10-01-2008, 02:20 AM
Harold and the Purple Crayon lit up my early childhood, too.
When my daughter was 1-2, we read a lot of Sandra Boynton. Red Hat, Green Hat was the sure-fire smile-getter.
And as a school-ager, these really colored my sense of humor and way of looking at the world:
- anything by Ellen Raskin, starting with The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel
- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
When my daughter was 1-2, we read a lot of Sandra Boynton. Red Hat, Green Hat was the sure-fire smile-getter.
And as a school-ager, these really colored my sense of humor and way of looking at the world:
- anything by Ellen Raskin, starting with The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel
- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.