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(Thunderbirds Are Go! 2004 Movie)

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[Top Gear]

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[Chris Hardwick]

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[Dylan O’Brien]

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[A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett]

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[Orphan Black]

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[Captain America Civil War]

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[Drakengard 3]

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[Doogie Howser, MD]

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Let's talk about your favorite books you read as a kid. What appealed most to you about these books? And did they ever inspire something else (i.e. using toys to play out scenes or imagining yourself like in the secret, etc.)?

Movies/tv/comics also acceptable.

One of my favourite books as a kid was No Flying In The House by Betty Brock. I used to try and kiss my elbow just in case I was part fairy. Also I read a lot of Enid Blyton boarding school stories and wanted to have weird British midnight feasts.

No Flying In the House made me wish my name was Belinda.

Watership Down. idk why, maybe it was just the worldbuilding for the rabbits. I read it about 30 times in 4th/5th grade alone.

since there was no such thing as rabbit action figures and stuffed toys were for babies, I sculpted my own "toys" out of plasticene clay. Hazel, Bigwig, Fiver, Dandelion, and maybe a couple others. They had a lifelong happy ever after when I played with them.

Watership Down is not a kids' book!

I liked books about animals (Black Stallion, Howliday Inn, Black Beauty, White Fang, King of the Wind, Hank the Cowdog) and Laura Ingalls Wilder books.

I used to imagine and dream about owning a horse all the time.

I almost forgot about King of the Wind.

For me as a kid I wanted escape. A Little Princess was big because Sara was a lot like me. Also Anne of Green Gables series. Both of the main characters in those were someone who was smart and with a big imagination who had a lot of crappy things happen to them but also had good things. So I related to them and imagined a good outcome for me like they got.

The Oz books were big. The fantasy, escape to this magical, perfect world that seemed fun.

Star Wars EU. I got into it first because they were some of the few English books I could find in Philippines bookstores that looked interesting to me. And I loved the Star Wars movies. I imagined myself in this universe a lot.

I liked the Sweet Valley books for a while. I think because my sister and I had issues at that time and the idea of having a twin who loved me and who got along with me as well as Jessica and Elizabeth got along appealed to me.

Heinlein juveniles were favorites. My dad read them to me when I was little. So those books were family and home for me.

I liked the Oz books a lot. I've met L. Frank Baum's grandson. He was a nice guy and delighted that I was familiar with the books and not just the movie.

I remember really liking The Unicorn Chronicles by Bruce Coville. It's been so long that I have barely any memories of it, but I have the feeling that Cara's thoughts and decisions felt like what I would do in the same situations. I also remember thinking that Beloved was a really cool villain.

I loved the first book, read it when it came out and read it over and over while I waited years for the next one. Maybe I'd grown up too much by that time, but I remember thinking book two was really dull and disappointing, so I didn't wait for the rest :( Did the series ever finish?

Eventually. Book 1 was in 1994; book 4 was in 2010. I should probably finish the series too.

Re: Inspired by #6

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I loved Into the Land of Unicorns. I always meant to pick them back up but I never did and I'm too old to enjoy them properly now most likely.

Bruce Coville was pretty old when he wrote them, so I don't think there's an age limit to read them.

I loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books as a child and we had an extra book about the series that included recipes for various foods mentioned in the books. I enjoyed baking the different treats.

I loved the Box Car kids, especially the first one (rather than the mysteries later on, which were fine but not the survival tale of the first one). I would imagine living in a box car or some other abandoned thing that could be made into a tiny house and how I would make it homey.

I loved the American Girl and Dear America books when I was a kid. I liked history, but we only talked about wars and I wanted to learn about people, especially people my own age. The books were fictional, but they tackled some heavy subjects and some of them were pretty informative. I also adored A Little Princess because Sara was so nice to people and kept trying to be nice even after she was sent to the attic. I still aspire to be like Sara.

YES! Same! I loved them.

Although I think being so focused on the human aspect as opposed to "war only" ruined me for adult historical fiction, which tends to be war heavy and/or romance heavy. I don't hate the latter, but...

The Peter Rabbit books by Beatrix Potter because it had talking animals and I love that kind of thing.

Oh and a series of books called Animal Farm that were about the adventures of a vet family(I think?) dealing with all sorts of animals and helping them.

And Goosebumps, because they were 'scary'.

Goosebumps went in weird directions. I remember loving but being baffled by How I Learned to Fly: http://www.bloggerbeware.com/2006/04/52-how-i-learned-to-fly.html

It was pretty weird to begin with, but I loved them as a kid.

I kinda wanna watch the movie they did of the books because it looks so bad it might actually be fun.

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I loved the Peter Rabbit books because of their smell. And because I wanted to live inside the illustrations of the English countryside.

I think the Beatrix Potter books were what made me an Anglophile at a very young age.

The Betsy-Tacy books always made me want to eat something, preferably outside sitting on a park bench.

My favorite books had magic, or something *like* magic. The Changeling, Black and Blue Magic, Magic in the Park...A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, The Jungle Books....

Or horses. All the horses. Blitz, Summer Pony/Winter Pony, A Horse For XYZ, Black Beauty, My Friend Flicka, Misty of Chincoteague.