What books did you love as a child?

[yellowdogintexas]

60. comprehension, character continuity, visualizing the story

are very important and this type of story helps a lot with that. Deductive/inductive reasoning is a good point.

I am a voracious reader of mystery fiction, especially if they are in a series. DO NOT ever try to get me to read any series out of order, either. I am sort of a slob about most things, but am anal retentive to the max about reading books in order, and knowing where all my kitchen implements are.

(my very nice husband washes the stuff that can't go in the dishwasher, and if he puts things away, I can't find them. My kitchen is NOT that big, yet he can find the weirdest places for things like a 12 cup Bundt pan, for example. He is 69 years old and has never really absorbed the fact that most bowls, pans, bakeware etc has been designed to stack or nest. So he scatters them in strange places then complains that we have too much stuff and he can't fit things into the cabinets. We have been married 35 years and I have given up on explaining that if you nest the mixing bowls, they give you head room on that shelf.