The Elves and the Shoemaker
Alice in Wonderland
Wind in the Willows
You know I can't think of any at the moment.
I do remember reading a big book of Mother Goose over and over.
Maybe, The Little Brute Family
Not warm and fuzzy but I used to love my Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn stories.
shareI read them too db, actually The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was one of our set books in my 13th year.
shareBoth great choices db👍
Tom was fine, childhood adventure story telling
Huck was a big step up though
Another level
Political and social satire hidden in a fun adventure yarn
Huck is one of the best books ive ever read
I also used to read the Tarzan novels and then E. R. Burroughs had another action/adventure series featuring Pellucidar, a mythical primitive world within the center of the earth. I soaked those books up like a sponge.
shareI read a lot of the Tarzan stories
Loved them
Jack London was a hell of an outdoors/adventure writer too
'To Light a Fire...'
Only read it once about 30 years ago but i still think of it often during the winters here
Speaking of which, I think I'll watch this shortly : https://moviechat.org/tt0067388/Man-in-the-Wilderness Looks kind of ideal right now.
shareIt's the goods. John Huston makes it very special.
shareYeah, and I can remember A Man Called Horse being very popular a year earlier, also starring Harris.
share"Horse" is a little stagy & pompous.
I'll probably tune in that "Man" now. You got me snortin' over it. I saw it all week and kept bypassing it, but, I'm hooked.
Also AMC is showing "Open Range" now & then "Unforgiven" after that.
I don't think I've ever rewatched AMCH. I do remember there was a sequel.
I'm surprised MITW slipped by me but I'll definitely be making my comparisons to The Revenant when I watch it.
I also have AMC. Great network.
Both great movies. I think Open Range is very underrated.
shareYep. I so enjoy the diner scene where Costner + Russo square off. It's a fantastic scene. It's killing time and Costner's character is all about nothing else. Just a bit of wry smile dawns in his face as he transfer's the rifle and rests his hand on his holstered gun. He desires Russo to draw on him. And Russo is perfect for this part.
Just a bit of sympathy for him all around. He and the girl have had some kind of, not a relationship, but, an approach by Russo and she's rejected him out of hand. The rejection now comes back in full force. Before he brushed it off by not being seen by her in the town. Now, he must deal with it and his self destruction. It's fine work by Costner's production.
As I've noted recently I do not care for the protracted ending, but, apart from that it's a fine film.
The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and the various Narnia novels were great
I read all of those many times
Watership Down was neither warm nor fuzzy but oh boy did it put ideas in my head about society, friendship, fidelity and so on...
I may have read and re-read it at too young an age but Watership Down meant a lot to me
I really need to re-read WD
I never finished WD to my shame, my paternal grandmother gave it to me because she knew I was an avid reader, for some reason it just didn't engage me. I kept it for years though.
shareMay this thread go on for a long time!
I abandoned my house full of guests just now to dig up my old, yellowed copy of Watership Down
Im giving it another read this week thanks to this thread
Much obliged Dazed🐰
It took 20 or so pages for me to engage, but once I did, wow. I read that whole long book in less than 24 hours. Stayed up all night to finish it. That's my all-time record and doubt I'll ever beat it. Grabbed me by the throat and wouldn't let go until I turned the last page!
Great book, but yeah, doesn't exactly leave you with the warm and fuzzies!
For warm and fuzzies, although it takes a while to get to them, The Incredible Journey.
To Kill A Mockingbird, which was the first grown-up book I read. Warm and fuzzies there.
Those are the only two I can think of. There are others I loved, but weren't much in the way of warm and fuzzies.
Watership Down was neither warm nor fuzzy but oh boy did it put ideas in my head about society, friendship...
Animal Farm was brilliant
I had to read it twice to really learn the lessons from this book as a young boy
Orwell was ahead of his time
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I've had to do the Wikipedia thing for these, but great books. Do you read them to your grandkids?
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Make Way For Ducklings
Blueberries for Sal
Walt Disney's Stories, including and particularly Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Lady & the Tramp, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty.
Hansel & Gretel.
The Ugly Duckling
Thumbelina
Mother Goose Poems.
The Cat in the Hat
Happy Birthday to You.
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
Eloise in Paris
Madeline
Dumbo
Russian Folk Tales
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MJF reminded me of the all the Dr. Seuss books.
Had quite a few.
Green Eggs and Ham
Are You My Mother
A Fish out of Water
Encyclopedia Brown
Hardy Boys
There is a series of books I remember reading about an Indian brave.
I just remembered it's Squanto!
Anything by William Campbell Gault.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
shareThe Elves and the Shoemaker too. One of my earliest pictures shows me looking in the book as a baby.
The Indian and the Cupboard. It's magical and a good way to be introduced to history.
Huckleberry Finn. My great uncle gave me his copy dated 1912 when I was real young, which I still have.
Treasure Island. The first book that taught me not everyone is good in life.
The Three Musketeers. My first book that taught me not everyone is good or bad.
The Prince and the Pauper. Made me realize that the grass is not always greener on the other side.
A Fly Went By from Dr. Suess. I have my mom's banged up one she had since the early 60s. Has a scribble drawing of hers that looks like a penguin crossed with a chicken.
I will stop while I'm ahead. I learned how to read at age 2, before I learned how to walk.