Beneath her mask of beauty lay a web of violent death 😳
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This week is Books I Wish I Had Read As A Child.
I loved The Secret of NIMH but only recently read this.
Fun!
These look amazing.
I would have devoured these as a youngster.
All the awesome YA books that are now out.
I read Fablehaven as a kid and loved it!!! I remember not being able to put it down, and being so captivated by the world building.
ReplyDeleteMrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is on my list, too. Books I Wish I'd Read When I Was Young
ReplyDeleteYES TO ALL THE SCOOBY-DOO!!! Also, I'm with you on all the great YA is out now and not when I was growing up. I had to survive on Sweet Valley High and Lightning by Dean Koontz.
ReplyDeleteOmg Scooby Apocalypse looks amazing?! 😱 That cover is giving me major *grabby hands* feels! I need that comic in my life right now please... I've never heard of Fablehaven but it looks so good. Great list!
ReplyDeleteOOh nice ones!! I still need to read Extinction Trials and the rest of Scooby Apocalypse! The rest are new to me ones entirely. I think at the time of writing my post, I wasn't really understanding the question in the right terms. Plus the "child" part tripped me up even more. Had it been "teen" I might have done better, but I still was looking at it as "regretful." Hence the reason I totally changed the topic!
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Ooh, I bet I would have enjoyed The Secret Zoo too. Who doesn't want to sneak into a zoo?? That's even better than a museum!
ReplyDeleteI bet scooby-apocalypse would be awesome to read as a kid.
ReplyDeleteGreat list! I love The Secret of NIMH but I've never read the book.
ReplyDeleteI think you'd love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Honestly, the humour in it holds up really well for adult readers, too. (But no pressure to read it).
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Hey, I actually read 2 and 3 as a kid. Douglas Adams was big, when I was growing up, and I saw the move and read the secrets of Nimh. I wonder, if 35-40 years from now, teens will be reading a lot of the YA books we are reading now. There are some authors, who I think have managed to become new "classics", but I am curious.
ReplyDeleteScooby Apocalypse! lol Great list!
ReplyDeleteLisa @ https://hopewellslibraryoflife.wordpress.com/2020/04/28/top-ten-tuesday-books-i-wish-i-had-read-as-a-child/
So many of your choices look so cute - I definitely equate cute animals with younger reads.
ReplyDeleteThe Secret Zoo definitely would have been something I'd have read as a child, I loved animals (and still do!)
ReplyDeleteGreat list! I still have Fablehaven on my TBR!!
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I read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH as a child...and loved it. I still love it. And Scooby Apocalypse? One of my favs. Great list! :D
ReplyDeleteYes for Scooby and Fablehaven. I love the Fablehaven books so much. I also read The Secret Zoo a few years back. When I was a kid, I was reading adult books but then I don't think we had all the cool books then that we do now!
ReplyDeleteI feel like a teacher read that Rats of Nihm book to me as a kid...or at least it sounds familiar. I obviously don't remember it at all.
ReplyDeleteTop Ten (and all of Cotugno's books) would have been right up my alley as a kid/teenager.
ReplyDeleteI see a bunch I think my son would really enjoy. I think he would love Cats of Tanglewood Forest and the Fablehaven books look interesting.
ReplyDeleteI didn't read a lot as a kid. The books I did read were all non fiction about plants, animals & dinosaurs. No surprise there lol
ReplyDeleteKaren @ For What It's Worth
What a great list! I wish I had read Top Ten when I was younger too!
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Scooby Apocalypse looks like so much fun. I kind of want to read it now.
ReplyDeleteI adored MRS. FRISBY AND THE RATS OF NIMH when I was a kid, both the book and the movie. It was scary, but SOOO good :) I tried to read HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE as a kid and it was just too weird for me. I have a feeling I would have the same reaction to it as an adult :)
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
The Secret Zoo looks like a great adventure story! I might have enjoyed reading that as a child. Here's my Top Ten Tuesday List!
ReplyDeleteI wish I'd have read The Hitchhikers Guide too. Love the cover to The Secret Zoo. Great TTT, Greg! :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVED the Secret of NIMH! That series seems to be popular today!
ReplyDeleteMmm - a web of violent death - lol.
ReplyDeleteAnd Mrs Frisby - oh yes, I wish I'd read that as a child.
Lynn :D
Murder off the Record has such an epic tagline! And I am digging the bombshell on the cover! You know what, other than the Douglas Adams title, I didn't know any of these books, so your list and a couple of others are such a great learning curve for me!
ReplyDeleteGuess what? The Cats of Tanglewood Forest was $1.99 as an ebook on Monday and I nabbed it! Did you know there is a companion book? 👍✨
ReplyDeleteOh Fablehaven and The Cats of Tanglewood Forest seem like such fun reads!
ReplyDeleteTaken literally, that tagline makes absolutely no fucking sense. So her real face is a web of violent death? Like a spider web with the words 'violent death' written across it, ala Charlotte's Web? teehee
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, I wish YA in general was a thing when I was young! Like I guess it might have been a category, but my bookstore and library certainly didn't have them! And all the books marketed toward teens (I shouldn't say ALL, but most) were of a similar style it seemed. Or again, those that I had access to. What a time it is now, to have so many choices!
ReplyDeleteI agree about the YA books. It seems like nothing like that was around when I was growing up.
ReplyDeleteGreat tagline. So, not only did I not read any of those books as a kid... I still haven't read them. 😕 Hopefully someday!
ReplyDeleteHow old are the first few? I don't remember ever coming across them as a child. Great list ♡
ReplyDeleteI completely agree about all the YA books which are out now, I would have loved to have had the variety there is now. I mean, YA wasn't even a thing when I was younger, it was just starting with the weird teen section at my local bookshop which was essentially a single shelf for me to choose from. I found some great books, but there are so many more out now. And you've not read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? It's really good, it's my kind of humour so I enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteThat tagline would be perfect for Black Widow <3 Also I don't think I could have read Hitchhiker's as a kid. It was tough for me to get through as an adult, tho totally worth it!
ReplyDeleteI've never thought of Hitchhiker's Guide as a kids' book, but that cover does make it look like one! (I did read it as a teenager, so I guess that kind of qualifies as being a kid. LOL!)
ReplyDeleteNicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction
I love the Hitchhiker's Guide books - they're all so much fun. :)
ReplyDeleteLauren @ Always Me
My childhood was way before Harry Potter and the amazing range of books available for kids now! I did read Mrs Frisby at school but I remember nothing about it now. I never liked the Hitchhiker's Guide though!
ReplyDeleteI love that teaser!
ReplyDeleteoh my gosh, I totally forgot about Fablehaven until I saw the cover!