With that being said this week's top Ten list is top ten Childhood Favorites. My list is not in any form of order. It's whatever I thought of at the time of thinking it, so I suppose it is in order in the manner that my brain decided to hurl them out at me. Does that count?
Without further ado, the list:
1. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls – This is
probably the most reread book of my childhood. I’ve read it so many times I’ve
had to replace my copy… twice. While it’s
very sad, I loved this story and continuous read it. I still read it now.
2. The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle – I don’t know
anyone that hasn’t read this book. This was my first introduction to sorcery
and unicorns. While I grew up on My
Little Ponies (the 80s version) this was the first time I encountered a similar
world in a book.
3. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett – My grandmother
had a collection of books form when she was a girl and this was one of them.
Needless to say I wasn’t allowed to read her copy until I could be properly
trusted to take care of it. That’s probably the reason this story endears to me
as one of my favorites. It’s a symbol of responsibility and maturity in more
ways than one.
4. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery – I think
this is a typical childhood book for any girl. I didn’t fall for Pollyanna I
fell for Ann. I loved her antics and her demeanor though I haven’t read it in
some years I still remember parts of the story as clearly as if I had just
finished that page. It’s a wonderfully told tale.
5. Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene – I started my Nancy
Drew collection when I was in second grade. ^_^ My first book was the Secret in
the Old Clock. I continued collecting until I hit my first year of high school.
Then they started rereleasing books and it lost some of its luster.
6. Are you there God? It's me Margaret by Judy Blume –
My mother introduced me to this book around the start of puberty. I think I
read it ten or twelve times during that phase as a sort of reminder. It’s
always good to have that back up person.
7. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry – This was a
powerfully moving book. It made me really think about friendship and the
importance of it. Being a minority myself, when reading this I thought about
how similar things were still if not necessarily caused by Nazis. I could really
connect because in a lot of ways the racism the Nazis had for the Jewish wasn’t
much different than the racism I dealt with in school.
8. Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor
Coerr – This is the only true story I’ve ever read in my life. I’ve read a lot
of based on a true story, but never one that was actually a real true story. Of
all the real stories I’ve read (or based on) I love this one the most.
9. Julie of the wolves by Jean Craighead George –
What I remember most about this book, is that I didn’t want to read it.
>_< Then after reading it, I had to read the second one. Then read the
third one. It sort of drew me in and made me love the characters without even
me remembering I didn’t want to read it to begin with.
10. Into the Land of the Unicorns by Bruce Coville –
It’s been more than fifteen years since I read this book. I couldn’t even
remember the title of the book. I remembered the story, the characters and
surprisingly several lines from the book. Google is a wonderful thing. When a
story stays with you for that long there’s no way it shouldn’t be on this list.
^_^
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