My Top 10: Young Adult Reads

You just have to look at my bookshelves to see that I am a huge fan of YA fiction. It's just so easy to read, and it comes in all shapes and sizes. You have coming of age books based in the real world of high school or University, and you have dystopian and fantasy novels which push the boundaries of your imagination. I have so many YA books that I absolutely loved reading, so I thought I'd share my top ten picks with you.

It was so difficult to narrow it down to just ten, and I changed my mind so often on which order they should be in. I also know that there are lots of YA books that I'm yet to read, and if I were to redo this list in the future it could potentially be very different. That being said, I've tried to include a variety of different genres, and pick some that maybe aren't so well known, but there are definitely some recognisable titles in there! Here we go...

Winnie the Pooh; Silly Old Bear

“At first, Winnie-the-Pooh wasn’t called Winnie-the-Pooh. He had several names: Big Bear, Mr Edward, and Teddy Bear. Even A.A. Milne was not sure where his unusual name came from! The story goes that in 1921, the one-year-old Christopher Robin went on holiday with his parents to a cottage in the Sussex village of Poling. There was a lake nearby, where Christopher Robin would feed a swan. He called the swan ‘Pooh’, and somehow this name became attached to his teddy bear, too.”

Anybody who knows me will know that I adore Winnie the Pooh. I've had the books since I was young, and I've always loved them. With the release of the new teaser trailer for Christopher Robin, it seemed like the perfect opportunity for me to dig the books back out and have another look through them. It seemed silly to try and do a review, because I just wouldn't be able to write anything to do justice to what the stories and characters mean to me. So instead, I decided to pick out a few of my favourite quotes, and share them in this post.

The characters of Pooh Bear and his friends are all so endearing, I find it hard to imagine anybody not liking them, and I think A.A. Milne created such a perfect world for a child to escape to. There's such an innocence to the stories, and especially to the character of Pooh himself, that make them a really wonderful read, and I couldn't help but smile as I read the stories again. I hope you enjoy reading through these quotes as much as I enjoyed reading back through my own books.