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No. 393597
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>>393594I just had this memory unlocked, does anyone remember the Serendipity books??? I think this one made me cry when I was little because I felt sorry for the little pegasus trying to find her purpose
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One of the few that really stood out to me, even after all these years.
No. 393613
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This book went very hard
No. 393616
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I loved this series as kid.
No. 393617
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I remember these books being a lot of fun when I was young. The footnotes was a really cute gimmick, thinking back.
Maybe one of these days, I'll reread it.
No. 393619
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As a German I gotta bring this up kek I actually liked this book as a kid because of the illustrations and the vibe I guess? It’s not as scary as people want it to be, just life lessons. But I remember going through this book a lot in my early childhood years.
No. 393622
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>>393619This shit and picrel gave me nightmares. German children are built differently I guess.
No. 393632
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This one was a very simple storybook that was published only in my country and I loved the watercolor illustrations (picrel is one). It's a story about a rainbow whale that meets different characters and she helps them by giving away each color until she's left with none. She's sad for some time because she's lost all her colors but then she meets another white whale and they live happily ever after.
No. 393637
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>>393632Oh! That reminds me of The Rainbow Fish, but it was a lesson about sharing and vanity.
No. 393640
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I loved when they read these ones at kindergarten storytime, the drawings of rainbow animals intensified a lot since the first reading. I also like how all elephants and animals were always friends with each other despite their quirks instead of being a Rudolph type underdog story where Elmer had to show the power of the rainbow or something in order to be respected, the first book is just him playing a prank on his friends.
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I always got excited when there was one I hadn't read
No. 393650
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This was a minor meme recently, holy shit I was surprised/happy to see other people got freaked the fuck out by this as a kid. The school librarian read it to us. One of the first times feeling fear from media.
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Hell yeah flying frogs
No. 393670
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Was anyone else absolutely obsessed with books about animals living in groups like picrel as a kid?
No. 393674
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I got a bunch of these books from my dad, he had read them as a kid too and passed them on to me and I loved them lol I tried to start my own fantastic five group at school
No. 393687
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Sayonara Mrs. Kackleman had such wild fun art. My mom is an artist and was awesome at collecting a wide range of books for me from lots of different cultures and styles of illustration. This one stands out bc of how much I liked it kek
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>>393670Supremacy. Was and still am obsessed with flying and these books made owls my favorite animal back then, how they had battle armor and their own language and culture was so cool. There was a scene in the first one where a character flies for the first time to escape after a villain character kills someone in the library or something i loved imagining in my head, it was so cool.
And in a later book they mention something they found that’s not quite a feather and not fur, so we conclude it’s a human hair, blew my mind. Any talk of humans or man made stuff beyond castles was completely out until then I think.
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Only some Eurofags might remember this, but I loved loved Fantômette, the books were great. The character was a "vigilante" by night, and a normal school girl during the day. My Mom made us Fantômette "hats" out of black opaque tights for my sister and I to play, that's how much I could imagine being her back then. If the books are available somewhere in English, I absolutely recommend them. I'm even considering buying the series on my Kindle to have a bit of a nostalgia.
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>>393650children's horror books used to be genuinely unsettling. everyone remembers scary stories to tell in the dark and r.l. stine's books but there were numerous lesser-known series that featured some disturbing subject matter including children dying in horrific ways. i was a huge horror reader growing up and there's one book that had a scene that was so gruesome i can still vividly recall it all these years later.
No. 393714
>>393713Do you remember the name of the book,
nonny?
No. 393716
>>393714"the awful apple orchard" from the shivers series. it's about a brother and sister who visit an orchard that they believe is haunted.
the orchard is indeed haunted, but they're the ghosts. the orchard had a large pressing machine to crush the apples with and the children played on it and were killed. i remember the book describing their bodies in gruesome detail including apples being covered with their blood. if you'd like to read it yourself it's available on the internet archive:
https://archive.org/details/awfulappleorchar00mdsp No. 393719
>>393619your race is sincerely disturbed kek wtf
>>393632this is so sweet anon, any other italian classics? i love the language
No. 393721
>>393670fuck was i ever. i used to spend soooo much time on warriors forums, and was always drawing my own little clan maps based around my neighbourhood…
>>393707yessss i fucking loved the little details in these. the cult brainwashing in the first book was one of the most interesting and terrifying concepts of my childhood, the part where they get the owlets to repeat their names again and again until the sound becomes meaningless is so fascinating. also maybe controversial but i loved the movie kek, maybe im blinded by nostalgia but i thought it had such gorgeous character design and animation. really mapped one-to-one on my imagination
No. 393722
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who jenningspilled here
i literally still fuckin think about some of these stories like weekly because i went through a period when i just read them all in an endless jennings loop. also had the audiobooks of singinpoo, underrated tbqh
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I loved R. L. Stine's books (Goosebumps etc.) despite also being scared to read some of them. This one kept me awake at night when I was probably 10 years old kek.
