Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
As a child I enjoyed reading , as an adult my happiest times were bedside reading with my kids , what should take 5 minutes to put the kids to bed would become an hour long affair of reading a book , any book , everyone taking turns at a page each and this thread brought those memories backRe: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
I loved Anna Sewell's 'Black Beauty' when I was a kid.Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
Same here with my Grandkids....Danny is 6 now and he loves David Walliams books.Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
My reading books as a child were many and varied; the usual Beano and Dandy annuals for Christmas, Black Beauty, Robinson Crusoe, one entitled The Kon-Tiki Expedition I recall was fascinating. The one that most sticks in my mind though was Aesop's Fables, apparently there are over 700 of these fables. My grandfather had a copy of that book which I used to read whenever visiting, which was often.Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
When I was quite young my grandmother had an obscure Victorian weepie called Froggy's Little Brother by Brenda, the pseudonym for a minor member of the aristocracy, I believe. I must have read it several times and I reckon the utter injustice it described was what started me in a very Left of centre direction that has persisted to this day.Thread Tools | |
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