Showing posts with label childhood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label childhood. Show all posts

Saturday, April 24, 2010

BEDA #24 - Favorite Childhood Books



I used to be that girl who carried a book with her everywhere, the kind of girl who read anywhere when she felt like it, the girl who prefered reading rather than playing outside in the playground with the other kids, the kind of girl who read under her sheets when she should have been asleep (and I still am). I've always loved reading. I have three main favorite books/book series:

1. The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. I fell in love with them and I thank my third grade teacher for introducing me to this marvelous and magical series. I still wish I find Narnia whenever I open my wardrobe.

2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. And any Roald Dahl book, but especially that one and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator and Matilda. I will never forget those books, not ever. They are so important to me and they were the first real books I read and devoured in hours.

3. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling. I was... nine years old when I first read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Needless to say, it changed my life. It made me believe in magic again like Narnia once had and it lead to discovering the awesome Nerdfighter community.

I also treasured Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, Charles Dickens' books and a few Portuguese series. And The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares, but I don't think that counts as a childhood favorite. I think I might read all these again soon. Isn't reading fantastic? :)

Until tomorrow!

Bisou, bisou *
* Photograph found here.

Friday, April 24, 2009

BEDA #24 - Childhood classics

Hey, guys.

I think everyone has their "childhood classics".

I'm only days away from being 17, that's not the appropriate amount of time to have childhood classics. It depends on what you consider them to be. There are people who now are much older than I am and remember watching movies from the 20s, so imagine their childhood classics!

As I am very young, I consider that my childhood classics are movies I loved and still remember today since before my teenage years.

They are:

- Animated Disney movies, naturally
- George of the Jungle
- Robin Hood: Men in Tights
- Big Daddy
- Down To You
- Home Alone
- Jumanji
- Titanic
- My Girl
- Look Who's Talking (1, 2 and 3)
- One Fine Day
- Police Academy (All of them)
- Practical Magic
- Shakespeare in Love
- Spice World (A classic)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
- Matilda
- The Man in the Moon
- The Parent Trap
- Weekend at Bernie's

And I'm probably forgetting a few more.

There are also my childhood classic tv series, which are Bewitched, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, S Club 7 series (MAJOOOOOOR), etc etc.

I loved the tv series Three Sisters but I've never been able to find it on the internet :( I loved it so, so much.

What are your childhood classics?

See you tomorrow!

- Lo