I apologize again. This past week was my second week of my first full-time job, so I’m still trying to figure out my time management for when I’m at home. As a result, I’ve been neglecting my blog, at least comparatively to pre-job conditions.
The last Top Ten Tuesday theme was a “pick your own” type adventure š But when I was looking at some friends’ blogs, I found Michelle had chosen to do a post about her favorite childhood reads. And I thought that was a great idea for a post. Like Michelle, I read a lot as a kid and I loved it when it was storytime at school. I am copying Michelle, and making a list of my ten favorite books from my childhood.
In no particular order…
The Search for Delicious by Natalie Babbitt
- The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Edwards
- any Roald Dahl books, really
- Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
- the Wayside School books by Louis Sachar
- the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
- the Alice books (at least the first few) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- any of the Dear America books
- The Rain Catchers by Jean Thesman
the BSC series by Ann M Martin
live through books... 
So many wonderful books! Talk about a trip down literary nostalgia lane! I haven’t read some of those books/authors in years (roald dahl and the sideways stories especially) but with all these great posts floating around about those favorite childhood books, I’m thinking it’s time to pay them a visit again! Thanks for a great post!
Isn’t it fun to look back?
Oh god, I *LOVED* Ella Enchanted. It was THE book of my childhood. I think I read it like fifty times, my copy is all old and battered. When I saw this new edition of it recently, I seriously debated getting myself a new copy haha, but there’s something about having an old copy — the first copy you read — that brings happy memories to mind š