#five children and it

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Jonathan Bailey as Cyril

Five Children and It (2004)

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20 Book Challenge

I saw this challenge on a post by @theresebelivett. The idea is you pick 20 of your books to take with you to a desert island, but you can only pick one book per author and series. Here are two further guidelines I set myself: They have to be books I actually own, as if I really am gathering them up under my arms and heading to the island; and I'm defining "book" as a single volume -- so if I just so happen to have 100 novellas squashed between two covers, it still counts as one book.

We'll go alphabetically by author.

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre. An old standby, a classic, I can jump into it at any point.

Daphne du Maurier: Rebecca. Have only read it once, but loved it and I suspect I'll get more from it each time.

Clare B Dunkle: The Hollow Kingdom. If I can only take one book from this excellent and unusual goblin series that captivated me in the mid-2000s, it'd better be the first one.

William Goldman: The Princess Bride. This book had an outsize influence on my own writing. I can quote a lot of it, but I wouldn't want to be without it.

Shannon Hale: Book of a Thousand Days. I love the warmth and humility of its heroine Dashti. Plus, Shannon Hale very kindly wrote a personal response to a fan letter I sent her years and years ago, so her work always has a special place in my heart.

Georgette Heyer: Cotillion. I don't actually own my favorite Georgette novel, but the funny, awkward, and ultimately romantic Cotillion is definitely not a pitiful second-stringer.

Eva Ibbotson: A Countess Below Stairs. Countess was my introduction to Eva's adult romances, and she is the past master of warm, hardworking heroines who should really be annoying because they're way too good to be true, but somehow you just end up falling in love with them.

Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth. I first read this when I was like eight, and even for an adult, its quirky humor and zingy wordplay hold up, no problem.

Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera. Can't leave without Erik, nope, the French potboiler has got to come. Perhaps I will spend my time on the island writing the inevitable crossover fanfic, The Phantom of the Tollbooth.

CS Lewis: Till We Have Faces. Faces is my current answer for what my favorite book is, so I'm taking that, though it feels criminal to leave The Silver Chair behind.

LM Montgomery: The Blue Castle. As much as I love Anne and Emily, it came down to Blue Castle and A Tangled Web, and I'm a sucker for Valancy's romantic journey.

E Nesbit: Five Children and It. Probably the most classic Edwardian children's fantasy, though still a hard choice to make. Nesbit is another author who had a huge influence on me as a writer.

Robert C O'Brien: Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. A childhood book I'm really sentimental about. I should re-read it.

Meredith Ann Pierce: The Darkangel. The first in the archaic lunar vampire trilogy. This will always be frustrating, only having the first in the series, but if I can only read the first, maybe I'll forget about how angry the third novel left me.

Sherwood Smith: Crown Duel. At one time, this swords-and-manners fantasy duet was one of my absolute favorite fandoms, and clever me has both books in one volume, so I don't have to choose.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl: Starflower. My favorite of the Tales of Goldstone Wood series. We'll have to test whether I can actually get sick of Eanrin.

JRR Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings. I've never actually read it through as an adult and, look at that, I have a three-in-one volume. Cheating!

Vivian Vande Velde: Spellbound. I've read much of VVV's YA fantasy and liked a lot of it, but none more so than The Conjurer Princess and its fast-paced tale of revenge. The Spellbound edition includes the prequel and a bonus short story, so I'm good to go.

PG Wodehouse: The World of Mr Mulliner. There are some hilarious novels I'm leaving behind here, including all the Bertie Wooster stuff. But there are some absurdly fun Mulliner stories and this edition is like three hundred pages. That'll keep me happy for a long while on my island.

Jack Zipes (editor): Spells of Enchantment. This is an enormous compilation of western fairy tales. I've owned it since 2004 or so, and I've still never finished it. Now, on my island, I'll no longer have the excuse.

Tagging anyone else who feels like doing this!

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I think I'm going to cry - I'm on the last chapter of Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders. It so, so meaningful to me, I also doubt I've ever seen a modern sequel to a classic work that really worked, and added something new that truly was worth adding. I don't know that other people would have the same experience of it - my journey with this book was really shaped by my childhood reading and a few things I've been through more recently - but that's okay.

And now I need to post pictures from the dear 1991 BBC production (the only good screen version of the first book.) I am doing this to put off finishing the book...

