Book list for girls - UPDATE #2

I'm compiling a list of books I enjoyed as a girl - and still enjoy as a bigger girl. *chuckle*

Anne Of Green Gables and the other Anne books that followed (thanks for the thought, Jessica!)
Magic for Marigold (both of these books are written by L.M.Montgomery - I've made her name a link - she has written many stories for girls and all the ones I've read have been fabulous! I highly recommend them!
A Wrinkle in Time &
A Wind in the Door &
A Swiflty Tilting Planet, and other stories about the Murry family (Megan and Charles Wallace are wonderfully real characters) by Madeleine L'Engle are favourites as well as A Ring of Endless Light. (From here I discovered the poetry of Henry Vaughn *smile*)
Little Women (well, pretty much anything by Louisa M. Alcott for that matter!)

um...*laugh* I think I'll stop - I've sort of been drawn into the last two linked sites...
Perhaps I'll add more later. *sheepish grin*

Ok...I'm back and adding to the list. *smile* I may have to do this over a period of days. And Rabenstrange - yes, I read those you mentioned - quite happily. *smile* Just hadn't gotten to them yet. I'll start with them this time.

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis link 1 & link 2
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (who interestingly is listed as a principle collaborator in the translation and literary revision of The Jerusalem Bible. This, along with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, were read aloud to us by our Aunt. It was great fun. We made maps and all sort of things to go along with our readings. Great memories. *smile*
The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

add again later. *smile*

The Nancy Drew Mysteries by "Carolyn Keene" These are really good fun to read. I discovered these in the third grade and I am looking forward to reading them with Cosette. (We've been reading the Hardy Boys Mysteries with the boys. *smile*)
The Bobbsey Twins by "Laura Lee Hope" is another mystery series, but for a younger audience. My mother introduced them to me, but by this time I was too engrossed with Nancy to be interested in the "little kids". *laugh*
Agatha Christie Mysteries...by Agatha Christie. *laugh* I picked up a lot of great vocabulary reading her books in elementary and middle school. Gastronomic was one of the words I remember having to figure out...as well as a few french phrases. Once on a car trip I didn't have a dictionary and had to ask my Dad. *grin* I love words - so new words are as delightful as the mystery itself.

Does anyone else see a theme running here? *laugh*

There is also....
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Bambi by Felix Salten Strangely, I only read this one time - on a "cross country" type road trip. I don't remember if it was here or in Europe, so I'm having trouble "dating" the experience. I am sure it was before fourth grade, tho....I don't remember much about the book other than I cried very quiet tears in the seat behind my mother and next to my sister's carseat. I just recently placed this book in the donation box and I wonder what about it moved me to hold onto it for so long. I vaguely remember some beautiful descriptive writing from the beginning. Reading at this link, I am not surprised I had to finish it, and that I did not reread it. I am surprised that reading that book at such a young age did not make me completely anti-hunting. Esp. since I know I saw the Disney version when I was small. Of course, if I actually had to do the hunting myself I might very well be a vegetarian! *laugh* Anyway, as a mother, I wouldn't recommend reading this with your children...esp. if Dad hunts. And I am really wondering why I thought to include this book on this list in the first place?!?!
OK..this is becoming a post all in it's own! *laugh*

enough for now.....