Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's topic is books I wish I had read as a child. I have always been a huge reader, but there were still books, classics and otherwise, that I missed. Other than Little Women, which I haven't gotten to yet, I read all the rest of these as an adult, but I know my younger self would have loved them! And just to make myself feel super old, some of these came out when I was already a teenager, so... yeah.
What children's books did you not read until you were an adult?
Harry Potter, for sure! I remember reading one on the train to work and I think it was a scene with the Weasley twins and it just set me off giggling, in the middle of a train, with this tome in my hand and trying to stay upright. Ah, the memoriies lol
ReplyDeleteI read it for the first time after college, and I was like, what was I waiting for?
DeleteI wish I had read Harry Potter, Narnia, The Princess Diaries, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables and Ella Enchanted too when I was a kid!
ReplyDeleteThey're all just so good!
DeleteSuch great books.
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I agree!
DeleteGreat list! Anne of Green Gables made my list this week, too. I loved Ella Enchanted, and I sometimes wish I'd read The Princess Diaries, too.
ReplyDeleteThe Princess Diaries was so cute.
DeleteI didn't read Little Women until a couple of years ago. Looking back I think I enjoyed it much more then, than I would have if I read it as a child. So it worked out.
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DeleteAhhh! I love so many of these. Harry Potter, Capture to Castle, Anne of Green Gables and The Giver are favorites of mine! I re-read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe last year with my son and it was fantastic! I always enjoyed Little Women too. I want to see the new movie! Great list!
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DeleteAll very good choices. In fact, if I'd just gotten to I Capture the Castle, your list would be my perfectly completed set (though I didn't get Chronicles of Narnia in until age 19).
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I didn't read Narnia until I was in my 20s!
DeleteOh, I would have loved The Princess Diaries had it been around when I was a kid/teenager. I would have inhaled that series back then. :)
ReplyDeleteMe, too! I think it came out when I was a teenager, but it wasn't really on my radar.
DeleteGreat list. I still haven't read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. I've seen many movie adaptations, but never read the books. I read Little Women, Little Men, and Jo's Boys as a teen, but I wonder what I would think of them now. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you, Cheryl!
DeleteHa! All of these books were not out, when I was kid (I'm old!). I did read the Narnia books, Anne, Little Women.
ReplyDeleteI'm old, too! I can't believe some of these books only came out in the last 20 years or so.
DeleteI read Harry Potter, Princess Diaries and The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe when I was a kid and enjoyed all of them. I never got into the rest of the Narnia books, for some reason I just didn't like any of the ones after that one.
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I've read the whole Narnia series, but The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is my favorite!
DeleteAnne of Green Gables, Harry Potter, and the Chronicles of Narnia have been on tons of lists this week.
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Yes, I've noticed that, too!
DeleteI tried reading Little Women as a kid but didn't get very far. It might have been the old-timey writing. I don't know if I'd like it more now, as I've read a lot of books with old-timey writing.
ReplyDeleteI read a lot of classics in my teens, outside of school reading, so the writing probably wouldn't have bothered me then!
DeleteOh I totally know I would've loved The Princess Diaries as a 7th or 8th grader!! Good list!
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DeleteGood list--I love many of those. I didn't read any but Little House in the LH on the Prairie books until I was an adult. I also didn't read Anne of Greengables etc till I was a grown up.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I finally read Anne of Green Gables!
DeleteAnne is very popular today. I wish I had read that one as a kid. I think I would have seen a lot of myself in that character.
ReplyDeleteAww! I think Anne is a character you can't help but love.
DeleteI read one of the Anne books, but it was one my mom wanted not me, so I didn't really get into the series. I was more into Christopher Pike like horror at the time. I do wish I would have read the whole series now, though.
ReplyDeleteI've still only read the first. Honestly, when I was a teen, I was reading a lot of Stephen King!
DeleteWe were forced to read The Giver in middle school. The majority of the class hated it, but I loved it. 😄 Here's my Top Ten Tuesday List!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed it, too!
DeleteI wish I had read Harry Potter as a kid as well - it would have definitely been more magical then! I never read The Princess Diaries or Ella Enchanted, but I'm sure I would have LOVED these as a kid.
ReplyDeleteThey're just so cute! I know Harry Potter also has appeal for adults, but year, I think it would have had a huge impact on me as a kid!
DeleteI loved Harry Potter when I read it as an adult, but I know kid me would have been completely blown away by it.
ReplyDeleteI think I got more of the inside little joke things and names as an adult, but the pure magic of it would have been fun to experience as a kid!
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