At the Skunk & Burning Tires blog, author Ju-osh M. is – by his own admission – “far too old to be seeking the attention and approval of strangers”. Yet – to adapt a phrase of his – there he was, there I was and here you are. He thought “it would be fun” to revisit animated film-maker Hayao Miyazaki’s “fifty favourite children’s books”. (I am not sure of his source; nor do I know if this is in order of preference). As mentioned before on this site, books by Rosemary Sutcliff were amongst the stories Miyazaki loved.
1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2. Il Romanzo di Cipollino (The Adventures of the Little Onion) by Gianni Rodari
3. The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray
4. The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon
5. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
6. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
7. Die Nibelungensage (The Treasure of the Nibelungs) by Gustav Schalk
8. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
9. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
10. A Norwegian Farm by Marie Hamsun
11. The Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov
12. Fabre’s Book of Insects by Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre
13. Toui Mukashi no Fushigina Hanashi-Nihon Reiiki by Tsutomu Minakami
14. Ivan the Fool by Leo Tolstoy
15. The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles (Three books) by Rosemary Sutcliff
16. Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne (more…)
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