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This is a photo I took of some public art in La Jolla. Notice the grey sky? It's been like this. way. too. much.
[A trash can in La Jolla village--pretty, no?]
I'm jumping ahead to Day 13--childhood memory. For my childhood memory I chose my copy of The Phantom Tollbooth, which I got at my favorite used bookstore in my hometown sometime around age 10. It shared a shelf with some of my other favorites, Harriet the Spy, Matilda, and Charlotte's Web...and a whole gigantic mountain of Babysitter's Club books.
[The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster, illustrated by Jules Feiffer]
Did you have a favorite book when you were a kid? Do you still have your childhood copies?
5 comments:
I had The Phantom Tollbooth too! I still have a couple of my favorites ~ Matilda and The Secret Garden. :)
A cousin gave me The Phantom Tollbooth as a gift when I was young, but I never read it until much later because I thought the cover was boring. And when I did read it, I loved it. It definitely taught me never to judge a book by its cover.
ooh! i loved Enid Blyton's version of the Greek mythology... i forget the title of the book but it was a collection of the myths. I loveeeee mythology, fantasy what nots.... i think i still have the book at my mom's. Thank goodness it is a hard cover. it should still be intact!
Oh, I LOVE The Phantom Tollbooth! I remember I did my 4th grade book report on that book. I hadn't thought about it in years; thanks for jogging my memory! :)
I was more of a Ramona Quimby reader myself, but loved all the same books you did! I might have a few, but mine were mostly library copies. They have such fond memories for me.
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