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From: Constance Ross <cross>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:10:18 -0500
OK, I'm going to burst out of my finely woven cocoon of comfortable silence and observation. I've been watching and reading from the sidelines for quite awhile now, and never have a comment, because I never have the time to read the chosen book/topic/author. Until now! You've hit a topic I can relate to! Classics!! I'm going to be brave and send this before I read any of the other comments out there already.
I'm 43 and not embarrassed to admit it. I've been a librarian for only 9 years (here at Madeline Island Public Library) but I've been a bookworm all my life! My personal favorites for children are: anything fiction by Madeleine L'Engle. I started out with "A WRINKLE IN TIME" and "MEET THE AUSTINS." I literally grew up with Meg and Vicky, as i read these books. I have read and re-read all the L'Engle books I can get my hands on. I introduced these books to my children, and they have been as enchanted as I. My girls are 20 and 16.
I also loved:
(published before 1970)
THE CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE (1960) - George Selden
HARRIET THE SPY (1964) - Louise Fitzhugh
PLANET OF THE APES (1963) - Pierre Boulle
(a really good book, made into a thoroughly dreadful
series of movies)
(published before or during the 1950's)
THE NARNIA CHRONICLES (195056) - C. S. Lewis
THE HOBBIT &
LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy (193855) - J.R.R. Tolkein
MY FRIEND FLICKA (1941) and it's sequel
THUNDERHEAD (1943) - Mary O'Hara
THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND (1958) - Elizabeth George Speare
THE WILLIAMSBURG NOVELS (194357) - Ellswyth Thane
(DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT, EVER AFTER, HOMING, KISSING KIN, LIGHT
HEART, THIS WAS TOMORROW, YANKEE STRANGER)
(published before the 1930's)
BAMBI (1928) - Felix Salten
HEIDI (1927) - Johanna Spyri
PRISONER OF ZENDA (1894) - Anthony Hope
EIGHT COUSINS (1874) and it's sequel
ROSE IN BLOOM (1876) - Louisa May Alcott
(I much prefer these to Little Women.
I re-read them every few years.)
What's the common thread in this list? These are books that wove themselves into the fabric of my life. I discovered at an early age that books can take you, like a flying carpet, to other times, transporting you just as easily to the historical past as to the imagined future. Books can make you laugh, make you cry, make you starry-eyed with new love, make you thoughtful, and be so satisfying, that you go back, again and again, and re-read them. I have read all of these books more than once. They thrilled me just as much for the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time as the first time I read them. I read them in childhood, I read them as an adult.
Beverly Booth Beverly A. Booth cross at mail.badgerdial.net Madeline Island Public Library P.O. Box 65 La Pointe, WI 54850 715t7662
Received on Fri 11 Jul 1997 09:10:18 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 09:10:18 -0500
OK, I'm going to burst out of my finely woven cocoon of comfortable silence and observation. I've been watching and reading from the sidelines for quite awhile now, and never have a comment, because I never have the time to read the chosen book/topic/author. Until now! You've hit a topic I can relate to! Classics!! I'm going to be brave and send this before I read any of the other comments out there already.
I'm 43 and not embarrassed to admit it. I've been a librarian for only 9 years (here at Madeline Island Public Library) but I've been a bookworm all my life! My personal favorites for children are: anything fiction by Madeleine L'Engle. I started out with "A WRINKLE IN TIME" and "MEET THE AUSTINS." I literally grew up with Meg and Vicky, as i read these books. I have read and re-read all the L'Engle books I can get my hands on. I introduced these books to my children, and they have been as enchanted as I. My girls are 20 and 16.
I also loved:
(published before 1970)
THE CRICKET IN TIMES SQUARE (1960) - George Selden
HARRIET THE SPY (1964) - Louise Fitzhugh
PLANET OF THE APES (1963) - Pierre Boulle
(a really good book, made into a thoroughly dreadful
series of movies)
(published before or during the 1950's)
THE NARNIA CHRONICLES (195056) - C. S. Lewis
THE HOBBIT &
LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy (193855) - J.R.R. Tolkein
MY FRIEND FLICKA (1941) and it's sequel
THUNDERHEAD (1943) - Mary O'Hara
THE WITCH OF BLACKBIRD POND (1958) - Elizabeth George Speare
THE WILLIAMSBURG NOVELS (194357) - Ellswyth Thane
(DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT, EVER AFTER, HOMING, KISSING KIN, LIGHT
HEART, THIS WAS TOMORROW, YANKEE STRANGER)
(published before the 1930's)
BAMBI (1928) - Felix Salten
HEIDI (1927) - Johanna Spyri
PRISONER OF ZENDA (1894) - Anthony Hope
EIGHT COUSINS (1874) and it's sequel
ROSE IN BLOOM (1876) - Louisa May Alcott
(I much prefer these to Little Women.
I re-read them every few years.)
What's the common thread in this list? These are books that wove themselves into the fabric of my life. I discovered at an early age that books can take you, like a flying carpet, to other times, transporting you just as easily to the historical past as to the imagined future. Books can make you laugh, make you cry, make you starry-eyed with new love, make you thoughtful, and be so satisfying, that you go back, again and again, and re-read them. I have read all of these books more than once. They thrilled me just as much for the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time as the first time I read them. I read them in childhood, I read them as an adult.
Beverly Booth Beverly A. Booth cross at mail.badgerdial.net Madeline Island Public Library P.O. Box 65 La Pointe, WI 54850 715t7662
Received on Fri 11 Jul 1997 09:10:18 AM CDT
