Ms DC |
My favorite book when I was
little was a Golden book called The Animals of Farmer Jones.
When I was old enough to get a library card, I fell in love with a book
about a family made of wood. The two boys went swimming and got warped,
and their father made them sleep outside with big rocks weighting them
down so they would get straight again. I also loved
The 500 Hats
of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss.
As I got older, my favorite chapter book was Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I also read every Nancy Drew mystery and every Landmark book I could get my hands on. My high school librarian introduced me to Georgette Heyer's regency romances, and I still like historical romances. I also like romances by Nora Roberts and Jayne Ann Krentz, mysteries by Susan Whittig Albert, the Mrs. Pollifax novels by Dorothy Gilman, and fantasy by Anne McCaffrey (I've always loved dragons). My son introducted me to Terry Pratchett, and I've read all 28 of his Discworld books. I like to collect books on gardening and recipe books, even though I don't like to cook. |
 Laurel |
Laurel's favorite book when
she was little was One Morning in Maine by Robert McCloskey.
She called it the Bucks Harbor book and insisted that I read it to her
every day. We used to borrow books from the Maine State Library's
Books-By-Mail program, and we read everything we could find by Dahlov Ipcar
and Barbara Cooney.
Her favorite chapter book was Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but she also liked books by Robin McKinley and Christopher Pike. When Laurel was in school she read all the time, in the school bus, in the car, when she should have been doing her homework ... and she still does. As an adult, Laurel reads romances and fantasy, all kinds of nonfiction, and several magazines such as Newsweek. Her brother introduced her to Terry Pratchett as well, and she finished reading all the Discworld novels during Christmas break in 2002. |
 Aaron |
Aaron's favorite book when
he was little was William's Red Shirt by M. Watts, about a boy who
has a shirt that keeps falling apart. He keeps taking parts of his
other clothes to fix the shirt. Aaron read this book over and over
again. He also loves Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice
Sendak.
His favorite chapter books were the Hardy Boys series, and he thinks he read all of them, even the ones where they they worked with Nancy Drew. These days, Aaron usually reads computer programming manuals like Running Linux: Second Edition. I wouldn't consider this relaxing, but he does! A novel he read recently was The Godfather by Mario Puzo. Now Laurel and Edward and I are trying to talk him into reading Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon. |
 Edward
|
Edward's favorite picture book was
Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss. In kindergarten he liked to bring
home recipe books. One of our favorites was A Dragon Christmas
by Loren Leedy, which has a great recipe for drop sugar cookies.
His favorite chapter book was an abridged version of The Three Muskateers by Alexandre Dumas, which he read over and over again. He also liked Bunicula by James Howe, Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, the Tintin books by Georges Remi, and Patricia Wrede's The Enchanted Forest Chronicles, a series about a princess and a dragon . Edward didn't like to read much when he was little--he'd rather be racing around on his bicycle with his friends--but as an adult he loves to read. He reads mostly fantasy. He has read all the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. Some of his other favorite authors are Orson Scott Card, Robert Heinlein, Elizabeth Haydon, Terry Brooks, R.A. Salvatore, and Michael Stackpole. |
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