Books that you loved as a child.

[jonesy]

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- Where the Wild Things Are - which is just the best illustrated kid's book ever;

My two year old loves it. We recently found a hand puppet that looks just like one of the wild things.

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- Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the The Moon of Gomrath - a similar idea to Cooper's but even richer and darker and far better written - Alan Garner has since written two of my favourite adult novels, Strandloper and Thursbitch, he is a master or words;
- Ursula le Guin's Earthsea sequence - they have a kind of austere, lonely beauty which appealed to me and still does - I read The Other Wind, the fifth and probably final one, when it came out recently and it was extraordinarily moving;
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Yes, I enjoyed those two authors as well. Another Garner book I liked was Elidor. The Owl Service was strange- possibly intended for a slightly older readership than the others?

I haven't yet read the Other Wind and I didn't know Garner had written adult novels. I'll investigate one of these days...