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- Kim Brown SeelyInterview
So many books! I was a night-owl flashlight reader, as well as an introvert who loved the adventure of disappearing into a new book. I read my books over and over: Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, The Secret Garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett, the entire Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene, Green Mansions by William Henry…
- Christina McDonaldInterview
The Nancy Drew books by Carolyn Keene. I read all of these as a kid, and I think it really cemented in my head that I was interested in mysteries and suspense.
- Annelise OsborneInterview
I read so many books as a kid. The ones from school I remember are The Bridge to Teribithia, Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby, 1984, and Wuthering Heights. For fun, I would read the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie novels and of course Judy Blume books. I also read the Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes.
- Barbara TverskyInterview
A charming book on world cultures, anthropology, which my beloved grandfather (a warm, wise man who narrowly escaped the pogroms in Russia at 19, arriving alone in NYC with no English) wisely sent me when I was 7. It described creation stories from all over the world and made me a confirmed atheist at a young age…
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