On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:09:30PM -0400, Starshadw at aol.com wrote: > Out of curiosity, am I the only one who still owns copies of AND reads books > I loved as a child? Books which are found in the young adult section? I > just picked up a new one today that I saw it and smiled because I remembered > reading it so many years ago. Oh, not at all. I go right through my battered collection of Louisa May Alcott from time to time, and the Harriet the Spy books. I even read YA books for the first time as an adult. I missed out on Zilpha Keatley Snyder and E.L. Koenigsberg and even L.M. Montgomery when I was actually a kid, but I reread them all now. And Katherine Paterson. I reread Madeleine L'Engle regularly too, although she does sometimes irritate me. And I was thrilled to find Barbara Sleigh's two Carbonel books on the Book Boat in Greenwich when I was in college. I thought that after I left the elementary school library where I found them I would never see them again, but now I own them. And David and I have copies of the Mushroom Planet books, too, and reread them with great pleasure. -- Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet (pddb at demesne.com) "I will open my heart to a blank page and interview the witnesses." John M. Ford, "Shared World"