I'll try not to plug Miranda July too much here (even though my interview with her is coming next week and there's a ton of stuff on her blog to point to), but I just ran across the site she collaborated on with Harrell Fletcher, Learning to Love You More, and although all the "assignments" are great, I was taken in particular by this one: Reread your favorite book from fifth grade. Fun to see what people read and remember, and the pictures especially.
For me, I think I'd be mostly embarrassed about what I was reading in the fifth grade (movie novelizations anyone?) but do recall liking The Mouse and the Motorcycle and Runaway Ralph, and Ray Bradbury.
Or was it Island of the Blue Dolphins? ... Or probably some stupid sports biography.
A Wrinkle in Time.
Posted by: Wiley Wiggins | June 18, 2005 at 06:36 PM
Funny, my g/f, after I asked her the same question this weekend, responded quickly with: "Madeline L'Engel."
I was trying to read science-fiction that was at too high a level for me at that age, Heinlein, Bradbury (tho some of his stuff was readable for a 5th grader), and Vonnegut. Wrinkle in Time was a favorite, too.
Posted by: C | June 20, 2005 at 10:31 AM