I still read the warrior cats books by Erin Hunter. The story is surprisingly deep and the characters are varied and interesting. Funny thing is i've been reading this series since 2nd grade, hah.
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I would like to add another vote for Roald Dahl. Very funny and awesome when you're a kid, but really quite disturbing when re-reading them as an adult. I remember my mum loving Revolting Rhymes for his take on Red Riding Hood specifically the line "The small girl smiles/Her eyelid flickers/She whips a pistol from her knickers/She aims it at the creature's head and BANG! BANG! BANG! she shoots him ... dead."
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, A Series of Unfortunate Events and Roald Dahls stuff. If I end up looking after kids I'll probably traumatise them.
I had a copy of the 11th hour for years before I gave it to my younger cousin. It's a puzzle book where your suppose to figure out who ate all the food and it's actually pretty cool from what I remember.
I had a copy of the 11th hour for years before I gave it to my younger cousin. It's a puzzle book where your suppose to figure out who ate all the food and it's actually pretty cool from what I remember.
There's a Finnish series of children's books called 'Heinähattu ja Vilttitossu' I used to read as a kid and me and my mum still do.
They're just very funny books, about two girls, and their parents and the two neighbours. Also two cops who most of the time have nothing to do.
They're just all normal people but just bizarre and neurotic enough to feel real.
The one that's probably my favourite is the Christmas-book, and a lot of the stuff in it cracks me up because it's so familiar and makes fun of that stuff.
Like how the mother goes through all the Christmas cards they got, and makes a list of who they sent a card, and who sent them one.
"We sent them a card this year, they didn't sent us one. Take them off the list."
"Oh look what a nice card. And since we didn't send them one this year, let's send them a really nice one next year, definitely not one of those free ones."
They're just very funny books, about two girls, and their parents and the two neighbours. Also two cops who most of the time have nothing to do.
They're just all normal people but just bizarre and neurotic enough to feel real.
The one that's probably my favourite is the Christmas-book, and a lot of the stuff in it cracks me up because it's so familiar and makes fun of that stuff.
Like how the mother goes through all the Christmas cards they got, and makes a list of who they sent a card, and who sent them one.
"We sent them a card this year, they didn't sent us one. Take them off the list."
"Oh look what a nice card. And since we didn't send them one this year, let's send them a really nice one next year, definitely not one of those free ones."
I just found my copy of that.Rebel_Raven said:... *Grin*
And the rest of the series.
Sleep well.
The Phantom Tollbooth makes me lose my shit every time
And The Giving Tree
And I still love Roald Dahl
and The Thief of Always by Clive Barker
Neil Gaiman's decent at children's books that I still enjoy too.
And I just read A Series of Unfortunate Events (I swear my local library must think I'm reverting to childhood mentally since I checked out a bunch of children's books and am now doing a bunch of YA literature.....)
OH! The Mary Poppins series *looks longingly at the 4 books I have* those are good books.
And naturally The Hobbit (since it was technically written as a children's story)
Woah. Someone else read those books? I thought that series had never been noticed by anyone. I remember i picked up the first one from a secondhand book shop down the coast whilst staying with my grandparents. Got hooked instantly and finished it in a day (stayed up reading it under the bed covers that nightSarah Kerrigan said:
). Hell, those books are still sitting on bookshelf downstairs. Sadly, never finished them - i finished the original series and one of the mangas, then just outgrew them, i guess.
Books I still own (to this day):
-Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
-The Hardy Boys series (Books 34, 52, 56... Yeah...)
-The Phantom Tollbooth (Both the book and the movie were boss as fuck!)
-Guys Write What Guys Read (This was the book that made me realized "Avi" was a guy... *facepalm?*)
-Freddy in Peril (Hamster on the run!)
-I Was a Rat!
-Rover Saves Christmas (Them chapter titles...)
-Ramona's World
-The Boyds Would Be Boyds series (Books 1, 2, and 4)
-The Magic Tree House series (Only the first 15... isn't there, like, 40+ books in that series and counting?)
-The Captain Underpants series (Still collecting that series to this day... The series is still going, right?)
-Cam Janson (I have NO idea how this series was numbered, to be honest...)
-The Nintendo Choose Your Own Adventure Books (Super Mario Advance and Zelda: Oracle of Seasons[footnote]And, yes... They basically chronicle the entire game of the same name...[/footnote])
-The Horrible Harry series (Again... ANOTHER series I have no idea how this series was numbered...)
-Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Have two copies with different covers on them...)
-The W.I.T.C.H series (Novelizations of the comic of the same name, which was them turned into a two-season show on Jetix...)
-The Deltora Quest series (D&D for kids?)
-Vegemorphs: The Fungus Among Us (A "parody" spin-off of the Animorphs series... which apparently was, in no way, affiliated with the Animorphs series in general...[footnote]So... It's basically published fanfiction at that point...[/footnote])
-Bunnicula (A red-herring for kids?)
-The Fall of Fergal series (Reading about the events that happen before, during, and after a kid falls to his "death"...)
-The Just series (A series of events about an asshole kid and his many ways of being an asshole to those around him, basically...)
-The Butt series (Written by the same author of the Just series about Butts taking over the world, I guess...)
-The Schooling Around series (I... barely remember this series, actually... even though its, again, written by the same author as the Just and Butts series...)
-The Nate the Great series (Another detective series for kids...)
