Dealing with Dragons

[unforth]

It makes me so happy that people have read Dealing with Dragons. I read that book when I was in 4th grade, and I have frequently credited it with my becoming the fantasy geek I am today. Before that, I read mainstream kid stuff, like Babysitters Club and Boxcar Children and Little House books. Within a year of reading Wrede, I had read Piers Anthony, David Eddings, Terry Brooks, Tolkien, Robert Jordan, and more...yeah...anyway, I have lots of work to do, but it makes me happy.

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[nekomata.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize it was that old. O_O; Myself, I migrated from fairy tales, to Anne McCaffery to Anthony to Mercedes Lackey and so on. I didn't really get into -real-(I use this term loosely) young adult stuff until I was a junior in highschool. The only regular kids' books I had as a child were my mom's Little House collection, and a ton of inherited fairy tale books, along with things we got for free at school.
Before I discovered fantasy and sci-fi I usually read informational books, like encyclopedias and almanacs. I still have notes from elementary teachers about how I was anti-social and read too much. -_-

[drydem.livejournal.com]

Lloyd Alexander was my gateway writer. Though I never had a Robert Jordan problem, I did deal with a *cough*dragonlance novel addiction during middle school.

[tooth-and-claw.livejournal.com]

Holy crap I loved those books.

[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

I am tempted to buy the whole series as it looks like soo much fun.

[selenya.livejournal.com]

I loved Dealing with Dragons when I was younger. :)

And I agree about juvenile fantasy being better than adult fantasy right now. ;) Read Tithe by Holly Black? It's awesome.

[fallenrose.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of that, actually... see, I was a huge Pern fan when I was a kid, and last summer I went out and bought most of the extensive (and still going after 30-some years) series used.
This, of course, led to a childhood obsession with dragons-->pterandons-->dinosaurs in general (when I was 10, anyway). I made dragons out of my various construction sets and played with those, rather than making, you know, buildings and cars with them.

Yay Dragons!