Discussion Post: What Is Your Favorite Children’s Series (If You Tell Me, I May Review it!)?

I don’t know about you, but I pretty much only read children’s books. And romances and mysteries. I minored in English in college and read a fair number of “real” books, and then I graduated and could read whatever I wanted and decided that about age 14 is the reading level that makes me happy. Reading should be fun! I don’t want to read An Unsuitable Boy, I want to read Betsy-Tacy! Anyway, tell me your favorite children’s books that you read as a kid/read to your kids/read now as an adult because reading has no rules.

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Book Talk: What Fantasy Serieses Do You Want to Recommend to Other DCIBers, and in What Ways Do You Find Them Similar to Indian Film?

“Recommend” or “talk about how much we both love them”. I am guessing the DCIB self-selected community has very similar fantasy book tastes, so if you say what your favorite series is, someone else is going to say “OMG, I love that series, so-and-so is my favorite character, it’s so great how her friendship with such-and-such is shown”. Because we all like Indian film, and most likely the things we like in it are the same things we like in books.

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