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After writing something in another thread it got me to thinking – about the books we read or had read to us as children which has lead me to a two pronged question.
Firstly what books stick in your mind from when you were a child and might have influenced your reading choices today?
In my case (although there were many from Rupert the Bear to the Bee Bee Bobby Bird and the Tale of Samuel Whiskers) Two that stand out were Alpha Centauri by Robert Siegel, a C S Lewis style fantasy about a girl who goes to a world populated by Centaurs. It’s a very vague memory or a book and one that has been hard to track down (but today managed to get one, waiting for it to arrive).
The other is an even stranger one called The Did Of Didn’t Think by Rev. H Escott Inman, a morality fairy tale about a thoughtless boy whose excuse for all his misdemeanours is that he didn’t think and is then transported to a magical land, where no one thinks (so much that their heads shrink) and it becomes his quest to free their imprisoned ruler The Did! Good solid fun with lots of weird characters and creatures, but apart from the battered old copy I have I’ve never seen another, and no one seems to have heard of it, very little online although I have found a mention or two of Inman and other books he wrote.
So the second question is has anyone else heard of the either of the two above?
Firstly what books stick in your mind from when you were a child and might have influenced your reading choices today?
In my case (although there were many from Rupert the Bear to the Bee Bee Bobby Bird and the Tale of Samuel Whiskers) Two that stand out were Alpha Centauri by Robert Siegel, a C S Lewis style fantasy about a girl who goes to a world populated by Centaurs. It’s a very vague memory or a book and one that has been hard to track down (but today managed to get one, waiting for it to arrive).
The other is an even stranger one called The Did Of Didn’t Think by Rev. H Escott Inman, a morality fairy tale about a thoughtless boy whose excuse for all his misdemeanours is that he didn’t think and is then transported to a magical land, where no one thinks (so much that their heads shrink) and it becomes his quest to free their imprisoned ruler The Did! Good solid fun with lots of weird characters and creatures, but apart from the battered old copy I have I’ve never seen another, and no one seems to have heard of it, very little online although I have found a mention or two of Inman and other books he wrote.
So the second question is has anyone else heard of the either of the two above?