Magic isn’t meant to be limited to childhood. If properly nourished, it will last a lifetime.
Tasha Tudor
Today marks the first day of the 2015 Classic Children’s Literature Event, which I hope will be a fun month of revisiting old favorites and meeting new ones. The most important part of this month is to have fun even as we challenge ourselves to look at classics of children’s literature through the lens of all our reading and life experiences since we’ve left childhood and to appreciate these works not just for their nostalgia, but also as good literature. Of course, that last bit, not just for their nostalgia could be quite the challenge for me!
Starting today, the Event Logo at the top right of the blog will link to this page, which will be the link page for the event. (And this post should also be a “sticky” post at the top of the blog.) Use the comments below to leave links to your posts on your reading this month. Please link to your posts related to this month on this page. This will make it easier to for everyone to find each other’s posts. The Children’s Classics 2015 in the menu at the top of the blog will also link to this page. There will be a separate page for the Pinocchio readalong which will go live towards the end of the month. At the end of the month–and half-way through if there are enough posts to warrant it–I will round up all the links onto one post for ease of discover.
As I said before, I’m not too fussy about the particulars for this event–as long as it’s still January it’s never too late to join!
(If you wish for more guidelines please see the Introductory Post. If you need reading ideas please see 2013’s suggestions list or 2014’s.)
Simpler Pastimes 
Maybe you should advertise this event in the A Novel Challenge blog. You’re likely to get a lot of traffic from there.
I’ve not heard of A Novel Challenge. I will have to look into it, thank you.
The Cabin Faced West by Jean Fritz: http://cleoclassical.blogspot.ca/2015/01/the-cabin-faced-west.html
Thanks for the link!
I read Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking with the kids. Review here: http://mybookstrings.com/2015/01/19/why-i-am-now-scared-to-read-astrid-lindgren/
Thanks for sharing! I will check it out!
Whoops, forgot to link my first book (bad host!): Over Sea, Under Stone
And my second, the much older Treasure Island
I’ve posted about the Limited Editions Club Pinocchio, illustrated by Richard Floethe: http://www.emeraldcitybookreview.com/2015/01/beautiful-books-pinocchio.html
Great! I’ll check it out.
Hi Amanda, I’m linking this one here. I put it in the wrong place before, sorry!
The Winged Watchman by Hilda van Stockum: http://journey-and-destination.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/2015-classic-childrens-literature-event.html
Oh no, problem! Thanks for adding it here.
Just finished this one: Bambi: the Life of a Forest Deer by Felix Salten –
http://journey-and-destination.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/bambi-life-in-woods-by-felix-salten.html
Here is the other one which I’ve just completed. Bambi: a Life in the Woods by Felix Salten http://journey-and-destination.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/bambi-life-in-woods-by-felix-salten.html
Thanks for the link up, Amanda.
You’re welcome! I’ve never read Bambi, so I look forward to what you have to say about it.
Hello 🙂 I read ‘The Cuckoo Clock’ for the challenge and I have put up a review here: https://theliterarysisters.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/classic-childrens-literature-event-2015-the-cuckoo-clock-by-mrs-molesworth/
Thank you for this amazing challenge! I wish I had more time to participate and read more!
Thanks for the link! I think a lot of us wish we had more time to read more!