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What were your favorites books during childhood? Or maybe children’s books you read after growing up.
When I was a kid, the first book I read was The Little Prince (I think I was around 9 or 10), the drawings are so lovely (I liked to draw the elephant inside the snake/hat thing lmao) and I thought the story was cool. My mom used to read me some chapters from am illustrated version of The Jungle Book before sleep when I was little (plus those classic tales like Pinocchio and such). I also read a couple of the “Sitio do Picapau Amarelo” book series, which is super famous in Brazil, by Monteiro Lobato, he was a great author, but I don’t know if his works were translated.
And what were some you hated?
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I think Where the Wild Things Are is totally overrated while better Sendak books like Higglety Pigglety Pop are underrated.
Madeline and Babar were some of my favorite picture books
but I remember reading a lot of nonfiction like Stephen Biesty, David Macaulay, and Eyewitness books
I do not get Enid Blyton at all. I heard she was banned by the BBC for being bad which I don't know is fair but I also kinda get. There is a not bad TV movie about her that makes seem her horrible but interesting.
Didn't take to CS Lewis as kid, I've been meaning to try again.
There is a lot as an adult I like but never read during childhood: Mary Poppins, Joan Aikens, Edith Nesbit, Moomins, William Pène du Bois.
Oh, and Harry Potter
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um i hated where the wild things are as a kid, and looking back it was more of a book ahout what adults think about childhood than an actual kids book
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