2007-01-02 09:37:58 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Hans Christian Andersen's Stories for children. I cried my eyes out each time I read "The Little Match Girl" and the original version of "The Little Mermaid" who, unlike Disney's, does not get her prince. I was truly enchanted by all fairy tales, and sadly only discovered Oscar Wilde's later, as I happened to be born abroad, but I devoured "One Thousand and One Nights", Grimm's and Perrault's Fairy Tales, and I was terrified by Baba Yaga in the compendium of Russian Stories. I still have the books, very battered, and I occasionally pull them off the shelves for a bit of nostalgia.
Visually, I absolutely adored Margaret Tempest's illustrations for "The Little Grey Rabbit" books written by Allison Uttley, in which I learnt English. I hunted all the books down one by one as an adult for my daughter, and, now they have been reprinted, I have bought them for my baby grand-daughter to read to her when she can understand, as they are delightful.
2007-01-02 19:48:04 · answer #1 · answered by WISE OWL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One Hundred Million Francs by Paul Berna
(translated from the french)
The Racketty Street Gang
(cant remember the author - but set in Sydney Australia just after WW2)
I also read the Encyclopedia Brown, Famous Five, Secret Seven, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys and Trixie Belden series
2007-01-02 11:29:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I liked The Little Prince and The lion the witch & the wardrobe too (and they made me cry) I also liked The swish of the curtain by Pamela Brown - about children setting up their own theatre & reread it many times (I wanted to be an actress when I was a child).
2007-01-02 09:47:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Gruffalos Child
2007-01-02 09:51:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Box of Delights, John Masefield
2007-01-02 09:39:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read and re-read the first two Adrian Mole diaries from age of 11 til about 15 and laughed every time.
2007-01-06 05:47:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Flying in the House. I don't recall who wrote it. That was when I was really small. Later I liked the Alanna series by Tamora Pierce, and the Tripods Trilogy by... John Christopher?
2007-01-03 13:05:36 · answer #7 · answered by Bluesky 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I loved the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder and the Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis. Those two series were my favorites in elementary school.
2007-01-02 09:54:20 · answer #8 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Little Prince
2007-01-02 09:39:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Elric of Melibone by Michael Moorcock
2007-01-02 11:10:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