Thanks to everyone who shared their memories of their favorite book as a child in class today! Just a quick recap of the books that were mentioned and why:
Several students pointed to a book's use of humor, parody, and/or originality as reasons that made their favorite children's books so memorable, books like Dumb Bunnies and The Paper Bag Princess. Others talked about the personal relationships they shared with the physical book itself (that book that you just can't put down, like Holes and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) or with others, especially family members, who were also part of the childhood reading experience in some way (Anne of Green Gables, the Just So Stories. Some students reflected upon the themes that made a book a favorite--the enticing world where it rains ice cream in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, for example--and still others reminisced about the impact of the pictures in stories, like the metallic fish scales on the cover of Rainbow Fish.
Children's books make powerful impressions on us for a variety of reasons, and we invite you to share with us your own favorite books as a child and what made them so memorable.
Ditto what Allison said: thanks so much for sharing your story stories. I'm really starting to get a good sense of you all!
ReplyDeleteHere's a fun site from a Cleveland-area bookseller who offers a book identification service; it's specifically targeted for fleeting, fragmentary, sometimes impressionistic memories of books which a person has read long ago (like children's books! aha!). And it has an archives you can browse through!
http://www.loganberrybooks.com/stump.html