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Turtleneck Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 5:10 PM |
| The Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater. I love the message of this book. Follow your dreams and let other people do the same. If you happen to find yourself in a library, I highly recommend it and it's a quick read. |
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Lemon Grinner Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 5:14 PM |
| Morris Tells Boris. I dunno who wrote it, but it's quality. |
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mili Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 5:49 PM |
| I love Moomintroll/Moomin valley books by Tove Jansson (the original ones, not the shortened Japanese versions). My dad read them to me when I was small, then I read them on my own and later for my children. |
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Helen *the original* Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 6:16 PM |
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
It's actually been made into a film that's out in June Clicky click
Also, Goodnight Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian and The Tiger Who Came To Tea!
I could go on and on about children's books, i love them |
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Turtleneck Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 6:30 PM |
| We just read Cowboy & Octopus last night, which I thought was very cute. They tried so hard to be friends. |
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dee Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 6:51 PM |
Helen *the original* wrote: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
we had a lecture from him during a cultural week in college. he didn't come across as the nicest of men.came across as very arrogant.
the next day we had a talk from a concentration camp survivor.
huge contrast. |
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Helen *the original* Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 7:05 PM |
| Aww that's a shame because its a fantastic book, it really gets into the child's point of view of a terrible situation and not knowing what's really going on or the pronunciation of things. It almost reminded me of the way To Kill A Mockingbird is written and that is my favourite book of all time. |
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Moray Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 7:18 PM |
Mine's The Hobbit. It's like my comfort book, if that makes sense? If ever I'm going somewhere away, for work or travels, and it makes me nervous, i take the Hobbit with me for company. It's like a security blanket of mine.
I'm a huge huge Harry Potter fan also.
Yeah, SSSSUPERGEEK! |
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megg_inc Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 7:26 PM |
| 'Harry Potter' and 'Chronicles of Narnia' are obvious. Also, the Moomin books and 'Through A Glass, Darkly' by Jostein Gaarder. One of my fav books ever! |
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Helen *the original* Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 7:26 PM |
Aww a comfort book, that's a great thing to have! Never heard of anyone doing that before
Ooo don't get me started on Harry Potter! I love those books, there's a girl reading them in my library at the moment so we keep talking about them and how great they are. I'll be reading them in order again soon no doubt! |
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Peewee Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 8:45 PM |
dee wrote: Helen *the original* wrote: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
we had a lecture from him during a cultural week in college. he didn't come across as the nicest of men.came across as very arrogant.
the next day we had a talk from a concentration camp survivor.
huge contrast.
We had the official opening of the book over here at my library. Part of The One Book Project. We had school kids in doing drama reinactments of the book and reading out poetry oh and parts of the book. He seemed nice enough but "boring". Personally I didn't think much off the book and told the organisers that people either seemed to love it or hate it. She asked me what I thought.... I said I hated it, hated the style of writing etc. She liked my honesty, luckily a few of the others then agreed with me. haaaaaa |
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Peewee Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 8:55 PM |
I love kids books too :) Fortunately I have to read one each month as part of my kids reading group (9-13yr olds).
Personal favs:
Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree
Malory Towers
Michael Morpurgo - Private Peaceful (made me cry).
Jostin Gaarder - Through A Glass, Darkly. (LOVED that book too)
E. B. White - Charlotte's Web
C. S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe.
Carolyn Keene - Any Nancy Drew Book! lol
Lemony Snicket - Series of Unfortunate Events.
Ohhhhhh there many ;) |
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TK23 Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 9:30 PM |
Peewee wrote: I love kids books too :) Fortunately I have to read one each month as part of my kids reading group (9-13yr olds).
Personal favs:
Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree
Malory Towers
Michael Morpurgo - Private Peaceful (made me cry).
Jostin Gaarder - Through A Glass, Darkly. (LOVED that book too)
E. B. White - Charlotte's Web
C. S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and The Wardrobe.
Carolyn Keene - Any Nancy Drew Book! lol
Lemony Snicket - Series of Unfortunate Events.
Ohhhhhh there many ;)
Nancy Drew all the way! I have about a bazillion hardcover copies that belonged to my mom when she was a little girl, and I still pick one out to read every now and then. Definitely 'comfort books', for sure! |
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TK23 Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 9:30 PM |
| eek double post |
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I Came in Through the Bathroom Window Posted Fri 28 Mar, 2008 9:50 PM |
MoraySwan wrote: Mine's The Hobbit. It's like my comfort book, if that makes sense? If ever I'm going somewhere away, for work or travels, and it makes me nervous, i take the Hobbit with me for company. It's like a security blanket of mine.
I'm a huge huge Harry Potter fan also.
Yeah, SSSSUPERGEEK!
I have a comfort book too!
It used to be Cartas Para Julia (Letters To Julia), a book by an argentinian author, but now it's Harry Potter, mostly 3, 4 and 5.
When I can't sleep because I had a nightmare or I'm a bit scared or worried, I start reading one of those books, especially Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix.
And when I was a kid I was a big fan of Roald Dahl and The Little Vampire series by Angela Sommer-Bodenburg. |
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