Childhood books

[amishfurniture]

I think about this book from time to time. Oof. I may have to buy it...

It held me captive as a child. It was released in 1972.

I tried to find as many pictures from inside and try to piece them together as I could, and it has several different covers.















I also read Stephen King. I think I read Cujo around this age. My grandmother encouraged reading and kinda like with the television she didn't give a shit what I read as long as I was reading.

[Lisnaholic]

That looks like a really fun book, with great illustrations full of interesting little details. I really liked the instructions from Bap about how to make the bread. Also the bit about the wasps that escaped, "There were only three that got away" - so of course every reader looks for them, and there they are in the drawing!

In terms of book illustrations, I still remember some by Beatrix Potter: Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle at her ironing, and the innocent abroad, Jemima Puddleduck, unwittingly at risk with Mr.Fox-



... but in the space of about 5 years, I'd outgrown the humble farmyard and moved on, via Narnia, to Gotham City:

 

[amishfurniture]

I think I read this when I was in 6th grade. Where I come from that's the middle school grade above primary school and before high school.

I loved this book.

Stay gold Pony Boy...

[Lisnaholic]

John Wyndham was really good at conjuring up apocalyptic/sci-fi worlds and then telling an exciting story in them, all packed into about 200 or 300 pages. Each one was a short, exciting, stand-alone novel, just great for a young reader, and (aged approx 12 to 17) I had several of his famous ones in this format:



...but a couple in this more modern reprint too:-

The later books didn't seem so exciting though: either JW had used up all his best ideas (*ahem* The Midwich Cuckoos), or perhaps I'd just outgrown that type of fantasy by then.

[SGR]

I guess I'll be the first to mention this one