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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.
No. 393641
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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.
No. 393653
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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
No. 393707
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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.
No. 393711
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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.
No. 393713
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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
No. 393724
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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
No. 393735
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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
No. 393736
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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…
No. 393750
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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
No. 393788
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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.
No. 393802
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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.
No. 393870
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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.
No. 393920
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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.
No. 394027
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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.
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I bought it for the cover.
No. 461760
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I really love the photography of these I Spy books. They're so cool and fascinating to look at. Been thinking about collecting the hardcovers.
No. 461762
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>>393805i treasured these two books
No. 461772
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Jacqueline Wilson's books were my favourite as a child. I've been considering re-reading some for nostalgia's sake.
No. 461779
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i was obsessed with this book as a kid and wanted my mom to read it to me every night. it's about a dog who gets an ugly sweater from his owners and tries to get rid of it but it keeps coming back to him. then eventually a bird grabs a thread and unravels it and turns it into a nest.
No. 461833
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Here is something from my country. The book is about a species of superintelligent fish people with mind powers who live in the ganges river in India(author is turkish). These superpowered fish people decide to make contact with humanity bc if they dont humanity will destroy the world with manmade pollution and climate change(fish ppl are portrayed as being above things like human hubris) so they have to step in before that can happen. They create a female fishperson/human hybrid named Ganga who then prepares to act as their messenger on land. Ganga was described as being kinda creepy looking, she had eyelidless fish eyes with multiple colors and gills where her ears should be. It was the first full length novel I read as a child and I always thought its cover was coolest thing ever. Looking back its plot sounds a lot like Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Its author wrote a bunch of more childrens scifi/adventure novels with pretty interesting premises like this. Another one of her books was about an immortal sumerian princess who constantly reincarnated in a new body living her last life and trying to find her dead fathers tomb before she died. Another was about a turkish boy who discovered a hidden historical site of a forgotten aegean civilisation and the main plot was him getting kidnapped by an evil rich british couple who wanted to learn where the site was so that they could traffick artifacts in there to England.
No. 461834
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>>461833Another book of hers with an unusual cover
No. 461839
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All of a sudden I got a flashback to one of the most fucked up children's books I ever read. I was probably around 9 years old when I borrowed it from the library, fooled by the cute cat on the cover. In short the book is about a little girl who finds her beloved cat dead and decaying in a closet. Not being able to accept the situation she tries to preserve the corpse by mummifying it. I remember the book going into unpleasant detail about it, iirc it describes the girl gagging at the stink and trying different products she can find in her grandmas bathroom to cover it. I remember she used bath salts in the end, and then tried to hide the mummy from her grandma, before her dad finds it and they end up burying the cat. I guess the book could have great use with explaining bereavement/death to a child, but I just cried reading it and felt sick afterwards
No. 461841
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I adored these as a kid. This is one of those rare cases where a man actually knew how to write female characters. I sometimes wonder if he asked his wife for feedback or something. I like how Jamie's relationship to Angeline changes throughout the books, how she's actually a decent person who Jamie misjudged as a queen bee type in the beginning. In retrospect, that feels very true-to-life to me; I've personally met a really beautiful women who were popular with men, but who had low self-esteem because other women assumed they were shallow and didn't want to be friends with them. Also, Jamie's friend Isabella is unhinged, and she would definitely be a farmer as an adult kek.
No. 461842
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>>461836adding on to turkanon's gulten dayıoglu mention with other turkish authors, i also loved behic ak and sevim ak's books as a child. my favorite was the sıcak cikolatalı yolculuklar one, (hot chocolate flavored journeys as a literal translation lol) which was all about the friendship of a girl and a taxi driver who made her hot chocolate and dropped her off to school everyday! i thought that it was the most heartwarming thing ever and i wanted to befriend an elderly taxi driver too.
No. 461847
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i used to think these were the funniest shit in the world as a child..even though its full of gross humor as a adult i cringe
No. 461873
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>>461841I adored these books too, and I remember reading that the author consulted his sister a lot when writing it and Jamie is somewhat based on his sister. I loved that Jamie was so cynical and pissed off all the time, she was truly the female greg heffley kek
No. 461902
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I work in a library now, and spend a lot of time working in the youth department. It's fascinating to see how many book series I read 15-20 years ago are still popular with modern kids. Not only that, many are STILL coming out with new books (Magic Treehouse, Warrior Cats, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dork Diaries, etc.)
>>393805I read this series when I was 8 and fell in love. Tamora Pierce really influenced who I am as a person in some small way. I re-read the Alanna books recently and plan to read her other series soon.
Contributing my own. I remember trying to brute force read it in 2nd grade, even though it was a little above my reading level. I read the whole series later on and loved them.
No. 461906
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>>461842My dad met behic ak once, he’s apparently a funny guy but surprisingly quiet most of the time. His caricatures are way funnier than his books imo. I recreated my favorite in English for you guys! Probably the only caricature I can remember down to a T. It’s etched in my memory
No. 461917
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I loved this book as a kid.
No. 461920
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This was my shit as a little kid, I remember taking it out of my school library so often one of the teachers had to tell me to cool it a bit so other kids had the chance to read it too kek
No. 461922
>>393650I remember this image. That is from the story with the woman who wore a ribbon around her neck!
What was the name of this book?
No. 461924
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>>461921It's really cute, it's definitely for little kids cause it's a quick read and there's not much to it. But it's this cat traveling all over the world and detailing his adventures. I love the art style, I bought it on Amazon a few years ago just so I have a copy for nostalgia.
No. 461927
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>>461873Dear Dumb Diary was unironically better written and better illustrated than Wimpy Kid. The latter is only more popular because the main character is a scrote.
No. 461952
>>461927I read both as a kid and while diary of a wimpy kid was pretty funny and is obviously iconic now (the ‘cheese touch’ was a thing in like every elementary school for a time kek) I enjoyed dear dumb diary more and it was consistently funny. It deserved a movie adaptation like diary of a wimpy kid and not a shitty tv movie musical.
I remember refusing to even watch the movie because it didn’t have the cynical tone that the books had. I guess they thought girls wouldn’t be able to handle it even though the success of the books proved there was an audience. Dear dumb diary was just so much better than the other ‘wimpy kid but for girls’ series dork diaries.
No. 461967
>>461833>>461842These sound so interesting, wish I could read them! Is Turkish hard to learn?
>>461839KEK nona I had this book. Funny you bring it up because I was looking through my old books recently but forgot what this one was so I read it and got traumatized all over again. Kudos to the author with coming up with such a unique concept though kek
No. 461989
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Loved this series.
No. 462038
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Not my favorite childhood book, I barely remember what I read in my childhood besides fairytales and some random short comics from children magazines. The book was alright
No. 462050
>>461906omg i love your own take on the caricature and its so cool that your dad met behic ak. it makes me miss stuff posted on facebook walls like fırat and hunililer (which are turkish caricatures popular with cynical middle aged people lol. my mom used to read them with me)
>>461967turkish is a language a lot of people have trouble with learning because of it's unfamiliar grammar structure but don't let that discourage you! if you want to learn it then go for it, there are a lot of enjoyable components to it and hey, turkish media is fun :]
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