{"id":368,"date":"2011-09-07T22:57:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T21:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pinkoddy.wordpress.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2017-11-12T23:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T22:04:03","slug":"books-books-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/2011\/09\/07\/books-books-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite books from Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Children today don’t seem to read like they used to. I think this is due to the fact that they have more than 4 channels of tv to watch and the boom of the internet and computer games. Maybe I’m just unlucky to have children that haven’t got the thirst for reading that I had as a child.<\/em><\/p>\n

Well it got me to thinking which books have we all enjoyed?<\/em><\/p>\n

\"children<\/a><\/p>\n

I loved Roald Dahl<\/a> – in particular The BFG, Matilda, The Twits. Charlie and the chocolate factory – especially good in my younger years.<\/em><\/p>\n

A.A.Milne Winnie the Pooh<\/a> – still have lots of books including a complete works – on the bookshelf.<\/em><\/p>\n

C.S.Lewis<\/a> – I did read all the chronicles of Narnia starting with the Lion, The Witch and the wardrobe.<\/em><\/p>\n

Judy Blume<\/a> – especially Forever (which I remember the school banned us year ones (now year 7) from reading after we were all queuing up to read it and they found the bit where she meets “Ralph” – bit thumbed that page I think.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0and Letters to Judy: What your kids wished they could tell you – both helping with that growing up period.<\/em><\/p>\n

My teenage years included reading a lot of Mills&Boon<\/a> & Jackie Collins<\/a> – in fact I think I wanted to be the next Jackie Collins when I was 14 so read lots of them.<\/em><\/p>\n

Adrian Mole<\/a> – have read the older ones as I aged too. And any other diary type books – with just a thirst for trying to read more Adrian Mole like books.<\/em><\/p>\n

Books I read at school for English and enjoyed are Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice<\/a>, William Shakespeare Hamlet<\/a>, Thomas Hardy\u00a0Tess of d’urbervilles<\/a>, Harper Lee To kill a Mockingbird<\/a>, Charles Dickens Great Expectations<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am sure there are many many other great books that I read as a child that were important to me and will kick myself I have forgotten them, but these books are part of the reason I love to write.<\/em><\/p>\n

Have any of them inspired you? Do you have your own favourite childhood book list? Are there any you don’t agree are that great? Is there one particular – or several – books you wish more children would read – or would just like to share how great you think it is?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Children today don’t seem to read like they used to. I think this is due to the fact that they have more than 4 channels of tv to watch and the boom of the internet and computer games. Maybe I’m just unlucky to have children that haven’t got the thirst for reading that I had … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4241],"tags":[240,295,352,615,903,1392,1425,1864],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/books.jpg?fit=300%2C224","uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/books.jpg?fit=300%2C224",300,224,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/books.jpg?resize=150%2C150",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/books.jpg?fit=300%2C224",300,224,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/books.jpg?fit=300%2C224",300,224,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/books.jpg?fit=300%2C224",300,224,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/books.jpg?fit=300%2C224",300,224,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/54.155.211.39\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/books.jpg?fit=300%2C224",300,224,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"pinkoddy","author_link":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/author\/pinkoddy\/"},"uagb_comment_info":5,"uagb_excerpt":"Children today don’t seem to read like they used to. I think this is due to the fact that they have more than 4 channels of tv to watch and the boom of the internet and computer games. Maybe I’m just unlucky to have children that haven’t got the thirst for reading that I had…","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pepM9j-5W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/54.155.211.39\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}