Courtesy of Shelly's Book Shelf, here's a meme about children's books.
Name your 3 favourite children's series.
This is where I confess I loved the tom-boy girl detective Trixie Belden. Throughout my childhood and into my early teens I used to save my pocket money and buy a new book in the series whenever I had enough money. If I remember correctly each book was 99c from my local supermarket!
Enid Blyton's Famous Five. I inherited the original red leather hardcovers from my mother, who was a great fan. I inherited a couple of Secret Seven books too, but never really liked them as much as Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog.
C.S.Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia. I fell in love with these books when I was about 7 or 8 years old and remember reading the entire collection one wintry holiday by the coast with my parents. In fact, I had to wait for my dad to read them first before they were passed onto me! Unfortunately, I waited until I was 30 before I treated myself to the boxed set, but when I reread them I was severely disappointed. The magic had definitely been lost and I couldn't see beyond the racism and sexism of the text.
Name your 3 favourite non-series children's books.
The Silver Crown by Robert C. O'Brien (I think I read this book about 15 times! Absolutely LOVED, LOVED, LOVED it!)
Z is for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien
The Children of Cherry Tree Farm by Enid Blyton (another one I read over and over).
Name 3 favourite children's book characters.
The Muddle-headed wombat from the books by Ruth Park.
Paddington Bear from the books by Michael Bond.
Trixie Belden
Feel free to put your answers in the comment box below, or simply post your own answers on your blog, and leave me a note so I can go check out your responses.
