

11. you and i read the same books

thinking of bridge to terabithia still overwhelms me with sadness. and i was a madeleine l'engle freak!

[MountainLaurel]

19. Bridge to Terabithia

Affected me strongly -- it was the first children's book I'd ever found that talked about poor kids living in Appalachia, who rode buses for an hour to get to their consolidated school, whose fathers worked in urban areas like DC and Pittsburgh during the week and came home on the weekends to sleep and not be bothered by their children, who got things like pantyhose for Christmas, and who didn't fit in to the homogenous community and were ostracized for it. Which was, pretty much, the environment I grew up in and was familiar with.

The boy and his sisters could have been my cousins who lived in an isolated run. (I lived in town, where we had cable TV and city water lines rather than well water, and thus I was a city mouse.) My own Terabithia was a grove of pines that surrounded a small graveyard, and the hillside copse of trees at my cousin's house. The creek where Jess was killed could have been any that I crossed in my regular play.

[progmom]

21. i think that was the first book that made me cry just from reading it

sorry it was so close to home for you.

[Mutley]

35. Anything by Judy Blume except "Forever"

It contains some pretty graphic descriptions. I'd save that one for the 13-14 year olds at least. I was 13 when I read it and I was pretty shocked.

[Strawman]

9. The Pigman

I used to like those Paul Zindel books when I was a kid.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. I think the name was, Timothy Bear. It was the story of a little bear

who didn't want to learn to read. But after he thought an invitation to a birthday party said 'Wet Paint', he decided to learn to read.

Guess W. didn't have that one!

[caty]

12. Childern's books written

by Edgar Eager. "Half Magic" was the first book I had read that I just could'nt put down. I loved reading from that book on and I still am an avid reader.

[quisp]

13. At the far end of town where the grickle grass grows...

gotta be the Lorax by Dr. Suess

[WeRQ4U]

14. The Giving Tree, Goodnight Moon, Velveteen Rabbit

[tigereye]

15. The Little Engine That Could

(I think I can, I think I can.)
Make Way For Ducklings
Paddle to the Sea
A Wrinkle In Time
Nancy Drew
The Happy Hollisters
Johnny Tremaine
LOTR (teen)

Ulysses ( j/k)

[RPM]

22. big ups to the Giving Tree

[ms liberty]

17. A trip down memory lane...

The Bobbsey Twins
Trixie Belden
Nancy Drew
Harriet the Spy
I also read the Happy Hollisters, but I don't think many people have even heard of them!

I think I loved Trixie and Nancy the best of all of them.


BTW, love your sig line...that The Dreaming is my favorite Kate Bush LP, I worked in a record store when it came out and I have a promo copy. Of course, I also have the CD now!

Yea, I am showing my age!

[fishnfla]

18. "My Side of the Mountain" is one I remember

The Little House on the Prarie series another
The Yearling is another


Today our kids are going for Harry Potter and the Surfer Girl bio

[YankeyMCC]

23. 21 Balloons. by William Pene Dubois and

"A Wrinkle in Time"

[Blue-Jay]

25. "The Little Prince"

I probably read that a thousand times when I was a kid.

[Arugula Latte]

26. Pippi Longstocking.

Girl Power, baby!

[Parche]

27. books

The Big E USS Enterprise
The Chronicles of Narnia

[micrometer_50]

28. Horton Hears a Who n/t

[VelmaD]

29. The Sneeches by Dr. Seuss

Really shows how ridiculous discrimination is.

Last year at my agency's annual conference they broke us up into teams based on a colored star that was on our badge. We joked the whole time about the star-bellied sneeches.

[Trigger Hippie]

30. Books by Robert Cormier were big for me.

Blubber by Judy Blume, Are you there God it's Me Margaret and Deenie.

[Ron Green]

31. "Beautiful Joe" n/t

[Initech]

32. I was a big fan of Dr. Seuss growing up

Still am! That man was WAY ahead of his time.

[Lilyhoney]

33. The Complete Nonsense Book

of Edward Lear. The pictures are silly and so are the words. It is great for children to hear and play around with nonsense words and rhymes. Great for all young readers and those not so young.

Also I have a couple of books that rank and summarize childrens books. So if you need help in finding something a little more geared for someone you know, I can help you. Let me know.

[Shakespeare]

34. The Lorax.

Turned me into a hardcore treehugger from that day on.

[khashka]

36. Two things I did not have on my list

Goodnight Moon. Even as an adult I love that book.

Nancy Drew .Boy oh boy I am slapping myself in the forehead over that one. Of course! How many heros are girls? Way too few.


Thanks, kids. I really do appreciate it. And I'll do a better job because of you.

Thanks,
Khash.