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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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Ayame
Weeping Willow Pines.
I loved that book! :D It was very well done, and I think I liked the pictures of food. I know I sound like a glutton, but I used to love looking at pictures of food, especially illustrations. If there was a picture of a garden, I would always spend extra time looking for peas and other vegetables.
I still love looking at these illustrations.
I still love looking at these illustrations.
Not Meowth
Cat, are you drilling?
Never heard of it.
If it's not about a fat little caterpillar eating crap loads of food I don't want to either. XD
Murkrow
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Never heard of the faraway tree?
What about Noddy?
The Famous Five?
The Secret Seven?
Old Catch
N t al th r .
The Noddy shop? Noddy was, like, a little wooden elf or something?
Anyway, when you said The Faraway Tree, it reminded me of The Giving Tree, which made me cry when I was little. That damned ungrateful kid. Anyone remember it?
Old Catch
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Seconded. Wow, I loved that so much. ^^Best book ever:
Alexi
The Religion section is now a joke
OMFG I loved that book. Hated the kid but loved the book. D:
Old Catch
N t al th r .
Hey, someone remembered! Yeah, that kid sucks. And then, at the end, he sits on the tree's stump... which is just adding insult to injury, in my mind.
Not Meowth
Cat, are you drilling?
Murkrow
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Favourite childhood book?
'Y Tŵr at yr Haul'
Meaning 'The Tower to the Sun', it was an amazing book, there was so much pollution that they couldn't see the sun anymore so they built a tower. They ran out of stuff to build it with so they started using weird things like tetris, impossible stairs and other optical illusions, the leaning tower of pisa, windows logo, the shoe that the old lady lives in, etc. it was epic.
Not Meowth
Cat, are you drilling?
AWESOME.Favourite childhood book?
'Y Tŵr at yr Haul'
Meaning 'The Tower to the Sun', it was an amazing book, there was so much pollution that they couldn't see the sun anymore so they built a tower. They ran out of stuff to build it with so they started using weird things like tetris, impossible stairs and other optical illusions, the leaning tower of pisa, windows logo, the shoe that the old lady lives in, etc. it was epic.
Was this published exclusively in Welsh?
Murkrow
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The way you emphasized 'exclusively' is sounds like you mean Welsh books are a rare thing :(
Yes, I think so, anyway :D
I read it so many times. The weird thing is that it was built by some random old guy who could remember the sun and what it looked like and he wanted to see it one last time.
I kept wondering why all the different countries let him take their precious wonders, landmarks and monuments to build it.
Not Meowth
Cat, are you drilling?
Actually I meant I really really want to read it without learning Welsh.
Crap.
A random senile old dude built the tower? HOW COULD THE WELSH HOG THIS BOOK?!
Otherwise the awesome book couldn't be written.
Ayame
Weeping Willow Pines.
What, is the message 'The sun is the most important wonder of all?'
surskitty
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So true. So very true. I refuse to acknowledge the existence of anyone who disagrees.
so is it a hat or a snake that has swallowed an elephant
Dr Seuss is rather impressive, really.
Old Catch
N t al th r .
I think it's that people have bbecome so reliant on technology that we fail to notcie the beauty or simple joy of nature. Or something.
Dannichu
Tragically unbeyachted.
Favourite childhood book?
'Y Tŵr at yr Haul'
Meaning 'The Tower to the Sun', it was an amazing book, there was so much pollution that they couldn't see the sun anymore so they built a tower. They ran out of stuff to build it with so they started using weird things like tetris, impossible stairs and other optical illusions, the leaning tower of pisa, windows logo, the shoe that the old lady lives in, etc. it was epic.
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I LOVE COLIN THOMPSON.
SO MUCH.
All his books are, without exception, amazing. They're the most breathtakingly illustrated books I've ever, ever seen; they're only about 30 pages long, but I can spend hours just staring at the detail and beauty of the pictures.
And they're not normal happy kid's books, either. My absolute favourite book by him, How To Live Forever, is about a boy who lives in a library and hears about a book that grants you eternal life. He searches high and low for the book (the sheer magnificence of the pictures of the bookshelves can't be captures in a low-res image like this, but it gives you an idea) before finding the Immortal Child, who read the book many, many years ago and hasn't aged a day since. He explains the pain of having to watch his friends grow up and have children; he says "I thought I had everything, but all I had were endless tomorrows.". Guh, it's just amazing.
The Last Alchemist, Looking for Atlantis, The Paperbag Prince and Falling Angels used to make me tear up. Probably still would.
But I really, really can't stress just how brilliant, beautiful and amazing all of his books are <3 If you're ever bored and in a library (hey; it could happen), go to the kid's picture books section and see if you can find any of his books.
Edit: Haha, I just ordered How To Live Forever off eBay in a fit of fangirliness (I fangirl over children's bookwriters. My fangirliness clearly knows no bounds).
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