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Mine would have to be The Weirdstone of Brisingamon - Alan Garner. I have probably read this book more than any other! At least 10 times. Buy it and read it. You'll love it!

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after our performance a bunch of little kids were in awe of the size of my bassoon. Appogg

Stig of the dump.

And another book I can't remember its name, the story of some kids in a Southern English coastal town during WWII, but it was very good.

Mrs T uncovered her old copy of Stig of the Dump a few weeks ago! Wonderfull book!

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after our performance a bunch of little kids were in awe of the size of my bassoon. Appogg

I don't recall any single book in isolation.

I was raised mostly on Blyton's Secret Seven and Famous Five series, then Malcolm Savile's Lone Pine series, which probably left the deepest impression on me. An under-rated writer in my opinion.

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Krabat by Otfried Preussler

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Are we talking more Young Adult and less kid lit? If so, I have lifelong love affairs with A Wrinkle in Time, all of LeGuin's Earthsea series, and Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain. Sadly, each of these astonishing 'verses have been recently bastardized by corporate adaptations; I blame my bad eyesight on accidentally catched two minutes of Disney's Wrinkle debacle.

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What is the porpoise of existence?

Far too many to mention - I was always reading. All the staff at the Public Library knew me very well and were worried if I didn't show up one week

However Brisningamen made me remember another book by Alan Garner - Elidor.

I also must mention the Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis, Enid Blyton's Five, Six and Seven - and a load more (quite crappy most of them honestly) an of course Vicke Vikingby Runer Jonsson. They're obviously planning some German-Japanese movie. I prefer EWK's pictures of the star sprouting smart ass viking kid.



This is a Czech edition.

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I always loved Hank the Cowdog by John R. Erickson and Dr. Seuss.

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A: Fish.

Erm, I dunno if anyone else has ever heard of it, but "The Bunjee Venture" by Stan McMurty.

Yeah, odd, I know.

I just remember reading it over and over again. I managed to get hold of another copy about 6 months ago.

Dr. S.

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Going a bit younger than the aforementioned Krabat there are a couple major influences way back when:

Enid Blyton's Adventure series (that's probably where my love for animals stems from)

Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time

Jules Verne's many novels

Astrid Lindgren's Pippi and Bullerby stories

Max Kruse's Urmel and Lion series

Michael Ende's Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver books

Karl May's Western and Oriental stories (most read book would have to be Old Surehand 2 which I have in this cuddly edition)

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oh, a toughie... there are so many i loved! outstanding, still, i think, is Astrid Lindgren´s "The Brothers Lionheart" for me. for the mature subject told for a child´s perspective, death and courage and adventure, without ever patronizing.
actually, that goes for all of her books.
more:

"Winnie the Pooh"
"Momo" and "The Neverending Story" by Michael Ende
"Krabat" is also a big favourite, but i´d say that´s definitely for the young adult section

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Oh, I used to love Hank the Cowdog! Those books were so funny.

I've read a lot ever since I learned how. I used to love Diana Wynne Jones' books and Diane Duane's Young Wizards series. I read The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin an absurd amount of times. I loved Joan Aiken's books- the ones about Dido Twight and the Mortimer ones particularly. I was a Harry Potter fan.

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Ooh! You've heard of them! I was never sure if they were popular everywhere or if it was just a Texas thing. Cool beans!

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"Madness is the first sign of dandruff." - Dr. John "Winston O'Boogie" Lennon

"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in imaginary violence." - Paul Rudd in Role Models

Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fish.

The library in my parent's home town has tons of audio books. One of the series they carried quite a bit of was Hank the Cowdog. It was the first time I'd ever heard of it, but we enjoyed them pretty well. Both girls enjoyed them pretty well. My oldest is almost 10 now and this was back when she five or six.

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The audiobooks were very cool. Read by the author with different voicces for all the characters, plus songs!

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"Madness is the first sign of dandruff." - Dr. John "Winston O'Boogie" Lennon

"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in imaginary violence." - Paul Rudd in Role Models

Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fish.

They were brilliant, I used to listen to them whenever I was sick to cheer myself up. I've still got about 30 of the books, haha. Sometimes my family will start reminiscing about Hank and Drover and Pete the Barncat.

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