this is my favorite children's book

Secret Garden, originally uploaded by Atomic Citrocity.

To say I was an avid reader when I was little is almost an understatement. I was crazy for reading! I loved getting lost in the world of a book for hours upon end, (I still do)! When I was little, I had a Disney alarm clock, with a glow in the dark star for a snooze button on it. I would hang my upper body off the side of the bed, hanging upside down, reading by that meager little light until all hours of the night.

There are so many books that were favorites of mine, but the first that popped into my mind today was the Secret Garden. I owned two copies when I was small. First a paperback, that was read so many times that it practically disintegrated in my hands, and then a hard cover copy which I still have, though it is worn and much loved.

Thanks to Handmaiden for this week's This Is topic!