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Series info:

Book 1 of Five Children

Book 2: The Phoenix and the Carpet

Book 3: The Story of the Amulet

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There's this book bazaar happening in my town, and they sell English books almost half the price! It's called Big Bad Wolf, held annually, and I believe several SEA countries also have the same bazaar? Anyways, I bought six books, three of them are hardcovers novels 🥹

I bought these mainly because of their pretty covers, ngl, but I looked up their summaries and rating on Goodreads and their premises look promising. Hopefully the actual writing is reaching my expectation. I don't know when will I start them, though. I still have Bunny and Red, White, & Royal Blue on read currently---and I plan to read Babel after those. So. Yeah.

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Top 5 fantasy books!

Oh you went straight for the hard one didn’t you? I am….maybe bending the rules a little to include series (but I will list my favorite book of each one.)

The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis.

This one goes without saying—my first fantasy series (I was maybe 6? I wish I remembered exactly how old I was when I read LWW for the first time.) and one I can come back to over and over and always find something new and beautiful and true. Favorite book is and has been The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (but The Horse and His Boy is a close second. And it’s just so hard to pick—I love them all for different reasons and in different moods.) The sea gives me all the feels in every story and it may have started here. 2. The Chronicles of Prydain, Lloyd Alexander

Read when I was in early middle school, the perfect time to encounter this series. So good and an instant favorite. I’ve revisited this one less than Narnia, but whenever I do I find old friends and new truth waiting for me. I think my favorite is the fourth one, Taran Wanderer.

3. The Dark is Rising sequence, Susan Cooper

Read later in middle school, I was a bit iffy on these at first. There’s a lot of magic and a lot of darkness, and while I’m more ok with that stuff than many Christians seem to be, I would caution people to read this with both eyes open and stop if you feel like you need to for any reason. That said, I did finish after a brief break and loved the message that light eventually does triumph over darkness. I love the world and the characters and the references/building off of Arthurian legend. I love the fourth one, The Grey King, for many reasons, for its Welsh-ness and the friendships forged therein.

4. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien

I first read the Hobbit from the library upon my mom’s recommendation and was unenthused. I know! Blasphemy! But I rediscovered it and LOTR about a year later and…the rest, as they say, is history. I’m not sure I can pick a favorite book, because I haven’t reread it in so long and my reactions would probably be very different now. But I love it and I love the PJ movies and the discussions both can spark about human nature and about Themes and Morals and Ideas.

5. The Water Horse, by Dick King-Smith

This one is a bit of a curveball. I spent a while thinking “what other book could possibly rank with these four series?” I’ve read a lot of other fantasy and fantasy-adjacent books, but many of them are not to “favorite of favorites” level (though I do love them dearly). But this one. Discovered sometime in young childhood (6? 7?), I read and listened to it over and over. A story of a girl and her brother and a Creature. A grumpy grandfather and kind parents. I attribute my fascination and love of Scotland to this book. It’s still one of my comfort stories. I need to give it a reread and finally purchase my own copy.

Thanks for the ask, Riley!

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The smile on Polly's face became real. She sorted through the books. The only one she had ever heard of was The Wizard of Oz. There were eleven others. Polly hovered a moment between Five Children and It and one most enticingly called The Treasure Seekers, and then picked up at random The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. She began to read it. She read for the rest of Christmas, mostly kneeling on the floor with her hair dangling round the book like a curtain, but sometimes, when a cousin crawled up and tried to grab the book, she took it away behind the sofa and crouched there in the shadows. She never head the television. She only vaguely heard Ivy saying, “It's no good speaking to Polly when she's reading, Maud. She's deaf and blind. Reg used to stop her. You let her be.”

Polly read greedily, picking up another book as soon as she had finished the first one. She felt like a drug addict. She had read The Box of Delights and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe too before she went home, and was beginning The Sword in the Stone. She read the rest in the week before school. Then she surfaced, with a flushed face and a deep sigh. The feast was over.

“And I only sent him a Christmas card!” she wailed.

  —  Fire and Hemlock (Diana Wynne Jones)

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one thing that will always be funny to me about batfam is that jason is forever convinced that dick is bruce's favorite child while all of his siblings know for sure that bruce's favorite child is actually jason

some random reporter: who's your favorite child?

bruce: how DARE YOU imply that i play favorites, i love ALL of my children equally

dick, without missing a bit: oh he absolutely plays favorites, it was jason

tim: rest in peace

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Five Children and It (2004 movie) Cyril Stories

I would love to see some Cyril x reader stories for the 2004 movie Five Children and It. I just loved Jonathan Bailey in that movie, he was so young and I would just love to see some stories based on that character and that movie. Would anyone wanna make some?

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Elizabeth Afton bets on losing dogs in FNAF..

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Movie Banners including Austenland, The Sound of Music, Five Children and It