DD has broken my heart!

[OrmIrian]

She refused point blank to read The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge. How can she be soooo cruel to me? Tis one of my very favourite books.

Any of your childhood favs been rejected by your heartless DC?

[ScareyBitchFeast]

pippilongstocking.
dd just wouldnt listen to me reading it to her, and definitely wouldnt read it herself

[Cappuccino]

Pookie puts the world right

"it's falling to pieces"

[OrmIrian]

I loved PippiLongstocking but have to admit I dont own a copy.

Not heard of Pookie - sorry capp

[ummadam]

OMG! I used to love that book but had forgotton all about it - I can see the book in my head now and will have to look in my mum's loft when I'm there next!

[mimsum]

A wizard of earthsea - ds1 thought it was boring and then refused to read the rest of the trilogy

[Minniethemoocher]

Oh, I had forgotten this book, The Little White Horse was one of my favourite books too!

DD can't read yet, but I will put it on the list to read to her when she is a little older.

[ummadam]

mimsum - I have the earthsea quartet on my supposedly adult bookshelf

[janeite]

Awww - children are so unkind aren't they?!!

Both of my dds have totally refused to read "Ballet Shoes" and "Charlotte Sometimes" despite the fact that I adore both of them and still read each of them at least once a year.

[roisin]

ds1 has refused the Little White Horse too several times in the past, despite it being recommended by JK Rowling.

I think the cover (of the edition we have) is pretty naff though and unappealing, especially for boys.

Sometimes he comes round though. He refused Wizard of Earthsea some time back, but this summer picked them up again and read and enjoyed all of them.

[SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore]

My dd1 keeps refusing to bring 'The Grumpalump' back home from school for me to read .

I'm buying her it for xmas

[seeker]

dd refused Charlotte Sometimes and Marianne Dreams AND the Wizard of Earthsea! AND Little Women!

Ds is very reluctantly reading Just William as his school reading book, saying plaintively every now and then "When is it going to be funny?"

[littlelamb]

Ooo my two favourite books from when I was younger were The Little White Horse and Ballet Shoes, bith were copies that had belonged to my mum and she gave me them when I was about 8 or 9. I am already looking forward to giving them to dd, who is 4 I don't know what I shall do if she doesn't like them! This is also one of the things I feel sad about now I have a ds as well- I don't really have any special books from my childhood that I can pass onto him.

[ScummyMummy]

LOL! I've been trying to get my sons to read ballet shoes for years but haven't been massively surprised that they've always refused point blank. I'm really glad to hear that some daughters are equally recalcitrant. I loved the Little White Horse but i adored the E Goudge one about the 13 children and the 2 dogs even more- what was that one called? Smokey something or other?

[squatchette]

I spent a bomb on one of those Beatrix potter box sets for my elder 2 dds (4+5) they don't enjoy them as I think they find the language a bit antiquated.
I also recently got them lots of Mr Men books that i loved at their age and they're just not interested.
They do however happily listen to Charlie and Lola even if it's the zillionth time we've read it!

[janeite]

Seeker - please tell me about "Marianne Dreams" - what a lovely title.

[ScaryHalloweenSquonkRAAR]

My dd1 has, over the years, refused to read Mog the forgetful cat, The Magic Faraway Tree, Black Beauty and The Book Thief.

I think she is a changeling.

I have high hopes for dd2 and ds...

[OrmIrian]

I suspect that Wizard of Earthsea may be another disappointment. Deffo DS's sort of thing but he's a lazy bugger about reading. DD reads voraciously but she prefers books about bloody animals

[Takver]

Seeker how old is your DS? I just fished out my copy of Just William and was wondering about reading it to my DD, but couldn't decide if she was too young (she's 6.5).
(Have been PMSL reading it myself though - DD could be JW reincarnated with long hair)

[seeker]

Marianne Dreams, Janeite

My ds is 7, Takver. I think he would be enjoying it more if I was reading it to him - in fact, I think I might get him to change his school book and have William as a bed time story. My dd enjoyed it on a story CD at about the same age. I think it might be just too wordy for a modern child to read to himself, sadly.

[janeite]

Agh - link doesn't work Seeker. Thanks for trying.

[snowleopard]

Conversely, when I was tiny I adored "In the Night Kitchen" by Maurice Sendak. My sister got it for DS and when I read it as an adult I thought, wow what a pile of nonsensical tripe, what did I see in that? Now DS is completely in love with it just as I was and wants it every night

[Ellbell]

DD1 adored The Little White Horse this summer (just to reassure those whose dcs have rejected it...).

[seeker]

Try again janeite - it works for me. Or is it a Mac thing?

[purpleduck]

I have been toying with the idea of reading Anne of Green Gables, and Little House on the Prarie to my kids, but I am terrified dcs will hate them....