Skye's favourite childhood book sounds like something that 1) I'd like to read now and 2) I would have loved when I was a kid too. Like Skye, I can't remember the name of one of my favourite childhood books, but I can remember details which, when spoken aloud, sound a little bit insane.When I was in elementary school and relying on the tiny one-room library it housed, I repeatedly read a picture book which told the story of a bad girl whose badness gets her killed - her badness, you see, manifests primarily through her hanging upside down from tree branches and showing everyone her knickers.
One day, she foolishly tries this stunt over a well and falls in. Her ghost ends up possessing the town's best behaved girl, who suddenly begins hanging from branches herself. Someone finally realizes what's happening and cuts a hole in the good girl's toe, which releases the ghost and restores social order. I told you it sounded crazy.
Your name: Skye
Where are you reading it? Usually on my bed. Sometimes in front of the computer. Sometimes on the sofa or outside. (In
How did you discover this book? I bought it in a bookstore. I chose it because of the summary and the colourful photo on the cover. I’m a “visual” person.
What do you think of it so far? I’m pleasantly surprised.
Favourite childhood book? It’s difficult to say. I mostly liked stories which featured an animal as the main character. There was this book about a lonely fox, which finally found a friend in the miraculous Moon forest. Of all the books we had at home it was my favourite.
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