Children's Books you still love to read

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Posted: 18 years ago
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What books that you read as a child do you still love to read today?...Plzz do answer

Mine are:

The Indian and the Cuboard series by Lynne Reid Banks: I've only read the first four books, just recently discovered that a fifth book had been released, and loved them. (Even though I'm 23 now, I would still like to get that last book! ^-^).

LOCH by Paul Zindel: This was a fun, and freaky, read when I was a kid. Zindel draws on his scientific background in this story of Luke Perkins, 15, nicknamed "Loch" after claiming to see a lake monster as a little boy. He and his younger sister, Zaidee, join their oceanographer father on an expedition searching for enormous prehistoric creatures sighted in Lake Alban in Vermont. Their leader, Cavenger, is a ruthless despot who would just as soon annihilate as preserve the Plesiosaurs, water beasts thought to be extinct for over 10 million years. The siblings and Cavenger's daughter befriend Wee Beastie and help it and its family escape to safety; Dr. Perkins, who has been diminished in his own and his childrens' eyes by selling out his ideals in his need for money, redeems himself. The book is really about what makes a family, whether human or creature, as Loch and Zaidee adjust to their mother's death and help their father regain his self-respect.



The Woman in the Wall by Patrice Kindl:Exceedingly shy Anna, 14, narrates her life story. When she is seven, her mother tells her she must go to school. The school psychologist arrives at the run-down family mansion only to mistake Anna for a doll and somehow ends up with her in her purse. This is enough to impel the child to hide in a secret room she has readied overnight by putting up a false wall in the family library. Over the years, she adds new rooms, passages, a kitchen, peepholes; and no one notices. Although she continues repairing, baking, and sewing as her family requests, gradually her mother and older sister, Andrea, choose to forget her. When one of Andrea's ignored admirers sticks a love letter addressed to "A" into a crack in the stairs, Anna answers it, thus setting in motion a chain of events that lead to her discovery. This was a cute and entertaining book for me, I'm so glad I picked it up and read it all those years ago.

And ofcourse all the fairy tales!!I still adore them😳

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Posted: 18 years ago
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I like to read The Famous Five series,and yeh all the fairy tales.😃😆

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Posted: 18 years ago
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I love to read fairy tales, like Cindrella and sleeping beauty, and enid blyton's stories like faraway trees, wishing chair etc! 😳
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Posted: 18 years ago
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the boxcar children series! 😊 😊
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Posted: 18 years ago
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all books by enid blyton...i can read and reread them. the mallory towers series, the st clares series, the naughtiest girl series..the lot!!

then ofcourse are the fairy tales. .

hardy boys, nancy drew, biggles, jennings all of them...i can read and reread!!! any time!!!! all the time!!!! 😆 😆
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Posted: 18 years ago
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My favorite is still Abol Tabol (nonsense rhymes) by Sukumar Ray. His writings never get old.
Also I like the illustrated Disney classics. The pictures are so vibrant in color. The ones that have pop up pictures are fun.
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Posted: 18 years ago
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Yeh your right samir_soni I also love illustrated Disney classics!!!!!!!!!!!!!👏.

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Posted: 18 years ago
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Originally posted by: samir_soni

My favorite is still Abol Tabol (nonsense rhymes) by Sukumar Ray. His writings never get old.
Also I like the illustrated Disney classics. The pictures are so vibrant in color. The ones that have pop up pictures are fun.

oo rimu i love abol tabol too....u know just yesterday one of my friend sends me this pics

^^

reminds me of one of the poem of sukumar roy....Rimu, you know what I'm talking about??...Hash chhilo sojaru one... Any Sukumar fans out here by some freak chance?...but whats the name of the poem??..."Khichuri"....i guess.....

Am lucky to came across it when am little.

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Posted: 18 years ago
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I like Animal Farm. A classic.
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Posted: 18 years ago
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Originally posted by: angel_wings

oo rimu i love abol tabol too....u know just yesterday one of my friend sends me this pics

^^

reminds me of one of the poem of sukumar roy....Rimu, you know what I'm talking about??...Hash chhilo sojaru one... Any Sukumar fans out here by some freak chance?...but whats the name of the poem??..."Khichuri"....i guess.....

Am lucky to came across it when am little.

Such a precious picture. THank you for posting it. Mind if I save it?

Yeah it was Khicuri. And also don't forget Patro chai, khuror kol, bhalo chele etc etc.

Shunecho ki bole gelo sitanath bondo?

Akasher gaaye naki tok tok gondho?

Tok tok thake nako hole pore brishti

Tokhon dekhechi chete ekebare Mishti 😆

Why did he die so young? He could have seen Satyajit grow up and writing for us.

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