Which book do you remember the most from your childhood?

@ArishMell all great books.

I read Winnie the Pooh as an adult. And I think it is a masterpiece. I find it hard to describe what is so great about it, it is just a nice warm feeling you get when following the simple ideas. It might be the sense of simplicity that you loose as an adult, overcomplicating things - and Pooh looks at things so drastically different... I don't know, hard to grasp it :)

@sumojumo I must admit I had not thought of it in that way, but yes, I think you are right.

Another point in its favour is that although aimed at children up to about 5 or 6 ([i]The House At Pooh Corner[/i] ends the pair of books with Christopher about to start school), it does not talk down to children, and has quite a wide vocabulary.

I like the use of capital letters to denote Very Important Things - I wonder if this was as much to entertain the parents by sly satire, as the children by simple word fun and cues to important story details.

That satire came back to me when my then-employer went through a messy and over-complicated phase to obtain ISO9001 registration enforced by its primary customer. It made me remember almost verbatim, Wol over-complicating his advice to Pooh on searching for Eeyore's lost tail. A huge and very expensive, bureaucratic, managerial fad put into perspective by just three lines of dialogue between an imaginary owl and a toy bear, in a children's story!

@summersong Oh, Beatrix Potter has a nice way of saying things.

@sumojumo yes! And her illustrations complement her words so well

@sumojumo Oh, how lovely!
The thing I remember most is Heidi stealing the white bread rolls and hiding them in the wardrobe 😄

@Moonpenny :)
I remember the wheelchair the most, I think it shocked me that the other girl (was her name Klara?) could not walk

@sumojumo Yes, that was her name.

@SW-User We had waiting lists to get Famous Five (our translations) in our library. We loved them so much.

@sumojumo [c=#4C0073]julian, dick, anne and georgina the tomboy .. and their dog <3[/c]

@SW-User if I look back, all the books had basically the same plot :), but we did not notice that at the time :D

@SW-User we were all little weirdos, everything gross was fascinating to us