And not just your own, but the ones your kids are reading and loving, too.
For me? It was Laura Ingalls Wilder, Tolkien, and a whole lot of Ann McCaffrey for a big chunk of my younger reading life. But also about a bazillion others, including Trixie Belden (a sassier version of Nancy Drew, I always thought), The Secret Garden, Mandy, and a whole host of others.
What was perpetually on your childhood bookshelf? Do tell...
(Gorgeous photo of a Cleopatra butterfly via ferran pestaña.)
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I was, and am, a fan of all things Dr. Seuss. I also loved fairy tales which I found out later were the cleaned up versions of those penned by the Brothers Grimm. I was into the Nancy Drew mysteries and was even more intrigued by the Dana Girls, sisters who solved similar mysteries while living at a boarding school. And I, weirdly enough, liked science books, especially those that showed the inside of anything, whether an onion or a frog or whatever.
I ditto your recommendations of The Secret Garden and Tolkien!
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