Most Memorable Books

I read a Facebook quiz about most memorable movies (“films that for whatever reason linger in your imagination”), and I realized that, for me, the important question is which books live in my imagination. Here’s my short list (I guess this explains why I write kids fantasy):

Winnie the Pooh, and A.A. Milne’s poems;

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe;

The Harry Potter books, especially the early ones that I read out loud to my kids;

Swallows and Amazons;

Tamora Pierce – not any one book so much as her worlds and her characters generally;

Polar Express;

Where the Wild Things Are;

Jabberwocky;

Mary Stewart’s Merlin stories, starting with The Crystal Cave;

The Hobbit;

The Lord of the Rings.

The movies The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and the LOTR make the books more vivid for me, but I’m making a point to not see Polar Express or Where the Wild Things Are, as I don’t want to see the stories expanded beyond what I love.

Maureen