Your Favorite Childhood Book (12 of 30)

Today, I am tempted to write about the fact that someone came into our home and stole our possessions. I am tempted to write about how they didn't just steal from me, they stole from my children because they took their xbox one and their PS3, things that we have worked hard for them to have. I'm not going to write about that though...because I've been looking forward to this post and I'm not letting that person have this too...maybe another night.

I LOVED to read as a kid. I would get in trouble because I would read so much that I wouldn't do my homework or chores. I learned how to read quickly and I could get through a book in no time flat. I was also grounded a LOT so I had a LOT of time to read.

My all-time favorite book that I still own today is 'Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry'. It's written by Mildred D. Taylor and it's about a poor, African American Family in the deep south in the 1930's. The Logan children take us on a journey of how racist and unjust America, especially the deep South, was like during that time. I loved the history of it. I can hear their accents as I read about Strawberry, MS and hear the tails through the view point of Cassie Logan. I actually read this again two summers ago. I was incredibly excited to find it at a garage sale. There is a sequel this book called 'Let the Circle Be Unbroken'. Also a very good book and I actually love sequels to books, much more so than sequels to movies (unless it's a Die Hard or Fast & Furious movie)!

Another great book that we read in 8th grade with Mrs. Miller was 'Gentlehands' by M.E. Kerr. This book is a teenage boy, Buddy, who discovers that his grandfather was a Nazi war criminal during WWII.  'Gentlehands' reminds us that people are not always what they appear and it teaches us that sometimes we have to wrestle with the demons of life not always being completely black and white; that sometimes what we think is good can also be filled with bad. I think that the quote "winners never cheat and cheaters never win" comes from that book but I am not able to pinpoint it exactly. I know that's where I THINK it came from and that I repeat that to my children often.

There are so many other books that I could write about but these two stood out the most as great "childhood" books. As far as kids books, I adore 'Is Your Mama a Llama', 'Where the Wild Things Are', pretty much anything by Dr. Seuss, and 'I'll Love  You Forever'.