vicki595 | Thoughts of reading...

I can't belive you didn't mention Biggles! I mean, he was HUGE!

And I read The Magic Faraway Tree.

And I even watched the Famous Five TV show - I thought Anne was cute. (I even remember the theme song!

We are the Famous Five,
Julian, Dick and Anne,
George and Timmy the dog
I read a couple of Secret Seven books, though they were aimed at younger kids.

I loved Knight Crusaded by Ronald Welch.

And those great historical novels by Rosemary Sutcliff, like The Eagle of the Ninth. Watched the TV series for that, too! ;)

I didn't read a whole lot before hight school, but TONS and TONS afterwards. I even read the entire Lord of the Rings when I was in year 8 in a single weekend! Including The Hobbit!

I never read Biggles.

I read The Magic Faraway Tree too, and its sequels.

I watched the Famous Five, when it was on, which wasn't that often.

I read Secret Seven.

Don't recognise teh other two, but i've not read Lord of the Rings, and really have no desire to. I started it... but I didn't get past the prologue. Oops?!

I never read Biggles.

Well they really were more boys books.

I didn't get past the prologue. Oops?!

Ah well, I guess it's not to everyone's taste.

I watched the Famous Five, when it was on, which wasn't that often.

Were/are they making new ones? Or was it repeats of the same ones I saw in the 70s?

Not that I remember the show all that well, but it is why I started buying the books. And other Enid Blyton ones as well -- there was one called Circus Days Again that I must have reread a dozen times. I think it was part of some sort of circus series, but it was the only one I had. I had about half a dozen Famous Five books, I think.

Not too shabby for only being in the country for three years. ;-)

In addition to The Witch of Blackbird Pond...

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Chronicles of Narnia
Alice in Wonderland
Black Beauty
Trixie Belden mysteries

:: glances at own icon, *facepalm* ::

Er, and various Oz books.

*giggles* I will actually confess to never reading the Oz books. I really should...

I've not heard of The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and the Trixie Belden mysteries before. Are they primarily American books, if you know what I mean?

Ticola, how have you not heard of Mrs Frisby?? Tsk! I thought that book was compulsary reading in most primary schools. They even had a cartoon. Nice poll by the way. To me, Flambards is a theme park. Oh, they had a Drayton Manor advert on tv today!

Um, I've not heard of it. And it wasn't in mine. Unless I read it several years before everyone else got to that stage of compulsory reading, and as such, do not recognise the title. That's possible.

I didn't tend to watch that many cartoons. Unless they were Disney.

Flambards is not a theme park. I'm disgusted at you. Yiou can get the first one here

I've not been to Drayton Manor in years. Oh well. Disney World/Orlando Studios/Busch Gardens = much cooler! :D

I've not heard of mrs frisby either.

I didn't tend to watch that many cartoons. Unless they were Disney.

Close -- The Secret of NIMH was one of the first features Don Bluth did when he left Disney. Possibly the first; it came out around 1983 or so. It's a rather loose adaptation, but a nice little film.

*nods* Blackbird Pond is a YA-level historical, written in the 1950s IIRC. The main character is a well-off English girl who was raised by her grandfather on Barbados (think Elizabeth Swann, but about a hundred years earlier and on a different island). So when she goes to live with her aunt in colonial Connecticut after he dies, day-to-day Puritan life is as foreign to her as to a modern reader -- and she's just as likely to get into trouble. (Hence the "witch" part.)

Mrs. Frisby was the popular book (along with Bunnicula) when I was in 4th-5th grade (age ~ 9-10). Think Flowers for Algernon for kids, but from the mice's pov. *g*

Trixie Belden is more or less the American equivalent of the Famous Five -- mysteries/adventures featuring a group of teenage friends in upstate New York. The series started in the early 1960s, I think, and it's still around, but it's always played second fiddle to Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys in popularity. I always liked it better, though, because they were actually kids, who had to deal with kid things. Nancy Drew had a job and a boyfriend and all that grownup stuff, and I just didn't relate to her at all.

Noel Stretfeild wrote the Ballet Shoes stuff right? I can't remeber if I've read those - I know being recced them, but no idea if I did. Consequently, I ticked nothing in that box, XD.

Yes, she did. And a whole other series of books which got termed "The Shoe Series", even though the original titles had nothing to do with shoes.

I can lend you Ballet Shoes when I get back to the UK if you want to read it?

Possibly. I do like kids books =D

I think I must have read it, but if I steal yours, then I can figure out if I actually did XD

I like kids books also :D My dad's accusing me of regressing with them ;)

Heee! No problems!! It's one that's taken me ages to get around to reading it... finally went screw it and bought a copy... thankfully in a charity shop, so I didn't really spend "real" money :D

Hey! Those are books mentioned in You've Got Mail! *is a sucker for RomanticComedy!Tom Hanks*

Heeee! Yes they are

*loves that film*

Although my favourite Tom Hanks RomanticComedy has to be Sleepless in Seattle.

*sighs*

I love that film so so much!

While I did own a few of the books in the list. I never read them or just started them and got bored. Some I have never heard of.

I think I read more children's books now than I did when I was a kid...

All of the books in the list are ones on my shelves, and that I've read and either adored or just enjoyed over the years.

I'm rereading a lot of children's books at the moment... seriously regressing here! *g*

You know I didnt start likeing t read until I was in 5th grade... Had a friend in 4th who kept trying to get me to but it didnt take until the next year. *g* Now Im not happy if Im not reading something! XD

I've always loved to read, ever since I, y'know, actually learnt to read and stopped memorising the books and pretending to read *g*

I've got about four books started at the moment... oops?!

I had problems reading, in 3rd grade I started going to special ed. classes for reading and spelling [from 3rd to 6th grade] ^^()

I'm special! :P

I've always read lots, and now I always have at least 2 books on the go, at the moment I have 3 with a big pile awaiting, but holiday soon so can read then, in between running in and out of the sea *g*

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