Today’s Top Ten Tuesday topic is Top 10 Books From My Childhood (Or teen years) That I Would Love To Revisit.
To re-read myself:
- The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
- Baby-Sitting Is a Dangerous Job by Willo Davis Roberts
To re-read with my kids:
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
- Homer Price by Robert McCloskey
- The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery
- The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
- The Green Book by Jill Paton Walsh
I’m linking up: 
A BIBLIOPHILE'S STYLE 
I love The Princess Bride! It’s my all-time favourite. I managed to re-read it about 2 weeks ago! I’ve never read The Neverending Story but I’m planning to at some point this year.
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It’s been ages since I read either of these but my husband bought me beautiful hardback copies last year and I can’t wait to read them!
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Omigosh – the cover to that Babysitting book is just priceless! Brings me back to my days as a bookworm huddled over the new books stack in the library circa 1985. Wow!
The Story Girl – why have I never heard of this?! Some L.M. Montgomery fan I am! Must put on queue!
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I know, right?!? I purposely included the cover I remember from childhood. 🙂
There’s a sequel too – The Golden Road. These two are the books that the TV series Avonlea is based on. Did you ever see it?
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On PBS? No, I don’t think I have. And it’s not on Netflix. Sigh…although, I guess this is a good thing since all my anime watching is really taking up a lot of my time. [insert sheepish grin here]
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No, it aired on Disney channel back in the early 1990s. I only got to watch it at other people’s houses. 😛
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Oh, The Secret Garden! I loved that one. I think that’d be a perfect one to reread with your kids!
My TTT!
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I’m planning to read it with them this summer. 😀
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I don’t think I even read The Secret Garden until I was a teenager, but I loved it! Now I want to read it again… My TTT!
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I remember trying to read it at 7 or 8 and struggling with some of the dialogue (especially Dicken’s) but I gave it another shot a few years later and loved it!
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I loved Neverending Story, too…though I was an adult when I read it.
Great list. Love, of course, Homer!
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I’m pleased to hear you enjoyed Neverending Story as an adult. I’m looking forward to re-reading, but there’s always a sense of trepidation when revisiting a book you haven’t read in years.
Thanks! Homer Price is the best!
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I can’t believe I forgot to include The Hero and the Crown and The Blue Sword – I need to re-read them right now! I’ve not read The Neverending Story but I just bought it on Audible yesterday:). I loved the movie and am interested to see how different/same the book is.
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McKinley is such a favorite – I try to re-read a few of her books every year. It’s been ages since I read Neverending Story, and I LOVED the movie as a kid (Atreyu was one of my first crushes). From what I remember, the film is only the first part of the book and the book actually follows Bastian as he makes his wishes.
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Wonderful list! I did love Homer Price and its sequel; they always made me laugh. I still have a copy on my children’s book shelf. I love The Blue Sword, but didn’t discover McKinley until college. And don’t kill me, but I really didn’t like The Outsiders. I’d been a pretty sheltered kid, and gone to a rural elementary school; The Outsiders was a real shock to my system. If it hadn’t been assigned by my middle school (small-town/suburban), I woudn’t have finished it.
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Homer Price is very funny – I especially enjoy the sheriff’s spoonerisms. 🙂
McKinley was a highschool find for me. I practically lived in the YA fantasy section of the library!
I think I enjoyed The Outsiders precisely because it was shocking. I had a sheltered childhood too (homeschooled), and found the book on my own in my early teens (maybe even as young as 11-12?) after seeing part of the film at a neighbor’s house. I remember really loving that Ponyboy held on to hope even after truly horrible things happened to him.
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Aside from The Outsiders, I was pretty fond of The Princess Bride growing up; especially as I came across it while learning about history/medieval times. I might not have necessarily read it but the film was pretty solid!
Cheers,
Joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts.
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Yep, The Princess Bride film is a great example of a well done adaptation, probably because William Goldman is a screenwriter and wrote the adaptation himself. 🙂
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