In the past few weeks I’ve re-read both Angeline and A Girl Named Disaster, both of which I read when I was quite young and absolutely loved.  Of course books that you liked as a child aren’t usually as good as you remember them, but I was surprised that Angeline was still pretty darn good.  A Girl Named Disaster was sort of a disappointment in that I have no idea how I finished it when I was eleven or twelve because it bored me to tears this time around.

So re-reading childhood favourites can be disappointing, but it can also be a great experience as you rediscover some of that childhood magic.  What I want to know is this: Do you re-read some of your favourite books from when you were a kid?  If so, how did you like them this time around?  Or do you try to avoid re-reading childhood favourites because you have the feeling they’re not as good as they were the first time around?