Nov 26, 2020, 6:15 PM
@VulgarKitten Where the Sidewalk Ends was my jam.
Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books
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@VulgarKitten Where the Sidewalk Ends was my jam.
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@Herja
I will never get rid of them
Edit: can't figure out how to get the pic to show but it's just a boring picture of my books
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@Derp I don't think so... that isn't ringing any bells. But it does look pretty cool and I'm adding it to my to-read mountain.
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@VulgarKitten said in Favorite/Most Memorable Childhood Books:
Did no one else read Shel Silverstein or Roald Dahl??? Paper Bag Princess ftw. Also, back then 'Sick' (by Silverstein) was just funny but now I truly get it.
Oh shit, how could I have not said?
Yeah, Silverstein never really clicked for me--something about it just... rubbed me wrong. To the point that I felt vaguely uncomfortable when the books were being read aloud to the class in elementary school. I have no idea why; they're hilarious, but I just really disliked them. ("Ways in which @insomniac7809 was a weird kid: 5729/???")
I loved Dahl, though. Although looking back, out of the two, he was significantly more disturbing.
Oh, and I'll own up to it: the Weiss & Hickman Dragonlance series, and (to a lesser extent) the Salvatore Drizzt novels.
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Silverstein was never a part of my childhood really. My parents never introduced it to us. School didn't. And when I did finally come across them... I was either too old or it just didn't fit I guess.
Of Dahl however, oddly it's his autobiography that always stuck with me the most. I was probably eleven or twelve when I read it.
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I read several Dahl books as a child, but never really glommed onto them. They didn't feel as relatable to me as, I dunno, No Flying in the House or whatever.
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I was never into poetry as a kid, but when I became a teacher Silverstein's were THE poetry books to have in your classroom so of course when I inherited them they stayed.
Last year I did a poetry unit with my higher readers (3rd grade acting on 5th/6th grade levels) from one of my favorite literacy sites that was all about finding the themes in Shel Silverstein's work. That's when I finally //got// it. Their poems are silly and wacky, but when you look past the silly, so many are about being a child in a world of adults. Reading it through a child's eyes (aka, my students) gave me such a deeper appreciation. I'll keep those books always in my library now and introduce them to my own kids if I'm ever able to have them.
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Childhood?
Young adult? Heinlein's juveniles.
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One of my favorite books my nana got me was And Then A Harvest Feast by George Dennison. It is about a group of city animals who get tired of that life and move out into the country together and all the hard work they put into their new lives. It is such an endearing book and I suggest anyone who can get a copy (it is a Kindle book) and read it. Read it to your kids if you have kids and hell, read it yourself if you don't. It's so adorable and such a feel good book, I promise you won't regret it.