Favorite Childhood Books

timspalding : Scared me.

aulsmith : I liked the elephant and the boa constrictor, but then I lost the thread.

ahef1963 : In grade 13 French we spent an entire term - five months - reading this in French and it dragged on forever. Now I loathe it.

SaintSunniva : I have never liked it - too weird, too scary, the queen, the cat, the hookah...Alice herself.

ahef1963 : Not a huge fan of it. I found it more creepy than anything.

Drapetsona: one of my favourite childhood books. I still know so many poems out of it

Drapetsona: one of my favourite childhood books. That was how I learned to know Brecht, and I still think that it contains some of his best works

Drapetsona: This is the complete Homer in a great adaption. I am still a fan of Fühmann

sturlington: Duplicate

ahef1963: I didn't read this until I was in my 40s, but loved it just the same.

Drapetsona: Great book of my childhood, although very creepy. Couldn't sleep after reading it, but I had to go on...

Drapetsona: When I finally came to read it after having collected so much bubble gum pictures of the Disney movie, I found it astonishing and very adult. I loved it. Favourites: Rikki Tikki, the little seal and the elephant boy.

ahef1963: Not a book I would give to children; I find it frightening even as an adult, but I enjoy it nonetheless.

sturlington: My father read it aloud to me when I was 5 or 6. It's a wonderful memory.

Drapetsona: actually, I never read it as a child. I wish I had.

Drapetsona: This was really scary to read as a child