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Idk about "loved," but I'll put "I can fly" since I remember reading it a lot.
In case others don't know it, it goes a little something like this (each line is a page):
"I can fly
Up, up, up
Down, down, down
Up, up, up
Down, down, down
Up, up, up
Down, down, down
I can fly"
Soup & Me
The first one I remember really being moved by was Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. But the first one I truly loved was Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny.
House of the Scorpion. Pleasantly surprised to look it up and see it has pretty good ratings
Richard Scarry’s "What do people do all day" is such a fun book that even now I wish I had again just to flip through the pages and see the intricacies of the drawings
Almost any Golden Book (Pokey Little Puppy) or
My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George),
Paddington Bear books.
Along with titles others have mentioned (Scarry, etc.). These are firsts
So you want to be a wizard by Diane Duane.
Can't remember which came first, but it was either The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley or The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander.
The Planet of Adventure series (it came as a single book) by Jack Vance.
It was more of an adventure book than sci-fi. Light on the science but amazingly descriptive with the details of its world building. It was the first time I could read a book and really experience it like I was there.
I dug it out of my dad’s sci-fi collection when I was about 11 I think. It was a Dutch translation and came with a separate map. I loved that map so much, you could follow the journey and fantasize about all those other parts that weren’t mentioned in the book.
So yea, it’s the book that opened a whole realm of imagination for me.
The Phantom Toll Booth!
Weren't they making a live action movie of that? I swear I saw a teaser trailer for it like almost a whole decade ago but don't remember the movie ever actually coming out.
Maniac Magee. I read it again recently and it really holds up well.
It’s basically a book about racism. This orphan kid doesn’t understand why this town is segregated, so he keeps going on the black side of town even though he’s white. He makes friends with all the kids and eventually the adults start to understand they’re not so different. The ending isn’t unrealistic, like the town immediately desegregating or something, but it’s very charming. It’s the little impact that one kid can have on the town that leaves a lasting impression.
I legitimately cried as an adult at one point in the book, because it has a way of getting you so invested in the characters, and I won’t spoil it but something happens to one of the characters. It hits hard.
I read most of Dan Brown's books as a child and I really liked The Digital Fortress, Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, but the one that marked me the most in my prepubescent years was probably Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho.
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, if I remember correctly is the first novel I remember reading. When we were kids, our parents bought us kid-friendly versions of the novels. I don't really remember anymore if they were condensed versions, or just the same length but with a couple of pictures added per chapter.
It.
The King, by Dick Bruna. I can still recite it by heart 53 years later.
The 1982 version of "The Amazing Adventures of Hercules". They re-released it in I think 2004, but butchered it.
Old Man and the Sea, the first reading assignment I actually enjoyed. Sure it took 5 years after being weaned off of picture books to seriously get into reading, but hey I'm thankful because there's no adventure quite like the kind that comes from a good book.
The Hounds of the Morrigan by Pat O Shea. Pure Irish fantasy set in real locations I know in Ireland.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (because it was read to me)
Pirate's Promise (first full book I read on my own)
Star wars bane books and Kevin Mitnik's ghost in the wires. I couldn't put them down.
