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Among my earliest are Cooper's
The Last of the Mohican's, Swift's
Gulliver's Travels, and of course Mark Twain's
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, all of whom and more I read before fully understanding them...My parents taught me to read at a very early age, which caused all kinds of problems later, when I started school...
posted by
Nautikos
on September 22, 2008 at 12:32 PM
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anything by Dr. Suess - but i actually preferred old black and white movies - dyslexia arrived
posted by
ladychardonnay
on September 21, 2008 at 2:54 PM
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Neat Post :)
I liked:
Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss
and a strange book called Take Me to the Moon, by Sal Murdocca
The Lorax
posted by
myrrhage
on September 20, 2008 at 9:45 PM
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Kids books I discovered in high school
which are borderline kid's books, some a bit dark for actual kids, are the Moomintroll books written by Tove Janssen , a Finnish artist/author. The Moomins are in Finland what Mickey Mouse and his pals are in the US. And for some reason, the Japanese adore the Moomins, too.
In Finland there is a Moominland theme park.
http://www.moominland.com/
posted by
Ciel
on September 20, 2008 at 6:42 PM
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My earliest favorite book was The Little House a 1942 book written and illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton. My next favorite book was A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter. It was first published in August, 1909. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp, during the early 20th century. I must have read it a hundred times. Then I latched onto the Howard Pease books that were stories of the youngster who shipped out on tramp freighters and had all kinds of life-threatening adventures..
posted by
TAPS.
on September 20, 2008 at 5:57 PM
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Babar I never liked either ... My favorite were the smurfs... and yes I know I was in my late 20s when they came out but at the time I had little ones and we sat to watch them together ... I just loved the little blue buggers... so cute. When I was a kid I did not watch much TV... had one of those hard core Moms that when she was not dragging us to our grandparents was home schooling us. Great post :-)
posted by
Sinome
on September 20, 2008 at 5:21 PM
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Hmmm...let's see...
Winnie the Pooh, Curious George, Oh, and I read my moms Bobbsey Twins books that she kept. I also read every book that Judy Blume wrote.
posted by
shelly_b
on September 20, 2008 at 4:38 PM
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Hey Mal, how are you? The boys back to school and all situated? I think I like the dictionary the most, but I did favor Gulliver's Travels, for the nomad in me. lol sammy
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sam444
on September 20, 2008 at 10:11 AM
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I loved Blinky Bill about a Koala and snuggle pot and cuddle pie the
gum nut babies Christopher Robin and of course Pooh bear, Just William and then Enid Blyton books and Anne of Green Gables, all the series, and Seven little Australians and Possum another Aust. book and then I found Dickens
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Kabu
on September 19, 2008 at 8:53 PM
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Pooh, and Alice in Wonderland were my first ones after little golden books
Then a little later, it was The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet, and The Borrowers. And all the Little House books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder--I read them many times! (I am getting set to send the set, first editions, to my granddaughter.)
(Did you see your prize yet?)
posted by
Ciel
on September 19, 2008 at 8:10 PM
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