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| theanonymousgeographer
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 Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject: Fave Childrens Book? |
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What is your favourite childrens book? I think that Famous Five kick ass in a funny sort of way 
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| doc_ido
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I have to narrow it down to one? I'm going to give my top five in no particular order:
- Fantastic Mr Fox (Roald Dahl)
- The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
- Flight Of The Solar Ducks (Charles Morgan)
- Where The Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
- Finn Family Moomintroll (Tove Jansson)
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| SimonM
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| The Redwall books by Brian Jacques were always my favourite as a kid - magical. |
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| higuy
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| Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| doc_ido wrote: | I have to narrow it down to one? I'm going to give my top five in no particular order:
Fantastic Mr Fox (Roald Dahl)
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I remember in a poll in year 6 in my primary school Roald Dahl came out as the runaway winner (ahead of R L Stine and Goosebumps!!) Fantastic Mr Fox was also my favorite but i also like The Twats or The Twits or whatever it was called.  |
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| ZiggyMarley
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| Biggles for me I must say |
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| meh
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| His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman.......incredible books |
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| JulienP
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Waiting for someone to mention these, they are also may favourite, hut for me they are not just kids books, they have adults ideas and themes, and I have re-read them as an adult, and still found them relevant and enjoyable!
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| jenc_green
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| I read all of Robin Jarvis' Deptford Mice and then anything else he consequently wrote. My favourite was The Place Between by Hugh Scott. |
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| ruthie
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the tiger who came to tea
where the wild things are
george's marvellous medicine
jojo lapin (french. read them!)
and pongwiffy
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| cataloocheecowgirl
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Tom's Midnight Garden... it's gorgeous. Very sad though.
Also, Treasure Island, His Dark Materials.
Oh yeah, and The Little Prince (a translation of a French Children's story) is absolutely beautiful. Would reccomend it to anybody.
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| Teapotboy
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| Rob
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The Jungle Book, because it had Rikki Tikki Tavi at the end of it. Awesome. That and this comic book version of The Hobbit which had better animation than anything marvel have done. Awesome.
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| jenc_green
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| te he he me too they were great, my friend called her hamster Hugo after Pongwiffy's familiar |
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| Toastcat
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| ruthie wrote: | the tiger who came to tea
where the wild things are
george's marvellous medicine
jojo lapin (french. read them!)
and pongwiffy |
Ditto on The Tiger who came to tea...a friend of mine bought it for me last Christmas when I got all misty eyed over a copy of it in Waterstones...it came complete with miniture tea pot, two cups and saucers with a lovely tiger's face on each one! Each cup probably held about a shot of tea (or whatever), but I was nostalgic for about a day...then I got bored with it.
I actually used to love Enid Blyton, although I fear she wrote for someone a little more upper-class than myself...never got to fulfill my dreams of playing lacrosse at a posh all-girls school...also loved the choose your own adventure books (tell me I'm not the only one who used to cheat on them...flicking to one ending then to another to see which one was better...) |
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| ZiggyMarley
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Hey you reminded me about "The Tiger Who Came To Tea". Can't remember the storyline but I remember I liked it. Someone remind me!  |
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