"If you don't have time
to read, you don't have the time
(or the tools) to write. Simple as that."
--Stephen King, On Writing
I have about a million favorite books. Those below are listed because I've read each of them over and over and over...and I never get tired of them. (I also like making lists!)
Ten of my favorite books when I was a child...
What Then, Raman? by Shirley Arora
Tales of a Korean Grandmother, by Frances Carpenter
Half Magic, by Edward Eager
The Four-Story Mistake, by Elizabeth Enright
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, by E.L. Konisburg
The Borrowers, by Mary Norton
Roosevelt Grady, by Louisa Shotwell
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
All-of-a-Kind Family, by Sydney Taylor
The Long Winter, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Man with the Purple Eyes, by Charlotte Zolotow
(OK, so that's eleven...I couldn't bear to leave any of them off the list...)
Two especially beloved picture books
Rain Makes Applesauce, by Julian Scheer
Over and Over, by Charlotte Zolotow
Ten
of my favorite books for young people
now that I'm not a child
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
What Then, Raman? by Shirley Arora
The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia Maclachlan
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
Woodsong, by Gary Paulsen
Holes, by Louis Sachar
Roosevelt Grady, by Louisa Shotwell
A few more favorites:
My favorite Harry Potter book is the third one, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. By J.K. Rowling, of course!
Some of my favorite writers for adults include Robertson Davies and James Joyce. I also like mysteries by Elizabeth George, Stephen Greenleaf and P.D. James.
My favorite food books are An Omelette and a Glass of Wine, by Elizabeth David, The Art of Eating, by M.F.K. Fisher, and Outlaw Cook, by John Thorne.
