Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
I got hold of a copy of Animal Farm by George Orwell when I was about 11. It was a strange book to me as an 11 year old. I read it carefully and discussed and analysed the story and what Orwell was saying in great depth with my dad. This book certainly made me think and what I took from it stirred in me the beginnings of a political/social conscience. I still have a copy somewhere.Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
As a young child both 'The Water Babies' and 'Black Beauty' affected me greatly .Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
I was a bit of a mixed bag as a child. On the one hand I was incredibly active and loved sport and anything in the outdoors. On the other hand, if I was indoors, I was either building something with my Meccano set or I had my head buried in a book. Lots of books were influential for me - Jack London's novels stimulated my love for the outdoors, the frozen north, huskies and social justice; Richmal Crompton's "Just William" novels helped develop my sense of humour and lack of respect for "authority"; John Wyndham's science fiction novels opened up the scary world of the unknown. Probably the most influential of all however, was an old set of Encyclopaedia Brittanica which my parents picked up for next to nothing from a jumble sale - I would spend hour upon hour browsing random topics and learning, second hand, about our amazing world. Those old encyclopaedias were like a treasure trove of knowledge - something I have never tired of.Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
'Black Beauty', oh I never have got over Ginger's death...Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
I still have my copies of White Fang and Call of the Wild.Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
I was an avid Enid Blyton fan too (especially the Famous Five of which I was lucky enough to acquire the complete set) but the books that made me look at life differently were probably some of the same as above. I would certainly also include Anne Frank and Animal Farm, 1984, and I think Children of the New Forest set me off being interested in historical novels.Re: Which childhood book made you look at life differently?
The Time Machine --H G Wells, I found that book absolutely unputdownable (?) and of course Jack London's books I remember going to the library and after I'd picked my books often had to pick up one for my Dad , he liked Zane Grey westerns etc and he always said that if page 72 had a pencil mark at the end of the last word on the page not to borrow it as he'd read it and as it was in the adult section, I had to have a note as well as his library ticket ,lol
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