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posted 03-04-2008 12:09
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Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. The greatest children's book ever. I can recite the entire thing from memory.
The Voyage of QV66 by Penelope Lively. Fantastic in the anthropomorphism department and one of the most amusing post-apocalyptic novels ever written. The image of agressive packs of dogs roaming the street of Manchester singing football songs is quite vivid and Stanley the monkey is a wonderfully flawed hero.
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posted 03-04-2008 12:19
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Probably Biggles Fails To Return.
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posted 03-04-2008 12:20
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Tootles the Taxi. Proper old-school anthropomorphic cars.
And I adored the A.Mazing Monsters series as a child. Some amateurish artwork only added to the charm. I think I had the four original books - I certainly remember Webfoot, The Great Gulper and Wormball.
http://www.amazingmonsters.com/monsters/
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posted 03-04-2008 12:25
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GO - heh.
Wait, that's not actually a book, is it?
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posted 03-04-2008 12:32
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'Tis.
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posted 03-04-2008 12:37
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Go on. It sounds like a Monty Python sketch.
What's it about?
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posted 03-04-2008 12:37
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D'Aulaire's Book of Great Myths
All-Star Baseball
Winnie the Pooh (not a surprise, I know)
The "Landmark" series of American History books for "young adults"; there were more than 200. I read them all.
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posted 03-04-2008 12:38
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Blimey, GO, you were advanced. I wouldn't have called Frank McCourt a children's writer at all.
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posted 03-04-2008 12:39
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So you are a spiritual Winnipegger, Urs!
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posted 03-04-2008 12:40
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The House At Pooh Corner by AA Milne and EH Shephard (slightly controversially going for the sequel)
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How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsment by Russel Hoban and Quentin Blake
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posted 03-04-2008 13:00
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He's no Captain W.E. Johns...
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posted 03-04-2008 14:32
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Of late - The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. When I was a kid I read tons but can't really remember much. Didn't go for the classic series like CS Lewis, or much fantasy stuff. I liked stories about sullen, lonely kids. And the Pan books of ghost stories, the more grisly the better.
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posted 03-04-2008 14:40
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The Hounds of the Morrígan
The Three Royal Monkeys
every single Asterix book, but especially The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
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posted 03-04-2008 14:51
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imp wrote:
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I liked stories about sullen, lonely kids. Isn't it surprising when something doesn't surprise you...
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posted 03-04-2008 15:06
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Good call on Asterix, toro. Though I preferred the currently highly-relevant Obelix and Co, which is as good an explanation as any of the current sub-prime crisis.
Here's another question for the thread: Asterix or Tintin?
Tintin edges it for me, I think, but it's awfully close.
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