Children's Books
Adults are way too snobby about children's books. Just look at how much people moan about J. K. Rowling's works! All too often we forget what it was that first got us reading, and reading the high-brow stuff we try to comprehend: cracking stories and laugh-out-loud jokes. Some of the best books ever written were kids' books, and time has made them classics. These are surely the classics of tomorrow. Long live children's literature, and long may I read and enjoy it!
1 - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett
2 - The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
3 - Shadow the Sheepdog by Enid Blyton
My copy is in an old blank yellow hardback and has been well-loved by all my uncles and aunt before me. It has great sentimental value to me. It was a gift from my Grandma and I cherish it, even though I haven't read it in years.
4 - Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans, illustrated by Ronald Searle
5 - The BFG by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake
6 - Winnie the Pooh, and The House at Pooh Corner, by A. A. Milne
7 - Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah
This poem used to make me spasm with laughter.
Grown Up Books
Well, this is what this blog is all about. Maybe it would be easier to tell you some of my (very extensive list of) favourite writers:
poet Ruth Padel
Thomas Hardy
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Angela Carter
poet John Masefield
Louise Erdrich
