{"id":12546,"date":"2011-07-25T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=12546"},"modified":"2011-07-23T09:53:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:53:42","slug":"childhood-classics-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/childhood-classics-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Classics Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I just finished reading a five book series that totals over 5,000 pages, so I decided it was time to take on something a little lighter.\u00a0 There are a few books from my childhood that even as an adult I find myself going back to often.\u00a0 The Giver<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Lois Lowry is still a book that I mark among my favorites.\u00a0 If you’ve never read it, it’s a story about a boy named Jonas who lives in a futuristic society where everything is under strict control in order to promote “Sameness”.\u00a0 Your jobs and spouses are chosen for you, people don’t really have emotions, and they no one can\u00a0even see colors.\u00a0 Even though it’s a great book to read as a kid, I love it more reading it as an adult because I can see the deeper meaning behind the story.\u00a0 I also recently re-read a book that I haven’t touched since I was too young to remember, A Wrinkle in Time<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Madeline L’Engle.\u00a0 In this sci-fi\/fantasy novel, Meg’s scientist father goes missing, and as she enlists a cast of unique characters in order to find him, she discovers that his work will take her to places she never imagined.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>A few days ago I\u00a0realized that, shockingly enough, I never got around to reading Katherine Paterson’s Newbery winning novel Bridge to Terabithia<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>when I was a kid.\u00a0 It’s about\u00a0a boy and girl\u00a0in the fifth grade who are sort of outsiders, but they form a close friendship through their creation of a mythical land called Terabithia.\u00a0 It was a really quick read, but it’s powerful and packs an emotional punch in the end.\u00a0 Fans of the Narnia series will enjoy the made-up land of Terabithia, while fans of more realistic fiction will enjoy the friendship between Jesse and Leslie and seeing how much Jesse grows as a person because of Leslie.\u00a0 There’s a good chance that I’ll be revisiting this one in the future.<\/p>\n

Do you have any books from your childhood that you revisit often?\u00a0 Or any children’s classics that you regret never reading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished reading a five book series that totals over 5,000 pages, so I decided it was time to take on something a little lighter.\u00a0 There are a few books from my childhood that even as an adult I find myself going back to often.\u00a0 The Giver by Lois[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[1683,156],"class_list":["post-12546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-childhood","tag-growing-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3gm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12546"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12572,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12546\/revisions\/12572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}