[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: 30 Must Read Books for Kids

[Amanda Lewanski]

The Phantom Tollbooth.

--Amanda

Amy Z wrote:

> I don't remember too many of the picture books I read, though I did
> love The Snowy Day and everything else by Ezra Jack Keats--the art is
> so beautiful--and I'd put everything by Leo Lionni on the list.  I
> love collages.
>
> It's really odd how the lists are mostly U.S. authors, and how they
> are unknown in the U.K.  Why don't we read more of each other's
> children's books?
>
> Books I couldn't get enough of when I was a bit older:
>
> Laura Ingalls Wilder
> The Secret Garden, FH Burnett
> The Great Brain books, JD Fitzgerald
> the Mushroom Planet series, by Eleanor Cameron IIRC
> everything by Eleanor Cameron
> ditto Joan Aiken
> ditto Madeleine L'Engle
> the Earthsea Trilogy (now has 2 more books), Ursula LeGuin
> The Lottery Rose, Irene Hunt
> Sherlock Holmes
> The Return of the Twelves--don't recall the author, but it's about a
>   boy who discovers the Brontes' toy soldiers (?) and/or the stories
>   they wrote about them?  Really imaginative and terrific
> Mythology of all kinds, though I didn't discover the D'Aulaires `til I
>
>   was older: Edith Hamilton (Greece), Norse myths
> Bible Stories for Children retold by David Kossof--terrific, lively,
>   humorous retellings & illustrations
> Sal Fisher at Girl Scout Camp--don't ask me the author or why I read
>   it so many times, but I loved it
> The Moffats series by Eleanor Estes
> Half Magic by Edward Eager--it put me onto E. Nesbit, a bit too late
> Another series I didn't catch on to until it was too young for me was
>   Beverly Cleary.  I've read a few as an adult and would buy the lot
>   for any child I loved
> Narnia
> sea stories/mysteries by Howard Pease, which my dad loved as a kid and
>
>   recommended to me
> Mistress Masham's Repose, T.H. White--didn't discover that one `til
>   college & loved it
> Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander--I just reread half of The
>   Book of Three standing in the children's section of the library and
>   it was every bit as good as I remembered
> Cricket magazine, still going strong!
>
> Amy Z
>
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