Tall Reader and I have often wished to have been kids together ... we shared taking music lessons (and having to practice), a love of horses, and reading! We both read every horse book we could find. It didn't matter if they were fiction, non-fiction, poetry, 'how to draw' ... as long as there was a horse, we were happy. One we both read

until our copies fell apart was Heads Up, Heels Down, by C.W. Anderson. Tall Reader also enjoyed all the OZ books by L. Frank Baum, and the books about the Bobbsey Twins, by Laura Lee Hope, (which were a favorite of her mother, too). She read fairy tales of all kinds, stories of 'derring do' including books by Walter Scott and anything to do with Camelot and King Arthur. (In our adult years we both enjoyed the books by Mary Stewart, starting with The Crystal Cave). Tall Reader's hubby (Bearded Reader) liked the Landmark Series, which, according to the blurb, is "the best collection of children's histories ever written." He liked to read 'real stories about real people' as a boy and he still does today!

A post-script here .... Tall Reader reported that considering her favorites for this post brought back memories of one more favorite author: Kate Seredy. Of the many books she wrote, The Singing Tree and The Chesty Oak were Tall Reader's favorites. I learned from a google search that Ms. Seredy considered herself an illustrator first, and that her books "were an excuse for making pictures." :-)

Reading Hermit With Dog