When I think about Speed Skating it always makes me think of the book Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates. (You can read the book for free online at Project Gutenburg.) The late 19th century story is about a boy and his sister who want to compete in the big skating race on the canal because they want the prize, a pair silver skates. I remember reading this book as a child and thinking how wonderful it would be to skate outside on a frozen canal. It would feel like you were flying over ice.
Today's bonus prize comes from the I Heart Daily co-founder who recently interviewed swoon-worthy speed skater J.R. Celski: LOVESTRUCK SUMMER by Melissa Walker. Here is the blurb:
This is the story of Quinn, an indie rock girl who came out to Austin, Texas for a music internship.
She also plans to spend long, lazy days in the sun at outdoor concerts--and to meet a hot musician or two. Instead, she's stuck rooming with her sorority brainwashed cousin, who now willingly goes by the name 'Party Penny.' Their personalities clash, big time.
But Sebastian, a gorgeous DJ, definitely makes up for it. Sebastian has it all: looks, charm, and great taste in music. So why can't Quinn keep her mind off Penny's friend cute, All-American Russ and his Texas twang?
One thing's certain: Quinn's in for a summer she'll never forget!
What a fun way to warm up from this winter chill!
And to enter today's contest, tell me about a favorite book from childhood. (My big three are The Westing Game, The Egypt Game, and From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.) Answer in comments for your chance to win Oh. My. Gods. and Goddess Boot Camp and LOVESTRUCK SUMMER.
SPEED SKATING CONTEST
Answer this question: What was your favorite book as a child?
PRIZES
(1) copy of Oh. My. Gods.
(1) copy of Goddess Boot Camp
(1) copy of LOVESTRUCK SUMMER by Melissa Walker
Enter below and check back tomorrow (and the day after that and the day after that) for a new contest. Winners of all contests will be posted after February 28th.
And don't forget the other contests:
Gold Medal Contest
COOP2 1 HEIST SOCIETY by Ally Carter
COOP2 2 MY SOUL TO TAKE and MY SOUL TO SAVE by Rachel Vincent
COOP2 3 TATTOO and FATE by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
COOP2 4 BALLADS OF SUBURBIA by Stephanie Kuehnert
Hugs,
TLC
73 comments:
I think my favorite book as a child is Harry Potter 1. I have always like to read, but this was the book that make me a fan of reading. It opens me to world of fantasy and magic, and since then I can stop reading.
I had a huge fairy tale book which is in our 'main library' right now. It had all the old fairy tales, in its unedited gory glory. I loved reading it because of all the morals in the story. Nowadays' fairy tales? Blehs. Happy endings with no morals or hard work. Psssh.
Anne of Green Gables, without a doubt!
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My favourite book as a child 8i still love to read it today) was "Ronja, The Robber's Daughter" by Astrid Lindgren. It has it all: a very brave and adorable heroine, an equally cool hero, a magical world with unbelievable creatures, a great story-line with many unexpected twists and turns and a lot of tension, believable emotions, a happy end, heros that acted like real people...
Now as a teenager, i also love the message(s) in the book: you can do anything you want to, if you just put your heart and soul into it; don't be misled by the first impression; and above all: Be Yourself!
An aweinspiring example of how children's literature should be.
Ohh this is an easy one: my fav book of childhood has to be the Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth Speare. I WILL go to the Barbados one day because of this book - I'm just sayin'.
E.B. White's Charlotte's Web will always hold a special place in my heart. It is probably the first book that ever made me cry, and it still brings me to tears each time I read it. Love that book! Two of my other childhood favorites were L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and Louisa Mae Alcott's Little Women.
Eek! SpellingFAIL. That was meant to say "Louisa MAY Alcott."
My favorite book was Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop. I always thought it would be cool to be able to shrink and play in my Barbie houses, which is what happens to the boy in the book. Except for he is playing in a castle, not Barbie's dream house.
Your mention of The Egypt Game reminds me of one of my favourites, The Witches of Worm, also by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. I first read it when I was six and it scared me half to death...but it stuck with me and ever since I've reread it at least once a year.
When I rescued a kitten I'd found in the woods last summer, my sister tried to convince me I should name her Worm, after the kitten in the book. Not happening!
I always liked the Nancy Drew books and the Grimms brother faerytales.
My favorite book as a child was the Amelia Bedelia books, about a fun housekeeper.
The Little House on the Prairie Series. Read them over and over and over.
The Amelia Bedelia series by Peggy Parish were my favorite books when I was little. My mom and I used to crack up about the halarious things Amelia would do! Till this day my favorite thing was when she "pitches" a tent.Instead of setting the tent up Amelia throws the tent into the woods! I have a little sister now and she won't sit still long enough for me to read them to her but i'm very excited for her to get a little older so that I can read them to her.
