We’re all working on a fun project around the office right now — assigned reading from a list of fantastic kids books. It’s amazing the kind of variety available in the children’s market right now, more so than when I was a kid I think. This project made me think of a question posed by one of my co-workers a couple weeks ago: If you could be trapped in a kids book, which one would it be?
Without even deliberating I said, “Duh, Harry Potter.” I actually said “duh”. How old am I? In any case, while that’s a fantastic answer (if I do say so myself), it’s a bit obvious.
So having given it more thought, I’ve decided it would be The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi. Charlotte is an upper-class British girl travelling by wooden vessel across the Atlantic Ocean. Over the course of her journey she becomes a member of the crew and is then forced to choose between the hard-won freedom of a sailor and a life of priviledge with the family she loves. It’s fantastic!
So I ask you, if you had to be stuck in a children’s book, which one would you choose?
6 responses so far ↓
1 Erin // Aug 3, 2006 at 3:23 pm
I’d want to be trapped into the Little House on the Prairie series. As a child I always loved these books. Life wasn’t always easy for the Ingalls, but it seemed that Laura always had fun and could find her way to a worthwhile adventure. Just one question: Can I bring my laptop?
2 Jen W. // Aug 4, 2006 at 5:49 pm
I actually have two worlds that I used to be obsessed with as a kid — C.S. Lewis’s Narnia (yes, we had a wardrobe and I DID actually try to bust through the back), and Norton Juster’s wacky world from that gem, “The Phantom Tollbooth.” I always wanted to be in that little car with Tock, encountering one crazy thing after another!
3 Nicole T. // Aug 4, 2006 at 7:24 pm
I always liked books that involved travel so I’m thinking about Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. How fun would it be to travel around in a flying, magical car with a wacky inventor and his family?
4 Casey // Aug 12, 2006 at 8:18 pm
I would like to be trapped in a book series called Animorphs. It’s about 5 kids and an alien save life as we know it. I’m still really into it.
5 Jen Robinson // Aug 13, 2006 at 8:59 pm
There are so many great books. I think that I would choose the Melendy books or Gone Away Lake, by Elizabeth Enright, because Enright had such a gift for knowing what kids will find cool. For a more recent title, I would choose The Penderwicks, by Jeanne Birdsall.
6 tellashleyhi // Nov 16, 2006 at 4:48 pm
i would want to be in a choo-choo-train book. TOTALY.
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