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reading pictures (but not panels)
Feb. 4th, 2012 01:00 pmMmmm, Saturday. So I'm sitting here at work daydreaming, and I have a question for you all: what were your favorite picture books when you were a child?
There's an ulterior motivation to the question, I confess; I've never thought of myself as a children's storyteller, but I'm going to need to be one for at least one assignment, and I've been digging through my own memory for inspiration. Honestly ... it's too big a category to get my head around easily! I was obsessed with picture books as a child, far beyond the age where I was reading all kinds of other, less illustrated things; I remember being in late elementary school and still going and nabbing a huge pile of them to read in bed on weekend mornings.
( A little rambling and a few titles I particularly remember ... )
There are just too many to even scratch the surface, but in the last few minutes I randomly talked about this with two classmates as they wandered in and out of the building where I'm working, and they hadn't heard of many of the titles I was thinking about (and I didn't know the ones they came back with either). It's always fascinating to get fandom talking about their favorite books, but while I've had discussions of formative YA experiences, I don't think I've ever seen much talk about picture books. It makes me curious: which ones do you remember? What grabbed you when you were small?
There's an ulterior motivation to the question, I confess; I've never thought of myself as a children's storyteller, but I'm going to need to be one for at least one assignment, and I've been digging through my own memory for inspiration. Honestly ... it's too big a category to get my head around easily! I was obsessed with picture books as a child, far beyond the age where I was reading all kinds of other, less illustrated things; I remember being in late elementary school and still going and nabbing a huge pile of them to read in bed on weekend mornings.
( A little rambling and a few titles I particularly remember ... )
There are just too many to even scratch the surface, but in the last few minutes I randomly talked about this with two classmates as they wandered in and out of the building where I'm working, and they hadn't heard of many of the titles I was thinking about (and I didn't know the ones they came back with either). It's always fascinating to get fandom talking about their favorite books, but while I've had discussions of formative YA experiences, I don't think I've ever seen much talk about picture books. It makes me curious: which ones do you remember? What grabbed you when you were small?