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What Do You Say Dear? is one that comes to mind. My mom would read it to me and I would answer back with the polite answers.
She'd also read The Runaway Bunny to me. It's one of her favorites. I love it too!
I read The Boxcar Children books. I would read them over and over and they were my obsession.
Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch - SO sweet!
My favorite book was The Little Princess. It's about a little rich girl who goes to a boarding school and is treated like a pricess. When she suddenly becomes poor, she loses her friends and is treated like a slave instead of royalty. But she meets a little girl and they tell stories of being beautiful pricesses to make themselves feel better. Then, one day a man comes and takes the little girls in and they are happy little princesses again. This is such a heartwarming story and i recommend it to all of you. it's so sweet and it can make you remember when you too wanted to be a princess.
my favourite book as a child was: "So Blue" in English, and in Spanish "Tan Azul"
As a child my favorite book was Dr. Seuss' Are You My Mother? (:
It has to be a toss-up between E.B. White's "Charlotte Web" and Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women."
I loved the Laura Ingles Wilder books. The best known one, Little House on the Prairie, was my favorite. I read those books too many times to count. I really loved them. I still have them. They sit on my new bookcase along with many of my other past favorite books.
I loved Are You There God? It's Me, Margraet by Judy Blume. It was a grea eye-opener and coming of age story. It was also what lead me into the world of realistic fiction. I was a die-heart fantasy and historic fiction reader.
My favOrite was GO Dog Go because it was fun to read and do hand motions to :)
I don't really have one favorite book from my childhood but I loved the Winnie The Pooh picture books. I still have most of them and they are just so cute. Once I grew up a little the Harry Potter books took their place as my favorites. =]
Galax-Arena by Gillian Rubinstein. It was my favorite book when I was young and it still is.
My fav book as a child was Castles In The Air by Diana Wynne Jones.
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I loved the Nancy Drew series!
I loved the Nancy Drew series!! I thought they were pretty awesome. :)
it's really hard to pick just one, but i have to say that i really liked The Bailey School Kids series because they were all about fantasy creatures and my favorite one (#26) was about a mermaid teacher :)
i loved enid blyton books as a kid!! i still do infact. but i do remember reading and re-reading the wishing chair.
Forever by Judy Blume.
I was 12 and it was oh so risque with its hooked rugs and parts of the anatomy called Ralph.
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Woah, this is so hard becuase I read like 10 books a week, and my favourite book changes with every book I read (!), I think it would most likely be Harry Potter or The Princess Diaries ;)
My favourite book was probably one of the Point Horror books or the first Harry Potter book - I don't remember what I used to read before that, but those were ones I loved when I was about 9-12.
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As a child, my favourite book was Johanna Spyri's Heidi. I was so attached to it, I'd carry it everywhere with me. Not only did it get me into reading, it also got me writing.
It's got to be between the first Harry Potter book by JK Rowling (of course), and The Littlest Mermaid by Wendy Cheyette Lewison & illustrated by Jerry Smath(I was a huge mermaid fan, and this one came with jeweled stickers! I probably read it a billion times when I was really little). The latter isn't much of a reading book, but it was fun to look at the artwork! :)
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I really loved The Giver by Lois Lowry
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My favorite book as a child would have to be Freddy and the Flying Saucer Plans by Walter R. Brooks, although I loved the entire Freddy series and still do. (They're even better on audiobook narrated by John MacDonough).
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As a really little kid, I adored the Frog and Toad books. But as I was a bit older I loved Katherine Roberts books like Spellfall.
The lovely Mrs. Walker directed me here, and I'm glad because this blog looks like so much fun!
Anyways...
As a child my favorite book was Charlotte's Web. I still love that book!
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I loved the Nancy Drew books.
'The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh' was my favorite....
THE EGYPT GAME? I loved that.
But my absolute, number one favorite book as a kid was WATERSHIP DOWN.
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When I was really little I truly loved "Arthur's Honey Bear" by Lillian Hoban. Then I went on to love "The Diary of Anne Frank", "Forever", and tons more. I have always been such a voracious reader that my favorites changed quite frequently. They still do!
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My favorite books were Goosebumps.
I loved A Bargain for Frances as a really young child, and The Story of Ping. Then, when I got older, I loved Goodbye Stacey, Goodbye from The Baby-Sitter's Club.
I loved reading as a childhood and so I had a lot of 'favourites' but the one that stands out in my memory is Eric Carle's The Hungry Catepillar.
I loved the counting, (gently) sticking my fingers through the holes in the pages and then the beautiful surprise at the end.
