{"id":818,"date":"2005-04-03T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/04\/03\/regression\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:54:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:54:13","slug":"regression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/04\/03\/regression\/","title":{"rendered":"REGRESSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s probably no secret that I love children&#8217;s books. I love the illustrations and the stories. I love the fantasy, the world-building, the freedom, the problem-solving. I love the evocation of earlier times. I love the imagination that flowers and blossoms and swells out of them.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember learning to read. I think I&#8217;ve always known how. I&#8217;ve been speed-reading since I was a child as well, and since reading was my primary and favorite source of entertainment, I&#8217;ve read A LOT. I keep good books, and I hunt down books I read as a child so I can add them to my library now. I have a tall bookshelf stuffed full of children&#8217;s and young adult books that, even though it&#8217;s placed at the entrance to the playroom, is actually full of MY books. <\/p>\n<p>When we moved to Sweden, the movers made us inventory EVERYTHING in our household. I had to count all my books and was both chagrined and proud to find out I had over 1500. We&#8217;ve been here 8 years now, and that number has been steadily climbing, mostly thanks to the wonderful efforts of my mom who has kept me in a steady supply of English books in a country where books have been both astronomically expensive and highly taxed for years.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was International Children&#8217;s Book Day, celebrated on the anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen&#8217;s birth. My kids and I are reading <i>The Trumpet of the Swan<\/i> by E.B. White, which if you haven&#8217;t managed to read it along with his other beloved classics <i>Charlotte&#8217;s Web<\/i>, and <i>Stuart Little<\/i>, I can highly recommend. Introducing my children to books I love and re-read as an adult is one of the best things about having children in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I guess this is sort of a meme since <a href=\"http:\/\/ozswede.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">ozswede<\/a> did it first. \ud83d\ude42 These lists are vastly truncated, as otherwise they would each be about a mile long.<\/p>\n<p><!--more Favorite Books That I Have Read Over & Over Again Into Adulthood--><b>Favorite books I read as a child that I have read over and over again into adulthood<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Harriet the Spy<\/i> by Louise Fitzhugh<\/li>\n<li><i>Mrs. Frisby &#038; the Rats of NIMH<\/i> by Robert C. O&#8217;Brien<\/li>\n<li><i>The Boxcar Children<\/i> by Gertrude Warner Chandler<\/li>\n<li><i>The Incredible Journey<\/i> by Sheila Burnford<\/li>\n<li><i>The Melendy Children books<\/i> by Elizabeth Enright<\/li>\n<li><i>Heidi<\/i> by Joanna Spyri<\/li>\n<li><i>The Chronicles of Narnia<\/i> by C.S. Lewis<\/li>\n<li><i>Lad: A Dog<\/i> by Albert Payson Terhune<\/li>\n<li><i>Irish Red<\/i> by Jim Kjelgaard\n<li><i>The Phantom Tollbooth<\/i> by Norton Juster<\/li>\n<li><i>The Three Toymakers<\/i> by Ursula Moray Williams<\/li>\n<li><i>The Swiss Family Robinson<\/i> by Johann Wyss<\/li>\n<li><i>The Little House books<\/i> by Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/li>\n<li><i>Island of the Blue Dolphins<\/i> by Scott O&#8217;Dell<\/li>\n<li><i>A Wrinkle in Time<\/i> by Madeleine L&#8217;Engle<\/li>\n<li><i>The Dark is Rising<\/i> by Susan Cooper<\/li>\n<li><i>Charlie &#038; The Chocolate Factory<\/i> by Roald Dahl<\/li>\n<li><i>The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles<\/i> by Julie Edwards<\/li>\n<li><i>A Wizard of Earthsea<\/i> by Ursula K. Le Guin<\/li>\n<li><i>Pippi Longstocking<\/i> by Astrid Lindgren<\/li>\n<li><i>Winnie-the-Pooh<\/i> by A.A. Milne<\/li>\n<li><i>101 Dalmations<\/i> and <i>The Starlight Barking<\/i> by Dodie Smith<\/li>\n<li><i>The Little Broomstick<\/i> by Mary Stewart<\/li>\n<li><i>The Hobbit<\/i> by J.R.R. Tolkien<\/li>\n<li><b>everything ever written<\/b> by Louisa May Alcott<\/li>\n<li><i>A Little Princess<\/i> and <i>The Secret Garden<\/i> by