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[tigriswolf]

 So, what was your favorite childhood book?  Or your favorite kid book? 

(There is a purpose to this.  It involves helping children learn how to read.  So tell me!)

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[jelloh0530.livejournal.com]

Ok, I was a serious booknerd as a child - but if I have to name a favorite, it'll be "The Velveteen Rabbit", every time.

I'd never "lived" in a book before. I'd never thought about death, or what happens to those who are left behind. It was one of those books that was read at the right time in my life, and it dramatically changed the way I viewed things. I was 7 or 8 at the time, and I sobbed reading it - I only saw the negative, I think, and I never read it again until last year when I found a very old copy of the book and bought it for my 5 year old son. I re-read it, aloud to him, and it STILL made tears well up in my eyes - and his.

It's just a beautiful little story with so much to teach children about life.

Wow, your flist has awesome powers of memory.

Or insane google-fu.

*eyes the books that they were reading at 6 years of age*

But yeah, by 8, girls usually have read their first (2nd or 3rd) books by Madeleine L'Engle and Beverly Cleary, some "Superfudge" and other Judy Blume books. My father was very strict on what I was allowed to read (total freaking loon), and I wasn't supposed to read anything that didn't look nice. Fairy books, horror stories, etc.etc., but R.L. Stine was a favorite of mine when I got a bit older, and I WOULD have liked it around 2nd or 3rd grade, lol. Same goes for the Narnia books and other series like that.

But... still.

At 7 or 8, my favorite book in the world was "The Velveteen Rabbit".

[tigriswolf]

That's on the list, for sure. I still have my Velveteen Bunny toy.