Oh, not revealing too much at all! I love to know what books people loved as kids. My favorites were always The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper--still read those about once a year, but there are a lot of others I just have to keep around now as well. Joan Aiken, Diana Wynne Jones, Zilpha Keatley Snyder. My friend surprised me a few years ago by finding me a copy of Robinshugh which I didn't even discover until I was in college and a friend told me how much she loved it as a kid.
Thinking back I'd say the main things I looked for in a book were orphans and boarding schools--couldn't get enough of those. If they had parents I was very skeptical. ;-) I also loved ghosts and kids who got thrown back in time--Charlotte Sometimes, Courtyard of the Stone Children--John Bellairs, Robert Peck's "Blossom Culp" books. ::sigh:: Such great stuff out there. I have particularly fond memories of ones I discovered at camp, I think.
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Date: 2003-07-14 05:50 pm (UTC)Thinking back I'd say the main things I looked for in a book were orphans and boarding schools--couldn't get enough of those. If they had parents I was very skeptical. ;-) I also loved ghosts and kids who got thrown back in time--Charlotte Sometimes, Courtyard of the Stone Children--John Bellairs, Robert Peck's "Blossom Culp" books. ::sigh:: Such great stuff out there. I have particularly fond memories of ones I discovered at camp, I think.