Frances Hodgson Burnett<\/li>\n<li><i>The Black Stallion<\/i> by Walter Farley<\/li>\n<li><i>From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/i> by E.L. Konigsburg<\/li>\n<li><i>The Railway Children<\/i> by Edith Nesbit<\/li>\n<li><i>Half-Magic<\/i> by Edward Eager<\/li>\n<li><i>The Naughtiest Girl in the School<\/i> by Enid Blyton<\/li>\n<li><i>The Witch of Blackbird Pond<\/i> by Elizabeth Speare George<\/li>\n<li><i>The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I mean Noel)<\/i> by Ellen Raskin<\/li>\n<li><i>The Forgotten Door<\/i>, and <i>Escape to Witch Mountain<\/i> by Alexander Key<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Children&#8217;s books I read as an adult and enjoyed<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Anne of Green Gables<\/i> by L.M. Montgomery<\/li>\n<li><i>A Girl of the Limberlost<\/i> by Gene Porter Stratton<\/li>\n<li><i>Coraline<\/i> by Neil Gaiman<\/li>\n<li><i>His Dark Materials<\/i> by Philip Pullman<\/li>\n<li><i>Dinotopia<\/i> by James Gurney<\/li>\n<li><i>All-of-A-Kind Family<\/i> by Sydney Taylor<\/li>\n<li><i>Puck of Pook&#8217;s Hill<\/i> by Rudyard Kipling<\/li>\n<li><i>Lionboy<\/i> by Zizou Cordier<\/li>\n<li><i>Time Stops for No Mouse<\/i> by Michael Hoeye<\/li>\n<li><i>Tuesday<\/i> by David Wiesner<\/li>\n<li><b>everything ever written<\/b> by Diana Wynne Jones<\/li>\n<li><i>Pish Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch<\/i> by Nancy Willard<\/li>\n<li><i>Swallows &#038; Amazons<\/i> by Arthur Ransome<\/li>\n<li><i>The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet<\/i> by Eleanor Cameron<\/li>\n<li><i>The Last Treasure<\/i>, and <i>Going Through the Gate<\/i> by Janet S. Anderson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Books I have enjoyed reading with or to my kids<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Mr. Bear Squash-You-All-Flat<\/i> by Morrell Gipson<\/li>\n<li><i>Jamberry<\/i> by Bruce Degen<\/li>\n<li><i>Where the Wild Things Are<\/i> by Maurice Sendak<\/li>\n<li><i>Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?<\/i> by Nancy White Carlstrom\n<li><i>The Salamander Room<\/i> by Anne Mazer<\/li>\n<li><i>No Fighting, No Biting<\/i> by Else Minarik<\/li>\n<li><i>What Do You Say, Dear?<\/i> and <i>What Do You Do, Dear?<\/i> by Sesyle Joslin\n<li><i>A Kiss For Little Bear<\/i> by Else Minarik<\/li>\n<li><i>Bread and Jam For Francis<\/i> by Russell Hoban<\/li>\n<li><i>James &#038; the Giant Peach<\/i> by Roald Dahl<\/li>\n<li><i>Mrs Piggle Wiggle<\/i> by Betty MacDonald<\/li>\n<li><i>Harold and the Purple Crayon<\/i> by Crockett Johnson<\/li>\n<li><i>There&#8217;s No Such Thing as a Dragon<\/i> by Jack Kent<\/li>\n<li><i>When I Was Very Young<\/i> by A.A. Milne<\/li>\n<li><i>The Digging-est Dog<\/i> by Al Perkins<\/li>\n<li>all of the <i>Pettson &#038; Findus books<\/i> by Sven Nordqvist<\/li>\n<li><i>Feathers For Lunch<\/i> by Lois Ehlert<\/li>\n<li><i>Mouse Paint!<\/i> and <i>Mouse Count!<\/i> by Ellen Stoll Walsh<\/li>\n<li><i>Barnyard Dance<\/i>, and <i>Moo Baa La La La<\/i> by Sandra Boynton<\/li>\n<li><i>The Star-Bellied Sneetches<\/i> by Dr. Seuss<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Bright and Beautiful Birthday Wishes to <a href=\"http:\/\/travelertrish.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">travelertrish<\/a>!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/sandraboynton.com\/sboynton.com.data\/Components\/Animation\/Shortestsong.mov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to it here!<\/a> \ud83d\ude00<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s probably no secret that I love children&#8217;s books. I love the illustrations and the stories. I love the fantasy, the world-building, the freedom, the problem-solving. I love the evocation of earlier times. I love the imagination that flowers and blossoms and swells out of them. I can&#8217;t remember learning to read. I think I&#8217;ve always known how. I&#8217;ve been speed-reading since I was a child as well, and since reading was my primary and favorite source of entertainment, I&#8217;ve read A LOT. I keep good books, and I hunt down books I read as a child so I can&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5711,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/5711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}