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).
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.
Yes this is such a great book. I loved it so much.
Too young for what?
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
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.
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.