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What were your favorite childhood books. Because I loved the Little Golden classics.

I was always partial to the Choose Your Own Adventure series of books.

I read the shit out of Goosebumps, The Magic School Bus series, and the Sideways Stories from Wayside School series. I also loved "Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" and of course Dr. Seuss.

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The Hobbit was the first book I remember my dad reading to me. No surprise I ended up as a total Tolkien nerd.

As a very young child I loved A.A. Milne: the Winnie the Pooh books, but also the poetry like When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six.

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie. It’s a wonderful story and there’s even an audiobook by him.

Alice in Wonderland and also Through the Looking-glass.

I loved the Dear America and American Girl books.

Alice in Wonderland/Looking Glass, "Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day", Narnia (except the Last Battle of course), Winnie the Pooh, anything by Roald Dahl, Peter Pan, Where the Wild Things Are, the Little Prince, the Wind in the Willows, Charlotte's Web (to this day I WILL NOT kill spiders), Dr. Dolittle, the Water Babies, Velveteen Rabbit, My Father's Dragon, anything by Dr. Seuss, anything by Beverly Cleary, Harriet the Spy, anything by Richard Scarry (when I was really little), A Wrinkle in Time, Curious George, Mr. Popper's Penguins, the Little Engine That Could, Ferdinand the Bull, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and I'm sure there are some I forgot. I also really liked Greek mythology although as a kid I could only get very censored versions of those.

I was a Jacqueline Wilson kid with my favorite being The Illustrated Mum.
Also: Tracy Beaker, The Suitcase Kid, Lizzie Zipmouth, The Bed and Breakfast Star, Double Act, Midnight and The Worry Website.

Go Dog Go
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Childcraft How and Why Library
People of the First Man
A Taste of Blackberries

Mr. Men
Richard Scarry
Alllll the Little Golden books
The Velveteen Rabbit
Higglity Pigglity Pop or There Must be More to Life by Maurice Sendak
Dragolin by Stephen Cosgrove

I still have my original copies of the last three.

Very early on, it was Green Eggs and Ham (have the book). But I remember Put Me in the Zoo; Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?; and The Monster at the End of this Book being go-to books. Then there was Shel Silverstein, loved his poems ('But all the magic I have known; I've had to make myself.').

When I got a little older, 9, 10, 11, I got into Roald Dahl - The Fantastic Mr. Fox first, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, I read several more after that, but I didn't think they were as good as those three. Around then, I also got into Ruth Chew' witch books, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books, The Girl with the Silver Eyes, The Westing Game, From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The Egypt Game, and Bunnicula and Howliday Inn.

A little later, it was Lois Duncan and Joan Lowery Nixon (still have Down a Dark Hall and The House on Hackman's Hill). Two of my siblings got into Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - I never really got into them, I just thought the illustrations were gross and the stories weren't as good as a Twilight Zone anthology I had.

As a teen, I loved Firestarter and It and also got into Christopher Pike, some I really liked (Remember Me, Weekend, and the Final Friends Series being particular favorites), some weren't for (I remember being fairly baffled by one, think it was Whisper of Death). And there were Georgette Heyer's Regency romances. The Alfred G. Graebner Memorial High School of Rules and Regulations and the Grounding of Group Six were fairly frequently revisited. I also came to Dune, which is still my favorite, even if I couldn't get into any of the subsequent books.

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Ruth Chew's witch books, Dick King-Smith's animal books (though I actually never cared for Babe, I preferred Pigs Might Fly), Marguerite Henry's horse books, and The Jungle Book. I also randomly stumbled upon Elizabeth Goudge's The Little White Horse in fourth grade and I've wanted a little round room in the top of a tower ever since.

I had a major phase of loving my country's translated version of the St Clares books (complete with the wish to go to boarding school lol). Which was especially weird because they simply kept adding new books to the series that never existed in English.

Littler: Little Critter, Berenstain Bears, Dr. Seuss, Go Dogs Go stand out

Little: American Girl Books like WOAH

Less Little: those History Diaries that were so huge in the late 90's early 2000s.

My favorite picture book thar I still love as an adult is The Mountain That Loved a Bird; it primed me to love Beauty and the Beast and similar stories very early, and also nature, gardening, and habitat restoration. Plus it's really sweet.

Babysitters Club, Sweet Valley Twins and similar books-there was a series I loved called Penpals about some girls in a boarding school writing to boys in a boarding school, also loved Robin Klein (especially Penny Pollard)

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What are your favorite and least favorite holidays?

My favorites: Halloween is first, followed by Christmas, New Years, MLK Jr. Day (I often volunteer on this one, have also attended a few protests, I just generally like it), labor day

Least favorite: Columbus Day, Memorial Day (only because it becomes this whole yay, military thing here in the south), July 4th, Valentines Day

I write it out as crappy valentine's day (yes, all lowercase), but my husband and I do have a tradition of eating pizza and watching bad movies to make the day more tolerable.

I love Christmas (almost to a frightening degree) and used to enjoy New Year's Eve a lot since that was also my mom's birthday. There would be a big party for that. Things have not been the same on that front since my mom died, though.

I absolutely live for Halloween!!!! I have an insane setup that I’ve been putting together for decades before we finally bought a house. None of it is trendy or cute, lots of it isn’t even mass produced. Most of it isn’t even Halloween stuff, like the lanterns I have on the arched cemetery gate. It’s super creepy and very popular with little kids and everyone over 40 in my neighbourhood. I get angry letters from the 30 something yummy mummy club every year about it being too scary because they don’t understand Halloween.

Next would be Christmas, again for the decorations.

Other than that, Memorial Day is the only other one I notice living in America. I’ve never seen it celebrated(?) as a yay military holiday, it’s totally a bbq and pool weekend. I go with some others to put flags on graves but despite living in the Deep South, there aren’t any ceremonies or anything.

I still do a minute silence on Remembrance Day but that isn’t a holiday in this country.

I don’t even notice other holidays other than to note extra pay for working some of them or remembering there won’t be mail or banks will be closed.

Favorites: Thanksgiving, Halloween and Xmas in that order
Least fave: You're a Big Loser If You're Not In a Couple Day, I mean Valentine's

Favorites: Halloween, New Years (not so much the celebrating of it, more the feeling of starting fresh and new), Christmas, Valentine's Day

Least Favorites: July 4th (fireworks make me sad for wildlife)...that's probably it tbh.

Favorites: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine’s Day

Least Favorite: Fourth of July

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