the-forest-library:lizziethereader: Weekly Bookish Question #228 (April 11th - April 17th): Thi

the-forest-library:lizziethereader:Weekly Bookish Question #228 (April 11th - April 17th):This week’s question comes from @the-forest-library, thank you!, and it’s this: What (not necessarily scary) book frightened you as a child?Ok, so the book that inspired it all! The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Tale of Louis Pasteur! It’s part of a series that teaches kids morals through the life stories of important historical figures. I remember having a couple other books from the series (Abraham Lincoln and Marie Curie, I believe), but they didn’t come close to having the same effect on me. The illustrations in this book freaked me out as a kid and still haunt me to this day. The dog foaming at the mouth, the little rabies guys, the child’s limp body. It was too much. I also read this book as a kid and you’re right it’s horrifying. The illustration that really got me was the one where the kid is hitting the fence with a stick not realising the dog can get out (at least I think it’s an illustration). Did this book make me paranoid I was going to get rabies despite the fact it’s not really common here…YES. However, the book which most truly traumatized me as a child was Goodbye Mog by Judith Kerr. She wrote a whole series about Mog, a cat who has adventures. And then one day Judith KILLED MOG. This of course caused me to crash full-tilt into a sudden and horrifying awareness of my own mortality. Like I knew people died but I hadn’t really thought about it before in any depth, but now Mog was DEAD and anyone could be next. I don’t think it’s a bad book, it was just extremely jarring to see one of my favourite childhood characters killed off like that. It made me feel a lot of emotions that I didn’t necessarily want to deal with at the time. RIP Mog, forever in our hearts.  -- source link

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