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ironymaiden19. Your favourite picture, junior fiction and Young Adult books
sentimental favorite picture book: Andy Ant by Pops Winky. it's unfortunately out of print (and goofily 70s in illustration style). it's the story of the very game but hapless Andy trying to find his place in society - he starts a job with good intentions, gets in over his head, and disaster strikes. eventually after much trial and error he finds the right fit and everyone is happy. thinking about it, it's kind of a crazy thing to have a comedy picture book about aguy ant choosing his career path and life's work, but there it is.
junior fiction: i was thinking about this, and it's difficult because i skipped past these books pretty quickly - once i started reading i went from zero to "sixth grade" in short order. and those books didn't get reread like YA books did. are Farmer Boy and Little House in the Big Woods junior fiction? if so, those. Farmer Boy is something my mother wanted to share with me so much that we read through it together even though i was able to read it by myself (and later IIRC we even tried to milk feed a pumpkin).
Young Adult: i don't even know where to start. part of my heart is always here - i think some of the best genre fiction being produced right now is on the YA shelf and i read quite a bit of it. if you're skipping them because they're "kids' books" you're missing out. i especially recommend Sabriel by Garth Nix and the Attolia books by Megan Whalen Turner. i've already talked about my relationship with Dragonsong and The Blue Sword elsewhere. maybe this is where i put Anne of Green Gables* or The Secret Garden?
*i read it sometime during elementary school (i remember it was before the miniseries hit and caused a wave of attention for the books) and i had the hardest time understanding that Canada was a different country. even with the different educational system, and the wacky order-an-orphan thing, and the bit where they talk about the American tourists. PEI might as well have been upstate New York. i think maybe that's where i imagined it was.
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sentimental favorite picture book: Andy Ant by Pops Winky. it's unfortunately out of print (and goofily 70s in illustration style). it's the story of the very game but hapless Andy trying to find his place in society - he starts a job with good intentions, gets in over his head, and disaster strikes. eventually after much trial and error he finds the right fit and everyone is happy. thinking about it, it's kind of a crazy thing to have a comedy picture book about a
junior fiction: i was thinking about this, and it's difficult because i skipped past these books pretty quickly - once i started reading i went from zero to "sixth grade" in short order. and those books didn't get reread like YA books did. are Farmer Boy and Little House in the Big Woods junior fiction? if so, those. Farmer Boy is something my mother wanted to share with me so much that we read through it together even though i was able to read it by myself (and later IIRC we even tried to milk feed a pumpkin).
Young Adult: i don't even know where to start. part of my heart is always here - i think some of the best genre fiction being produced right now is on the YA shelf and i read quite a bit of it. if you're skipping them because they're "kids' books" you're missing out. i especially recommend Sabriel by Garth Nix and the Attolia books by Megan Whalen Turner. i've already talked about my relationship with Dragonsong and The Blue Sword elsewhere. maybe this is where i put Anne of Green Gables* or The Secret Garden?
*i read it sometime during elementary school (i remember it was before the miniseries hit and caused a wave of attention for the books) and i had the hardest time understanding that Canada was a different country. even with the different educational system, and the wacky order-an-orphan thing, and the bit where they talk about the American tourists. PEI might as well have been upstate New York. i think maybe that's where i imagined it was.
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Date: 2011-05-10 02:23 pm (UTC)