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⌈ Secret Post #6517 ⌋

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What was your favorite book/s as a kid? Did they have a big impact on you or were they just fun to read?

my favorite book was a weird little east german murder mystery book thing called 'bad moon' by dudley brown. it was insane, about a man named 'noname' who comes to a private investigator to invite him to the house where, ten years before, a mysterious magician committed suicide ... OR WAS HE MURDERED?? and there's just this insane cast of characters, a wacky house, weird sentence structure that has impacted the way I write to this day (it's been 30+ years since I first read it). I have a copy of it now and it's just as bonkers as I remember and I adore it.

Jacqueline Wilson books were the ones that had made the biggest impression on me and were found around the time I was starting to lose interest in reading a a young kid.
Pretty sure I picked up The Monster Story-Teller at a book fair, hoping that it was a sci-fi adventure. Even though it wasn't what I expected, it did lead me to pick up Wilson's other book Lizzy Zip-Mouth and got me hooked by the subtly emotional drama; where a girl stops talking and is wary of her Mum's current boyfriend after they had escaped her mother's abusive ex in the past, but would bond with a great-grandmother over an interest with dolls.
They aren't perfect and are very 90s with certain attitudes of the times, but they did handle difficult issues that kids do go through in a child-friendly way and with interesting female protagonists. My favorite was The Illustrated Mum, but also liked: The Suitcase Kid, Bad Girls, Double Act, The Bed and Breakfast Star, The Worry Website, The Girls series, The Story of Tracy Beaker and The Dare Game.

As a very young kid, Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss. And I don't know how much impact it has had because I am very drawn to things with certain cadences, but, as a picky eater, I certainly didn't take the lesson of 'try this different thing, even if you think you won't like it' to heart.

As a bit older kid, I really liked the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books and I guess I took away from them how annoying some things can be (whining, moping, tattling, etc.). I also loved the Ruth Chew witch books, witch (heh!) taught me that some adults really don't pay attention to their kids or weird things that are going on around them. This was reinforced by many different books as a grew up. And I found it to be true in real-life in some circumstances. I have long since realized that that disengagement some adults display was due to a lot of different reasons, and some were not bad reasons.

Wizard of Oz, the whole series really. Also Anne of Green Gables. Harry Potter when they came out.

Beyond that, I just read anything I could get my hands on. I liked Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley just because they were available in the Philippines and there were a whole lot of books to read. But I wouldn't say those ones had much of an impact on me.

Soooo many. When I was very young, the Little House on the Prairie books. Beverly Cleary books as well.

However, the most influential books for me were in my preteen years and Robert Cormier books. He taught me that books can have bad endings.

harriet the spy made me feel better about being the weird loner freak at my school that everyone hated and bullied and mocked who would rather write in their notebook and talk to the adults than try to remedy their situation with their peers...

Andre Norton's SF and fantasy novels, and The Lord of the Rings.

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