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yakalskovich) wrote2011-08-07 01:48 am
yakalskovich) wrote2011-08-07 01:48 am
List of my 15 most important children's books even grown-ups enjoy
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erastes. I'll try and be chronological.
1. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne. My great-aunt read it to me in English when I was three and four years old. That's why my close relationship with the English language. I've had it for practically all my life.
2. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri. The traditional favourite book of the children in my family for generations.
3. Maya the Bee, by Waldemar Bonsels. For me, it was about cycles in nature, life and death, and the manifold small creatures humming in my grandmother's garden. As a kid that was stung by bees and the like a few times, it taught me to trust and respect nature.
4. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. It started my love for fantasy. I had no idea at that time LotR even existed, and promptly made up my own fantasy world.
5. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Full of cute and sad and hidden wisdom.
6. The Brothers Lionheart, by Astrid Lindgren. It's about these two kids that die and have adventures in a land between life and death until in the end they die again, finally. OMG I bawled so very badly!
7. The Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander. Started my love for all things Celtic.
8. The Railway Children, by Edith Nesbit
9. The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
10. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
11. Winnetou I. - III., by Karl May. That is a German classic; you are not required to know it. Still, it's full of adventure, and OMG the slash!! The slash!!! It's totally the root of all slash, at least for me.
12. A Battle for Rome, by Felix Dahn. Not a children's book, but in my family, we read that in our early teens. This book needs no explanation for any of my online friends, otherwise. **grins**
now follow the children's books I only encountered after I'd grown up:
13. His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
14. The Abhorsen Chronicles, by Garth Nix. I really love all the trope reversals to bits and gave it to my Little Lady for Christmas the year before last.
15. The Inkworld trilogy, by Cornelia Funke
erastes. I'll try and be chronological.1. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne. My great-aunt read it to me in English when I was three and four years old. That's why my close relationship with the English language. I've had it for practically all my life.
2. Heidi, by Johanna Spyri. The traditional favourite book of the children in my family for generations.
3. Maya the Bee, by Waldemar Bonsels. For me, it was about cycles in nature, life and death, and the manifold small creatures humming in my grandmother's garden. As a kid that was stung by bees and the like a few times, it taught me to trust and respect nature.
4. The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. It started my love for fantasy. I had no idea at that time LotR even existed, and promptly made up my own fantasy world.
5. The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Full of cute and sad and hidden wisdom.
6. The Brothers Lionheart, by Astrid Lindgren. It's about these two kids that die and have adventures in a land between life and death until in the end they die again, finally. OMG I bawled so very badly!
7. The Chronicles of Prydain, by Lloyd Alexander. Started my love for all things Celtic.
8. The Railway Children, by Edith Nesbit
9. The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende
10. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
11. Winnetou I. - III., by Karl May. That is a German classic; you are not required to know it. Still, it's full of adventure, and OMG the slash!! The slash!!! It's totally the root of all slash, at least for me.
12. A Battle for Rome, by Felix Dahn. Not a children's book, but in my family, we read that in our early teens. This book needs no explanation for any of my online friends, otherwise. **grins**
now follow the children's books I only encountered after I'd grown up:
13. His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
14. The Abhorsen Chronicles, by Garth Nix. I really love all the trope reversals to bits and gave it to my Little Lady for Christmas the year before last.
15. The Inkworld trilogy, by Cornelia Funke