No. 393728
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>>393670Fuck yes. The Silverwing series was my favorite, I always thought picrel was the coolest cover. The series is about bats being used as bombs during WW2 and there's also invasive tropical cannibal bats on the loose who worship a Mayan bat god. I also liked Duncton Wood and Watership Down
No. 393729
>>393722my top 5 classic jennings picks in order of how often they still make me think:
1. the turtle soup story where the kid leaves his socks on for a year to commit olfactory bioterrorism on some fuckers harrassing sea turtles and the stench is so bad it kills a rat
2. the one where a kid finds a sad ghost in an abandoned building and promises to help him pass his spooking exam. inside out kerfuffle.
3. the one with the busker who was so jealous of a dog that he traps it in a well for weeks and then wins the lotto realises people are fake as fuck cunts and the dog was the only real one so he brings the dog up but the dogs head is stuck in a bent-back position from looking up out of the well and then he gives away all his lotto money and once hes out the people turn on him and trap him in the well. and so he gets a deformed neck also
4. the one where the boy learns how to hypnotise chickens and attempts to profit at the local show with hilarity and slug-eating ensuing
5. the one where the kid grows pubes before all his mates and gets bullied for it so he goes and cries to the buddhist monk hes pals with who then helps him develop telekinesis.
naturally i was a massive round the twist fan, but who wasnt.
No. 393733
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>>393597Trying this again with the image attached. I never got into the books, but my grandmother had this one and read it to me when I was young. I remember loving the art.
No. 393734
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my swag lesbian aunt gave me some of these gnome books as a kid it was epic. see picrel a gnome administering first aid on some wildlife
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>>393733i had one of these books! it was about a squirrel who ate berries from a forbidden tree and got hooked on them like they were drugs. they even made him dopesick kek
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another aussie classic, the nimbin… i always loved this illustration of it. horrible little thing.
No. 393737
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We always knew it was gonna be a good week when the teacher pulled out these bad boys for English class kek
No. 393738
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In second grade my teacher would read this book out loud to us. For about half of the book, she folded the cover back so that we were not spoiled by what would happen - the main character gets the ability to turn everything his mouth touches into chocolate. He gives his mom a kiss on the cheek, afraid that he's going to turn her into chocolate….and well…
No. 393739
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>>393737Samefag, this one was also awesome and I've just discovered that it's apparently part of a series!
No. 393744
>>393742race, ethnicity? idk. people. the german people are disturbed.
not a burger
No. 393747
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i remember how mortified the kid was when he realized he was (accidentally) in the girls' restroom and how both he and the girls recognized how inappropriate and embarrassing his presence was. if only i knew back then how things would change…
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No. 393769
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as kid i was obsessed with mystery fiction. i lived fiina kelly's mystery kids and mystery club books but my fave was anne cassidy. her books were harder to come by and i was incredibly excited whenever a new one arrived at my loval library. Years later when i visited the uk i bought a whole gd stack.
her books felt more grown up bc they were crime fiction that had acgual deaths and shit but the protagonists were stil kids/teens. a lot of her books had fairly realistic stories about orninary peiple getting caught up in crime or having to make difficult choices. there were also more conventional murder mysteries.
picrel is the french editions i read as a kid. looking back they were def meant for teens but i was so excited to read crime fiction that had actual crime in it
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>>393728>Watership DownAbsolute classic. I don't know what age demographic it was supposed to hit, but Watership Down is such a wonderful book. It's still one of my favorites, even as an adult.
>Duncton WoodThis one was pretty good, too, but not my favorite. I thought using moles was pretty creative, though.
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I’m not afraid to admit I’ve been rereading Dork Diaries. My life has gone through a downward spiral and I needed something to distract myself with (and give me some desire to not kms). I love the covers so much, reminds me of my past childhood playing games on GirlsGoGames and Polly Pocket
No. 393805
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I love Tamora Pierce so much.
No. 393831
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A challenger appears
No. 393868
>>393724Kek nonna were you me? I would also get too scared to read them sometimes, certain ones had more sinister vibes than others tho! You know exactly what I mean too
Chicken Chicken was too much body horror for me as an 8 year old I wonder if other countries have similar kid horror authors from around that time. The Fear Street books were even scarier so I didn’t read those til later lmao
No. 393869
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This book is so charming. I bought it again secondhand for $5.
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This one…
No. 393871
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>>393870And this one were my comfort books as a kid.
No. 393873
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Great thread op!
Did anybody ever read Nobody’s Fault? This book really stuck with me as a kid. I remember feeling really disturbed by it but I couldn’t put it down.
No. 393876
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I used to read this book all the time as kid, it’s part of a series but I only had this one. It’s about a girl who finds out that she is a stardust spirit, who have the ability to fly and cast magic, which differs depending on what season they are affiliated with. The books follow her as she learns to control her magic and deal with the ever present threat of the ‘dark spirits’.
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I love reading the Disney Fairies book series. It gives such a cozy vibe, and I adore the art. I still have the entire series and enjoy re-reading them often.
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>>393873it really is a great idea for a thread, i've been blowing it up since yesterday kek. anyway did anyone else read the dollhouse murders? it was the first whodunit-style book i ever read.
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>>393852Alanna is such an inspiration. I have been going back and re-reading Pierce's books in order. They're such a treat. I hope you're doing well these days Nona.
Loved this book too. I am still into this kind of genre kek.