What was your favorite book as a child?
The Phantom Tollbooth? Little House on the Prairie? Something by Roald Dahl that was kind of grotesque and frightening but also a complete immersion in delight?
The Sensible Nonsense Project collects short essays about favorite childhood books and how they continue to reverberate with us into adulthood.
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