I was thinking about one day reading Crusoe as an episodic bed-time story to my Son. I just read it for the first time last year. It’s pretty cool that you still have the copy your Dad read to you. My Dad never read long-form stories to me but I do still have, and treasure, his childhood copy of Have Spacesuit Will Travel by Heinlein that he encouraged me to read in grade one or two.

I’m staying away from the kid in the picture. He’s liable to swipe off my head with one stroke if he finds it advantageous. I’ve read The Book of Five Rings! (Or at least part of it.)

And welcome, Anactoria.

I read A Tree Grows In Brooklyn when I was 12. I’m not sure if I was ’supposed to have’ but I did and thought it was fantastic.

Nice post. :o)

The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, most stories about King Arthur and his knights, stories about Robin Hood, The Phantom Tollbooth, Tarzan, The First Men In the Moon, King Solomon’s Mines, Alan Garner’s Elidor, The Dark is Rising, Alice in Wonderland, all 23 Oz books, The Four-Story Mistake, The House With a Clock In Its Walls, pretty much any thrilling wonder story from Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Three Investigators, anything by Lloyd Alexander, The King’s Fifth, Robinson Crusoe, The Swiss Family Robinson, Treasure Island, and that’s probably enough for now since I could go on forever. (And that’s leaving out the more innapropriate books I read when I was a young kid, like James Michener’s Hawaii, and Moby Dick, and that weird science fiction book about the social problems of a planet of homosexuals… it was in our school library for some reason.)