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Which book do you remember the most from your childhood?

After I finished my 5th grade I got Jonathan Livingstone Seagull. I have no idea what captured my imagination, but I still see it as a great book. I view it as a very simplistic view of life, but still a great piece of work nonetheless.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Several books, not just one, about equally. Including -

From my earliest years, Winnie The Pooh (by A.A. Milne, NOT Disney!).

From school, Thor Heyardhal's Kon Tiki Expedition, H.G. Wells' The History of Mr. Polly, and William Golding's Lord Of The Flies.

Outside school, Gavin Maxwell's Ring Of Bright Water.
sumojumo · 36-40, M
@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 :)
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@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 (The House At Pooh Corner 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!