Showing posts with label top ten. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Top Ten Childhood Favorites

Jamie and Julia at The Broke and the Bookish posted their (combined) Top Ten Childhood Favorites. Here are ten of my favorite books for young folks that I've found as an adult.
  1. Miss Rumphius ~ by Barbara Cooney, 1982, children's, 10/10
  2. The Paper Bag Princess ~ by Robert N. Munsch, 1980, children's, 9/10
  3. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon ~ by Grace Lin, 2009, children's, 9/10
  4. Blueberry Girl ~ by Neil Gaiman, 2009, children's, 10/10
  5. Bridge to Terabithia ~ by Katherine Paterson, 1977, children's, 9/10
  6. The Lorax ~ by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Suess Geisel), 1971, children's, 10/10
  7. On My Honor ~ by Marion Dane Bauer, 1986, YA fiction, 10/10
  8. A Wrinkle in Time ~ by Madeleine L'Engle, 1962, YA fiction, 10/10
  9. The View from Saturday ~ by E. L. Konigsburg, 1996, YA fiction, 9/10
  10. The Breadwinner ~ by Deborah Ellis, 2001, YA fiction (Afghanistan), 10/10
These are from my own childhood:
  1. Little Black Sambo ~ by Helen Bannerman, 1899, children's, 10/10
  2. Uncle Wiggily and His Friends ~ by Howard R. Garis, 1939, children's, 8/10
  3. Aesop's Fables ~ by Aesop, 10/10.  (According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the fables were written by a slave named Aesop, who lived in Ancient Greece during the 5th century BCE.  That means it was around even back in my childhood, in the 1940s.  This cover, of course, is much newer.)
Added 12-8-11
Which book on my Top Ten list would I have to take out to put in this one I just remembered?

Out of My Mind ~ by Sharon M. Draper, 2010, YA fiction, 9/10