*Tweet* Fifteen yards for unsportsmanlike conduct......

Okay, can we stop the name-calling towards people we don't even know?

While you guys fight your war, I'm standing in the middle of the battleground in no-man's land, bleeding inside.

Kid's books... a survey, sort of

My son's class has just finished reading one of my all-time favorite books from childhood, "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler." (I trace my love of art and art museums to wanting to run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art with the heroine...)

I love children's literature. I still occasionally reread "Little Women" and "Rose in Bloom" by Louisa May Alcott. I think Jon Scieszka is a genius: every intelligent adult I know who has read it falls into fits of laughter over "Math Curse". And "Clack Clack, Moo Moo: Cows that Type" by Doreen Cronin gives me a serious case of hysterical giggles.


So, my question is .... what are your favorite kids' books?

What books did you read as a child change your life?
What books were your favorite escapes?
What books did you discover as an adult which you wish you had known about when you were a kid? (A good friend in college, horrified that I had never read "The Phantom Tollbooth," once gave me a copy for my birthday. I loved it after the first five pages.)
What books do you recommend or buy for your children, nieces and nephews, or your friends' kids?

And any age range here... from "Where the Wild Things Are" and "Goodnight, Moon" to "The Chronicles of Narnia" and "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."

I'm interested in seeing what books affected people. Not to mention checking into ones I haven't read yet : >

I really really really screwed up.....

Unlike the last time I did something this stupid on LJ, I really did intend that post to be very nearly private. I thought I had set it up as such. Imagine my surprise when there were two comments on something that only one person besides myself was ever meant to see! (And both of them telling me it was a public post.)

I am so sorry.... firstly to the subject of the post, who I do love dearly and who is going to want to wring my neck over this, with very good reason.

I am also very sorry to everyone else who saw it.

Note to self: NEVER post anything with serious emotional content on LJ when you are this sleepy. And ALWAYS double-check your posts.