I would say mine is the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. My teacher read it to the class in third/fourth grade and I fell in love with it. It might be because I loved dolls and stuff like that and related to Abilene. I loved seeing Edward going on all of this adventures and I believed for the longest time that he was like a character in Toy Story. I think my favorite part was when he was with this brother and sister. Although many people don’t like it due to its non-kid friendly topics (abuse, manipulation, death),the book just reminds me a simpler time in my life and when I just started to realize reading was fun.
That’s such a good book! For me it’s The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall. Being an only child, I loved escaping into a world with a big family and so many sisters. The writing was so descriptive, I could picture myself running around the groups of the mansion with the girls. I also saw myself myself in Jane, a bookworm who wrote her own stories. I only read 3 out of the 5 in the series before I grew out of them, but I’d love to read the last 2 as an adult to feel all the nostalgia and good vibes😊