Could be the book you loved the most, the series you daydreamed about, book that inspired you, fascinated you, your comfort read…anything.
And why.
I LOVED the Anne McCaffrey Pern books. I would walk around daydreaming about new adventures set in the books’ world. The Dragonsong books really connected my love of music with my love of fantasy (and animals).
Hmmm, it’s a toss-up between Anne of Green Gables and Narnia. Anne, because she truly did feel like a “kindred spirit” and still does, but Narnia…
I got The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe for free one year from Scholastic because I had ordered so many books! I took one look at the cover and the title and tossed it in a corner. It looked SO stupid. Cut to me a few months later coming around to it when I was out of other things to read and deciding to give it a try, omfg.
Everything about Narnia fed my imagination in the best possible way. I was too young to care about the allegory, I just loved the story so much and would not stop until my parents had bought me all 7. I lent my cousin my original copy of LWW because I wanted to share my favorite thing, and she abused it so badly that when she gave it back, it was unrecognizable. All bent and stained, and I absolutely bawled because she had hurt something that i loved SO much.
Is it my favorite now? No way, but as a child, that series definitely fired up my mind in all the best ways that a book can.
My third-grade teacher read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe aloud during class. I was transfixed. I devoured the rest of the series before fourth grade and my fourth-grade teacher gave me her personal copy of The Hobbit. As soon as I was done, she had to convince my mother to let me get an adult library card so I could check out the rest of the series. Nothing could stop me.
May the gods eternally bless Miss Howard and Miss Johnson for their wisdom and generosity.
I was obsessed with The Horse and His Boy as a child.