Last night Larry and I watched The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It was cute, and it got me thinking about the first time I read The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. It was while we were living in England and my whole class read it together. We read it just before Christmas and when Edmund went over to the “dark side” for a piece of Turkish Delight my teacher, Ms. D, brought us all hot chocolate and sweeties. Which I suppose would make her seem like the White Witch but she wasn’t, she was awesome.
Anyway, Larry never read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and then disclosed that he can’t remember ever reading a book with his whole class. What a poor, deprived child! In response to this shocking news I started thinking about my favourite books from back in the old school days. I have a feeling some of these are going to make their way into our apartment soon!
- The Lion, The Witch and the Wardobe (C. S. Lewis)
- A Wrinkle In Time (Madeleine L’Engle)
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (E. L. Konigsburg)
- Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred D. Taylor)
And a few I wish were around when I was in school:
- Esperanza Rising (Pam Munoz Ryan)
- Star Girl (Jerry Spinelli)
- Fever 1793 (Laurie Halse Anderson)
- Boy Meets Boy (David Levithan)
- If You Come Softly (Jacqueline Woodson)
i loved watership down - that was definitely a jr. high fav!
I think it’s an irish thing. We don’t really do “let’s read together” here
Although Roll of Thunder… did feature in my school days.
Bridge to T. was the first book I remember crying at the end of! I also enjoyed reading, with my whole class, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM
‘The Hobbit’ and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ both read with the rather wonderful Mr Moss and both up there in my favourite reads of all time!
Bridge to Terabithia is one of my all-time favorites! I loved that book when I was a kid!
What about The Phantom Tollbooth?
I also loved pretty much every book written by Judy Blume.
A Wrinkle In Time. Growing up that was My. Favorite. Book. Ever. Of course Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret was also a classic girl tween choice