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).

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    You all are too young. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George. This book has stayed with me so many years. Still foundational after 60 years.

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        1 year ago

        When I read this, the list of books all came out in my kids time. Of course, now it includes beautiful books from well before my time. Mea culpa

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      1 year ago

      I was thinking of it only yesterday and trying to remember how he prepared cattails. That book meant a lot to me growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, when the children and, especially, teens I knew were encouraged to have meaningful agency in our own lives.

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      1 year ago

      Every time I got in an argument with my parents I considered pulling a My Side of the Mountain. It’s a wonder I’m still alive as I have 0 survival skills and would never have made it.