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- _salisae_
which story/stories captured your imagination most effectively as a youngin?
- _salisae_0
aside from the ones your uncle told you to get you into his bed
come ON! no one has any???
- harlequino0
There was a book called "Fly By Night" that was a mindfuck to me when I was little because it mimcked my dreams almost excatly. It was about a boy who floated through the night and the woods as he slept. I believe its out of print.
- Witt0
asking for the US or in general?
- _salisae_0
in general.
pushmi-pullyu
- driftlab0
Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (Headless Horseman)
- joyride0
This one girl has an extra vertebrae at the end, and it kinda feels like a tail. i keep waiting for it to wag when she gets excited.. oh wait wrong tale... sorry
- kelpie0
this is perhaps a bit bad for a small child who should be out playing football and stuff but, er, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey were the stories I loved as a kid.
and a book called Whatamess (about a very scruffy Afghan hound) and The Enormous Crocodile (about an enormous crocodile, who ate kids).
but mainly the Odyssey :-/
- kidswift-0
My ultimate has always been
where the wild things, i called myself max for years after that.Another fav is The midnights kitchen.
And any books by Roal Dahl
esp Georges marvelious medicine, the witches, the twits. Tales of the unexplaindAnd anything about pirates esp captain pugwash
- Witt0
My mother used to tell me one about a big castle (sometimes it was a forest) which had many doors and every night we would open one and there would be different stories in. one for each night. Like the Arabian Nights. She was making them up as it went.
She was also a designer so there were many comic books that caught my attention, like Tintin, Spirou etc, but the stories were more adult...
i stopped being a chirper rather soon.
- canuck0
Greatest book ever, is without a doubt, The monster at the end of this book with the cookie monster.
- Witt0
Later, my father bought me "The Adventures of Gordom Pym of Nantucket", which really caught my imagination - and i still think it's one of the best stories ever written.
- jaylarson0
The Giver
DragonLance Chronicles
Harry Potter
- version30
there was that one about the milkman, and the paperboy, and my moms best friends husband, and that time i was a toddler and my mom threatened to kill me in front of my father with a gun in my lil 2 yr old mouth.
like those?
well you asked.
- Rand0
whoa
- jox0
Curious George.
Seriously. ^_^
- Rand0
let's hear your own stories, salisae
- HelixDnB0
The Giver - CLASSIC and after learning about a lot of other philosophies it had a shit-ton more meaning. Bridge to Tarabithia, Wizard of Oz (read it in 1st and 2nd grade), Chronicles of Narnia, and Spawn in 5th or 6th grade.
- chossy0
Same as kidswift but also what a mess like kelpie :D
- Witt0
stories and tales are not the same thing.
- version30
yes seriously, i have more