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<blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1878500" data-attributes="member: 8447">Wow, the combination of Mists of Time (going back to early 1960s here) and How You Define It...First &quot;adult&quot; book I read as a kid (aka something more than See Spot Run) was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- that may explain a lot about me.&nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; If that doesn't count, there is Nathaniel Hawthorne's Wonder Book -- the rendition of Perseus and the Gorgons in there sparked all my love of mythology.&nbsp; I read Ray Bradbury's The Homecoming (short story) when I was in about 4th grade; L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time was in 5th grade; The Hobbit was not until 7th grade.&nbsp; By this point I had already read a number of other &quot;borderline fantasy&quot; books, including a LOT of stories about King Arthur from multiple sources.&nbsp; There was also kiddy versions of Jules Verne and the like in my childhood.So in the end, it's pretty hard to tell...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wombat, post: 1878500, member: 8447"] Wow, the combination of Mists of Time (going back to early 1960s here) and How You Define It... First "adult" book I read as a kid (aka something more than [I]See Spot Run[/I]) was [U]Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [/U] -- that may explain a lot about me. ;) If that doesn't count, there is Nathaniel Hawthorne's [U]Wonder Book [/U] -- the rendition of Perseus and the Gorgons in there sparked all my love of mythology. I read Ray Bradbury's [I]The Homecoming [/I] (short story) when I was in about 4th grade; L'Engle's [U]A Wrinkle in Time [/U] was in 5th grade; [U]The Hobbit [/U] was not until 7th grade. By this point I had already read a number of other "borderline fantasy" books, including a LOT of stories about King Arthur from multiple sources. There was also kiddy versions of Jules Verne and the like in my childhood. So in the end, it's pretty hard to tell... [/QUOTE]

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