Monday, January 25, 2010

Book Meme-- Young At Heart

For your entertainment, here is a book meme found on the 'Book Memes and Quizzes' LJ... I'll be posting these every so often. How do your answers compare to mine?

Below the cut lies the Telegraph’s list of 100 books every child should read. BOLD the books you've read. I got 24. What about you?

Part 1: Early Years
[ ] The Twits, by Roald Dahl
[ ] Burglar Bill, by Janet and Allan Ahlberg
[ ] The Tiger Who Came To Tea, by Judith Kerr
[ ] Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
[ ] The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, by Beatrix Potter
[ ] Yertle the Turtle, by Dr Seuss
[ ] Fungus the Bogeyman, by Raymond Briggs
[ ] The Story of the Little Mole Who Knew It Was None Of His Business, by Werner Holzwarth and Wolf Erlbruch
[ ] Room on the Broom, by Julia Donaldson
[ ] The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
[ ] The Cat in the Hat, by Dr Seuss
[ ] Charlotte's Web, by EB White
[ ] The Story of Babar, by Jean de Brunhoff
[ ] Winnie-the-Pooh, by AA Milne, illustrated by EH Shepard

Part 2: Middle Years
[ ] Stig of the Dump, by Clive King
[ ] Ballet Shoes, by Noel Streatfeild
(I haven't read it, but seeing this book reminds me of You Got Mail. :-)
[ ] Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones
[ ] Just So Stories, by Rudyard Kipling
[ ] The Borrowers, by Mary Norton
[ ] Struwwelpeter, by Heinrich Hoffman
[ ] The Magic Faraway Tree, by Enid Blyton
[ ] Danny, the Champion of the World, by Roald Dahl
[ ] George's Marvellous Medicine, by Roald Dahl
[ ] Underwater Adventure, by Willard Price
[ ] Tintin in Tibet, by Hergé
[ ] The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
[ ] Erik the Viking, by Terry Jones, illustrated by Michael Foreman
[ ] When the Wind Blows, by Raymond Briggs
[ ] Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by TS Eliot
[ ] The Iron Man, by Ted Hughes
[ ] The Owl and the Pussycat, by Edward Lear
[ ] The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
[ ] The Worst Witch Collection, by Jill Murphy
[ ] Peter Pan, by JM Barrie
[ ] Mr Majeika, by Humphrey Carpenter
[ ] The Water Babies, by Charles Kinglsey
[ ] A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett
[ ] I'm The King of the Castle, by Susan Hill
[ ] The Wave, by Morton Rhue
[ ] Pippi Longstocking, by Astrid Lindgren
[ ] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Roald Dahl
[ ] Bambert's Book of Missing Stories, by Reinhardt Jung
[ ] The Firework-maker's Daughter, by Philip Pullman
[ ] Tom's Midnight Garden, by Philippa Pearce
[ ] The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
[ ] The Silver Sword, by Ian Serrallier
[ ] Cue for Treason, by Geoffrey Trease
[ ] The Sword in the Stone, by TH White
[ ] A Wizard of Earthsea, by Ursula K LeGuin
[ ] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, by JK Rowling
[ ] The Chronicles of Narnia Box Set, by CS Lewis
[ ] His Dark Materials Box Set, by Philip Pullman
[ ] The BFG, by Roald Dahl
[ ] Swallows and Amazons, by Arthur Ransome
[ ] Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now, by Lauren Child
[ ] The Railway Children, by E Nesbit
[ ] The Selfish Giant, by Oscar Wilde
[ ] Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
[ ] Just William, by Richmal Crompton
[ ] Jennings Goes to School, by Anthony Buckeridge
[ ] Comet in Moominland, by Tove Jansson
[ ] The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket

Part 3: Early Teens
[ ] Call of the Wild, by Jack London
[ ] Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
[ ] The Outsiders, by SE Hinton
[ ] I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith
[ ] The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, by Joan Aiken
[ ] To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee - Sorry, don't care for this title...
[ ] Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
[ ] The Owl Service, by Alan Garner
[ ] The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
[ ] Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
[ ] The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
[ ] Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, by Mildred D Taylor
[ ] A Kestrel for a Knave, by Barry Hines
[ ] The Hobbit, by JRR Tolkien
[ ] War Horse, by Michael Morpurgo
[ ] Beowulf, by Michael Morpurgo
[ ] King Solomon's Mines, by H Rider Haggard
[ ] Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
[ ] The Road of Bones, by Anne Fine
[ ] Frenchman's Creek, by Daphne Du Maurier
[ ] Treasure Island, by RL Stevenson
[ ] Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott- Still trying, but it counts!!!
[ ] Anne of Green Gables, by L M Montgomery
[ ] Junk, by Melvin Burgess
[ ] Cider With Rosie, by Laurie Lee
[ ] The Go-Between by LP Hartley
[ ] The Rattle Bag, ed by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
[ ] The Song of Hiawatha, by H W Longfellow
[ ] Watership Down, by Richard Adams
[ ] The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
[ ] True Grit, by Charles Portis
[ ] Holes, by Louis Sachar
[ ] Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
[ ] My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell
[ ] Coraline, by Neil Gaiman
[ ] Carrie's War, by Nina Bawden
[ ] The Story of Tracy Beaker, by Jacqueline Wilson
[ ] The Lantern Bearers, by Rosemary Sutcliffe

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