Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday post, thanks to That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt is technically Books I Wish I Had Read as a Child, but I’ve just given it a slight twist and made my post about Children’s Classics I Missed in my Childhood. When I thought about some of the books I would include in my list, I found I didn’t necessarily wish I had read them in my childhood, sometimes because I think I had a much greater appreciation for the story when discovering it as an adult, and sometimes because I’ve enjoyed discovering these classics alongside my own children. In fact, I’m still waiting to discover some of these!
Either way, here are some children’s classics that I didn’t read when I was a child. I’d love to know whether any of them were childhood favourites for you!
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Swallow and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
The BFG by Roald Dahl
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Ah this reminds me of how much I loved Winnie The Pooh! And how much I’ve missed out on by skipping Charlotte’s Web and Mary Poppins, haha. Great list!
My TTT: https://notprimadonna.blogspot.com/2020/04/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-enjoyed-when-i.html
Heidi and Secret Garden were my absolute childhood favorites! I have read ad re-read Heidi so many times 😍
I missed out on Charlotte’s web as well…this prompt has actually inspired me to read some of these simple-hearted children’s books as an adult to relive that innocent childhood..
My TTT: https://mybookishbanter.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/books-i-wish-i-had-read-as-a-child-top-10-tuesday/
I have read seven of these, but many as I got older, not as a child. I still have not read Little Women, and have not heard of The Railway Children or Amazon and Swallow. This is a great list.
I have read one of them as a kid because I’m German and it was the first book I ever received, Heidi. I have also read most of the others later in life.
I did a similar topic last year and therefore have linked to the one I did then (Top Ten Books I wish I read as a kid). My TTT today is an old one I missed (Books I’ll Never Read).
Charlotte’s Web and Black Beauty were among my favourite books when I was a kid!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/top-ten-tuesday-261/
I never read Mary Poppins either.
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I’ve read and enjoyed all of these but two, The Railway Children, and Swallows and Amazons. I’d never heard of either of these, but now I’ll have to go find them! 🙂
thanks for sharing!
Every time I see Charlotte’s Web I feel bad that someone didn’t read it as a child. Then, I remember how sad it was and think maybe you were spared. 😉
Loved so many of these – absolute trip down memory lane!
I wish I read Little Women as a kid too!
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