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When a child 11 Ask years one of the most famous illustrators in the world what kind of books did you read when you were their age, You know that is exposed to an endless list of treasures.

This has happened with Hayao Miyazaki. Perhaps many do not may know him, but those interested in manga and illustration know that is one of the most revered illustrators.

I leave a piece of one of his interviews and a list of their 50 Favorite books. I'm sure that among these, You find great gems to make your summer and your children, more bearable. Of course the books are in English 😉 Let's practice!

1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
2. A Norwegian Farm by Marie Hamsun
3. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
4. Children of Noisy Village by Astrid Lindgren
5. City Neighbor, The Story of Jane Addams by Clara Ingram Judson
6. Eagle of The Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff
7. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
8. Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
9. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
10. Ivan the Fool by Leo Tolstoy
11. Journey to the West by Wu Cheng’en
12. The Princes of the Wind by Michel-Aime Baudouy
13. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
14. Nihon Ryōiki by Kyokai
15. Nine Fairy Tales: And One More Thrown in For Good Measure by Karel Čapek
16. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
17. entomological Memories by Jean Henri Fabre
18. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
19. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
20. The Borrowers by Mary Norton
21. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupér
22. The Flying Classroom by Erich Kästner
23. There Were Five of Us by Karel Poláček
24. The secreat Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
25. The Treasure of the Nibelungs by Gustav Schalk
26. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
27. The Flambards Series by K. M. Peyton
28. The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder
29. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
30. Tistou of the Green Thumbs by Maurice Druon
31. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
32. The Otterbury Incident by Cecil Day-Lewis
33. The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon
34. Twelve Months by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak
35. The Restaurant of Many Orders by Kenji Miyazawa
36. The Man Who Has Planted Welsh Onions by Kim So-un. As much as I searched for this book, I have not managed to find anything, in any case, I leave that part of the list 50 books recommend this illustrator.
37. The hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
38. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
39. The Adventures of the Little Onion by Gianni Rodari
40. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
41. The Ship that Flew by Hilda Winifred Lewis
42. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
43. The Little Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov
44. The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
45. The Rose and the Ring by William Makepeace Thackeray
46. The Radium Woman by Eleanor Doorly
47. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
48. What the Neighbours Did, and Other Stories by Ann Philippa Pearce
49. When Marnie Was There by Joan G. Robinson
50. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

With this post I leave until September. We blog break to recharge your batteries and prepare many things for next year.

Thanks for being there.

Happy summer!

"Reading a good book is an ongoing dialogue that the book speaks and answers soul".

André Maurois

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