What was your favorite childhood book?

[dividedbyblue]

Three weeks for Dreamwidth: What was your favorite childhood book?

My favorite book as a child was the Dutch book ‘Eefje Donkerblauw’ (Little Eve Darkblue). It is a wonderful story with beautiful illustrations, and it’s about fascination for colors, and love. The book in essence, explains how color mixing works in the most adorable way.

Eefje loves dark blue, and everything in her life is dark blue. Teapots, chairs, bed,… Everything. Then, at a moment on the beach, she meets Koning Goudgeel (King Goldenyellow), who adores yellow. She becomes enchanted by him, and as her fascination for him grows, she starts to incorporate yellow into her life. She paints yellow flowers on her blue teapots, mixes bits of yellow in her clothing. When she meets the king again, he has done the same thing to his world, but then with blue. They fall in love and ultimately start a family. All of their children love green.

It is a charming tale, and apart from the color information, it also beautifully explains that loving someone and adding someone to your life also means adding pieces of her/him/them to your life, so your life becomes fuller and deeper.

This book, sadly isn’t translated into English to my knowledge

Comments

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

I think the earliest I can pin down is Mom reading me The Hobbit when I was four.

Re: Thoughts

[dividedbyblue]

That’s a lovely book. I read it when I was a teenager.

[emeraldnebulae1]

That sounds like such a precious little story! What adorable illustrations as well.

One of the earliest novels I read was charlotte's web. My parents had been reading it to me, but I finished reading it on my own! Then no one could stop me from raiding the library!

[dividedbyblue]

I’ve heard about Charlotte’s Web but haven’t read it. I just looked it up, and there seems to have been an animated movie made of it, too, in the 1970s. It’s so lovely that it inspired you to start reading! Do you still read often?

[emeraldnebulae1]

It's an old classic, it was one of those books you'd see in every other classroom. It was also a movie, and I liked watching it and comparing the novel with it.
I do! I have a small library of books I've built from rejected library books, gifts, and my own purchases. I have manga, novella, traveling guides, art books of games, a singular encyclopedia on monsters. I love fantasy, science fiction and mythology. Currently I'm writing / reading in fandom, so my library is mostly composed of fanfic right now!

[dividedbyblue]

It’s fun that you built a collection that includes rejected library books. Encyclopedia on monsters seems so cool! I bet that’s very helpful when drawing things. I’m currently also mostly reading fanfiction. There’s such a great pool of stories available!