For some reason, while driving Bella home from school today, I started thinking about this book I remembered loving when I was around 9 or 10. I couldn't remember what it was called, but I remembered it had lizards and a kid (don't know why
this stuck with me) who loved Walter Cronkite. I did a quick google search, and quickly came up with the name: I
loved this book when I was young. Then I started thinking about other books I remembered loving. was one of them. About a boy learning how to be blind, learning how to read braille, work with a seeing eye dog. It was
such a great book. And of course, the
original (the only one until they turned it into a franchise(!)).
This then brought me to thinking I should start making lists of all the books I want the girls to read, that I loved, when I was young. (Okay - I'm NOT going to Amazon link to all of these, because I'm just going to list what comes into my head). These are the books that turned me into the voracious reader I am today. So I started a list...
ANYthing by Beverly Cleary (the Ramona books, Henry and Ribsy, Otis and Ellen et all) My mom read these books, loved them and passed them on to me.
ALL Judy Blumes (oh man, how I loved, read and re-read these books growing up) Blubber!, Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, (We must! We must! We must increase our bust!), Fudge, Freckle Juice, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, etc., etc.
Anything Shel Silverstein (although the girls already have most of these already)
great old-fashioned reading.
(Dancing shoes, skating shoes, ballet shoes, theater shoes) I'd probably re-read these again.
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Books
Bridge to Terebethia
(read this one over and over)
Little Women
Madeleine L'Engle books (Wrinkle In Time, Wind In the Door, Swiftly Tilting Planet)
Anything Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr. Fox)
Little Princess and the Secret Garden
Any E.B. White (Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little)
Chronicles of Narnia
(This book had a huge impact on me when I was growing up)
Harriet the Spy
...what books am I missing??