-The Roller Coaster Tycoon Pick Your Path series (Still a HUGE fan of the video game series...)
-The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool (Fairy tale subversion for kids?)
and last, and the one I remember the most...
-The Gaurdians of Ga'Hoole series (Never gets old...)
Honorable mentions (because either I don't own a copy anymore or I never owned a copy in the first place):
-Anything by Roald Dahl
-Anything by Shel Silverstein
-Anything by R. L. Stine (even though the Goosebumps TV series use to creep me out more than the books at the time...)
-The A Series of Unfortunate Events series
-The Artemis Fowl series
-The Remnants series
-Anything by Dr. Seuss
-If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
-The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
-Where the Wild Things Are
(I was also going to mention the Harry Potter series, the Narnia series, or even The Hobbit and the LOTR series[footnote]That was a fun series to read at age 9...[/footnote]... but, that would be TOO obvious of a series, since we still read those series as adults, I guess...)
-Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism
-The Hardy Boys series (Books 34, 52, 56... Yeah...)
-The Phantom Tollbooth (Both the book and the movie were boss as fuck!)
-Guys Write What Guys Read (This was the book that made me realized "Avi" was a guy... *facepalm?*)
-Freddy in Peril (Hamster on the run!)
-I Was a Rat!
-Rover Saves Christmas (Them chapter titles...)
-Ramona's World
-The Boyds Would Be Boyds series (Books 1, 2, and 4)
-The Magic Tree House series (Only the first 15... isn't there, like, 40+ books in that series and counting?)
-The Captain Underpants series (Still collecting that series to this day... The series is still going, right?)
-Cam Janson (I have NO idea how this series was numbered, to be honest...)
-The Nintendo Choose Your Own Adventure Books (Super Mario Advance and Zelda: Oracle of Seasons[footnote]And, yes... They basically chronicle the entire game of the same name...[/footnote])
-The Horrible Harry series (Again... ANOTHER series I have no idea how this series was numbered...)
-Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (Have two copies with different covers on them...)
-The W.I.T.C.H series (Novelizations of the comic of the same name, which was them turned into a two-season show on Jetix...)
-The Deltora Quest series (D&D for kids?)
-Vegemorphs: The Fungus Among Us (A "parody" spin-off of the Animorphs series... which apparently was, in no way, affiliated with the Animorphs series in general...[footnote]So... It's basically published fanfiction at that point...[/footnote])
-Bunnicula (A red-herring for kids?)
-The Fall of Fergal series (Reading about the events that happen before, during, and after a kid falls to his "death"...)
-The Just series (A series of events about an asshole kid and his many ways of being an asshole to those around him, basically...)
-The Butt series (Written by the same author of the Just series about Butts taking over the world, I guess...)
-The Schooling Around series (I... barely remember this series, actually... even though its, again, written by the same author as the Just and Butts series...)
-The Nate the Great series (Another detective series for kids...)
-The Roller Coaster Tycoon Pick Your Path series (Still a HUGE fan of the video game series...)
-The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool (Fairy tale subversion for kids?)
and last, and the one I remember the most...
-The Gaurdians of Ga'Hoole series (Never gets old...)
Honorable mentions (because either I don't own a copy anymore or I never owned a copy in the first place):
-Anything by Roald Dahl
-Anything by Shel Silverstein
-Anything by R. L. Stine (even though the Goosebumps TV series use to creep me out more than the books at the time...)
-The A Series of Unfortunate Events series
-The Artemis Fowl series
-The Remnants series
-Anything by Dr. Seuss
-If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
-The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
-Where the Wild Things Are
(I was also going to mention the Harry Potter series, the Narnia series, or even The Hobbit and the LOTR series[footnote]That was a fun series to read at age 9...[/footnote]... but, that would be TOO obvious of a series, since we still read those series as adults, I guess...)
to be honest, they've gotten better. she's on a new series now-like a prequel how the clans actually started and such- and they are really fricken good.chocolate pickles said:Woah. Someone else read those books? I thought that series had never been noticed by anyone. I remember i picked up the first one from a secondhand book shop down the coast whilst staying with my grandparents. Got hooked instantly and finished it in a day (stayed up reading it under the bed covers that nightSarah Kerrigan said:
I've recently read a couple of Dr. Seuss books while working and found them pretty entertaining. I've also always been a fan of The Bearenstein Bears and Arthur series of books. I haven't read either of those in a long time though.
Well, when I was younger, I'd read these Chinese books.
Looking back on it, the plot was about the misadventure of 3 guys, involving aliens, drinking parties, and the military. I have no idea, but I think I would enjoy them immensely were I to read them now.
Actually entertaining though, Redwall. Is that even a children's series? Dunno, but I loved the hell out of them, although I haven't read the most recent 3~4 ish.
Looking back on it, the plot was about the misadventure of 3 guys, involving aliens, drinking parties, and the military. I have no idea, but I think I would enjoy them immensely were I to read them now.
Actually entertaining though, Redwall. Is that even a children's series? Dunno, but I loved the hell out of them, although I haven't read the most recent 3~4 ish.
I mostly remember those Bearstein Bears VHS specials as well as the Author TV series more than those series of books... Then again, I remember the Magic School Bus books (as that one PC video game involving rocks, I think) more than the TV series these days...Shoggoth2588 said:
