Cimorene is the best!!! Literally my life goals are Dealing with Dragons. I don't care if dragons aren't real, i'm going to be one's princess anyways
dragon rider was the first Big Book i read, i dont remember a lot about it but i was 8 and i remember it kickstarted my love of dragons. guardians of gahoole, warrior cats, the mistmantle chronicles, redwall. i spent years developing a entire AU warrior cats story with 52487238643756325672 self insert OC's and it was Terrible. i did the same with the gahoole series. i dont think i developed an elaborate self insert spinoff of the mistmantle series but holy fuck, i definitly had one for redwall. oh god. narnia! i have nice pretty illustrated copies of the first two books in the series, i never read any of the others and judging from what i have since learned i am Glad. and animorphs, just, animorphs. i love that series so much but i remember i started to read it in a weird order because at the time i was still like, pretty young and didn't understand how book series worked and stuff. also they were constantly flowing in and out of my elementary school library so i would read the books as they became avalible, which wasn't in numerical order. i remember finally reading the first book and being really confused about tobias being a human. and! percy jackson!!! i would read anything by rick riorden honestly i still look out for his books i love them. and also just his representation is really really refreshing so many characters are explicitly poc, and his whole demigod concept involves everyone having brainweird. and i remember baby me absolutely devoured the harry potter series, i got into them fairly late in the game and therefore could binge them all in a row, in like a week. which isn't an exageration i could read so fast. i still can, sometimes, but brainshit has kind of messed with that :/. i frickin loved the little house on the prairie series, ive read each book so many times it's honestly embarassing. keys to the kingdom!!! shit those books were great. and pendragon! damn. holy shit darren shan Fucked Me Up. but not as much as the demonota did though i still get chills from that series like... holy shit. the power of five was fun but i got bored waiting and never read the fifth :P i read the alex rider series though and i remember being Really Disapointed. when i was a kid i was really isolated and didn't have any concept of fandoms so i would basically devour books in the "in one ear and out the other" kind of way, or i would read the same book like 10 times, or more. basically i have so many unexplored feelings about all these i just?????? YELLS!!!!!!!! this is great. also i read the clan of the cave bear series when i was like. 11. that was Wild
SAME saaaaaaaaaaaame she was my Life Goals, seriously. someday when either I have long hair again or can get a mega wig, I'm gonna dress as her.
you know, on the one hand, in retrospect there was a lot of weird shit going on with gender roles and consent in that universe. also it was probably way too sexual for me when I first read it, which to my recollection was somewhere in the 8-10 range. on the other hand, I fuckin' loved it and it was great. (I was gonna have either a green or a bronze dragon, obviously.)
I feel like I'm the only person who DIDN'T read pern as a kid or, well, I technically read a chapter of a random pern book, because it was in those big compiled books that everyone had for english
Pern had some really weird shit going on with gender, consent, and science, but man. Man. The Menolly books are still my go to h/c, because being a Weird Art Kid who felt like they couldn't do art or fit in made those hit home like whoa.
I still haven't read the dragonriders of pern series -stares at first book on my shelf- but I did read the harper hall trilogy set in the same universe as a kid!! I want a flock of mini dragons ;-;
Oh man, I know exactly which thing you're talking about! It took me YEARS to find what series it was from. And yet I've only read the first one. I'm stopping there before it gets too far into weird gender/consent stuff
idk what happens in the main series, but the second book of the harper hall trilogy is basically 'main character destroys the patriarchy by being really good at music' the book, so that's fun to read
vague fever dream memories of the old Strawberry Shortcake cookbook that had adorable illustrations, and a Poochie book that I loved as well for the illustrations but that I didn't get on the boat for cartoonwise bc I didn't know it existed. But PAWPRINT FLOWERS MAN, IT MAKES ME WANNA LOOK INTO IT ANY TIME I REMEMBER IT EXISTS. Spoiler
well, uh, the gender stuff is by and large garden-variety misogyny, from what I can remember, although there are definitely great female characters. also there's gendered assignations of dragons, and also kind of Anne McCaffery not understanding how gay people work?? but yeah, the consent stuff is... well, dragon mating flights do a number on their riders, let's say, and the riders don't really have a choice in the matter. :/ so yeah. if that sounds like it'd bug you, best give it a miss.
Just remembered some lighthearted kids books I still love to this day- the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books and the Wayside School ones. Did anyone else read those?
Thanks to a random transformers post I was reminded these books existed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catwings Did anyone else read these?
OK I do not remember the book name but. A series about some kids who can get certain totem items in the real world (a book, a glass horse) and then when they fall asleep they wake up in parallel universe Italy, where silver is more valuable than gold? Anyone read those? The first book ends with the main kid Spoiler dying in the real world from cancer and becoming fully in the parallel world. eta: the Stravaganza series! that was it. incidentally I'm still trying to remember the name of that book trilogy about not-egypt/greece.
