Childhood Book Meme

Got this from Joanna at FriendSheep. Here's the rap: list 5 books that played an important role in your childhood and explain why. I don't know about you, but books were a big part of my childhood so I can't narrow this down to five. There are also books I can't remember the title or author of, but here are some that come to mind:

The Children of Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren (Joanna reminded me of this one), Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield, A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright and a bunch of other books by Elizabeth Enright. I also read and reread the Cathy books by Catherine Woolley and the Betsy books by Carolyn Hayward and the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder and Lois Lenski's books. There was also a biography of Louisa May Alcott that I took out of the Plainville Public Library a bunch of times.

Why did I like these books? Well, they were mostly about girls and I always loved to read about girls, especially smart and pretty girls who were having adventures. Also most of them were about the past, a time that I always thought I would be much better suited to living in than the present. I would read these books over and over wishing my life could be like the girls' lives in these books.

Labels: reading

posted by Miss Rachel 2/07/2007 06:43:00 PM

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