Childhood books

I reread Harry Potter at least once a year. I reread some Roald Dahl childhood books and it didn't have the same magic as an adult. Same with Peter Pan. I didn't remember them much, just the way they made me feel about reading. I've considered rereading other childhood books, but I don't want to ruin them lol. I might read them to my kids someday and hopefully experience the magic through their eyes ☺️ I'll be mildly horrified if they don't like Harry Potter though 😂

@Kelsey 🤣 maybe I’ll just read them to my kids! I’m talking like magic tree house and guardians of gahoole books.

I do it all the time and I’m 42yo. Just last year I read The Hobbit and LOTR, I also own those, plus the Harry Potter series, then, even though they’re not from my childhood, I own the hunger games and right now I’m reading the Chronicles of Narnia, I’m on The Silver Chair right now. Oh and & a week or so ago I read The Library of Shadows, which my PL has front & center in the “teen” section. I’m sure some people would find my reading list strange, but I don’t think the majority would find anything weird about the fact that I have read a mix of horror, true crime, fantasy, mystery, young adult, youth, history, documentary and historical fiction & romance in these past months, I don’t ever stick to any particular genre or age range.

i used to be obsesseddddd with the Warriors series as a kid, i’ve been wanting to re read them for years now! maybe i will now lol

I think I'm gonna try and revisit the series of unfortunate events. If I don't like it ill probably just read it to my daughter. Also the magic tree house books. Its been a while. When my daughter is older maybe 10 to 12 years, I wanna read her the goosebumps series.

No. I have some nostalgia on it and like to relive it. Plus, i read other books, middle school, to start making a collection for the kids when they are older.

@Janelle omg, can’t believe I didn’t even mention Goosebumps, that was both mine and my now teen’s first ever school book fair purchases. We don’t own much of the collection, although we’ve read quite a bit of it, but together we own about 25 of them, I bought a set of 10 as a kid and and that was exactly what my son’s first purchase was. I used to read them to my dad when I was little, and remember it well, they’re not that scary or anything, but, as a 1st grader, it was more fun to be all jumpy with someone else. I remember reading one alone in my room when older, probably 9ish, my dad must’ve peeked in and seen my face and knew a jumpy part was coming, bc he crawled into my room & grabbed my feet, just as the “toe eater” got her toes out the side of the kiddie pool, scary story within the book, not the actual storyline, got me good, it’s one of my fav memories after all this time.

Oh there’s nothing wrong with reading early childhood favs either, if you’re in the mood just go ahead and read them to them now, I promise they won’t mind, unless of course they’re like my strange kiddos Who take forever to allow me to read to them, the first thing my now teen ever let me read aloud was the Harry Potter books, he was nearly 2yo, just never got into those first children’s books or bedtime stories from a book, so I just told him stories about my childhood as bedtime stories. My 3.5yo was a bit different, waited until 3 to let me read to him & is perfectly happy reading anything from I love you to the moon and back 10x’s to The Hobbit, as long as he feels like he gets to stay up later. Lol

My secret indulgence is like the goosebumps and fear street books