Well, I started reading from a very young age. When i was seven i was reading Harry Potter. My favorite book from when i was really little is Nora Jean the Jumping Bean. But my favorite overall is the Harry Potter. Ive been addicted for about eight years. i have the action figures, the movie, ive read each of the books about a kajillion times....yea, childhood was pretty sweet. <333
I love Dr Seuss' books!
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Emily said...
it's really hard to pick just one, but i have to say that i really liked The Bailey School Kids series because they were all about fantasy creatures and my favorite one (#26) was about a mermaid teacher :)
Probably, mine was the Abby Hayes series or The Series of Unfortunate Events =) Before that, I never read much...
Probably the Harry Potter series.
i loved pretty much anything by judy blume =]
My favorite childhood book was The Westing Game.
I think my first favorite book was Rent a Third Grader, after that my favorite series was the Sweet Valley Twins, Sweet Valley High (and anything else Sweet Valley), the Thouroughbred series, the Secret Circle trilogy, L.J. Smith, Christopher Pike, Where the Red Fern Grows, and a lot of them are still my favorites today.
My favorite book would be a series actually. The Boxcar Children series, I loved the books! I also enjoyed the A to Z mysteries by Ron Roy. I guess you can say I was a big fan of mystery books.
I love From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler too! That book left a lasting impression in my mind.
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This is a tough one, because I wasn't much into books as a child. I think I would have to say The Fantastic Mr Fox or The Magic Finger, both by Roald Dahl. I remember reading them as I listened to the audio tapes on a casette player at school, and really liking them. They were pretty good!
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine!
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This is a tough one because I didn't have a favorite book, but more like a favorite series - Girl Talk. I wanted to be just like Randy (she's a girl, btw) and couldn't wait to be in Junior High (I think I was in the 3rd or 4th grade when these books came out.) I still have all my copies too.
I had so many favorite books as a child, but one that stands out the most is Matilda by Roald Dahl. It was the first novel that introduced me to the possibilities of humor and eccentricity in books. I was absolutely besotted with the idea that a little girl like me could posses such intellect and the power to move objects with her mind. The fact that Matilda was an ardent reader only heightened my love for her. If she had the ability to defy her circumstances, I too could reach my goals.
Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary. I thought Ramona was SO funny. Thanks for the giveaways.
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My favorite book as a child was probably Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt. It is the only book I've ever read twice.
Hmmm...seems like I'm a fish out of watter here. Favorite kid book? Easy: Robert Heinleine's "Have Space Suit, Will Travel."
OK this is going to sound pretentious but I read Jane Eyre when I was 9 and still love it today
In my v. former years (which isn't really that far..), I used to read A Children's Treasury of Poetry & Rhymes; and then something else to do about a bunch of rabbits
'Shadow Castle' by Marion Cockrell. When I was very young I found a battered copy at my grandma's house with my mother's name on the inside cover... I read it right there, LOVED it, and then asked my mom about it... and learned that it was her favorite book as a child. I was delighted and read it over and over... I still have that copy, and even though I don't think Cockrell ever wrote another book, it remains one of my favorites for both the story itself and the sentimental value.
When I was very little I loved Where the Sidewalk Ends and The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. I could read his poems all day. When I was a teen I loved the Harry Potter series, it's what got me interested in reading! :)
As a child I loved pretty much most Robert Munsch books :)
My favorite book as a child was probably "Are You my Mother?" It is really short, but very cute. I also loved this book called Charlie the Caterpillar (I think that was the title), and of course the classic Dr. Seuss books that were pretty amazing. I loved One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.
My favorite book from when I was younger is actually still my favorite. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. But Clifford was pretty cool, too.
My favorite book growing up was Love You Forever by Robert Munsch. My mom gave me that book one year for Easter or something. And it remains the sweetest book I have ever read.
My favorite book as a child was The little mouse, the red ripe strawberry, and the hungry bear. My read it to all my sisters and I ask we grew up, I read it to my preschoolers, Ive done felt boards iwth it, and my sister reads it to her two boys and they each have their individual copy. I can tell you the book without the book infront of me. Not only do I love the book but it brings back great memories of spending time with my mom and my sisters.
The favorite book of my childhood was Little Max the Cement Mixer. I found it again the other day and I had to read it all over again. I still love it. It is an awesome book about how you don't always have to be big to be useful. Great book.
My favorite book as a child was basically anything by Dr. Seuss.
I absolutely loved Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess. Except I had a paperback copy (which has since fallen apart due to old glue and variable weather conditions) so I loved to check out the hardcover copy from the library just so I could feel its smooth pages when I was reading it. It's no wonder I had such an imagination growing up with the likes of Sara and Anne (yes, huge L.M. Montgomery fan, too) for companions.
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