quote:Originally posted by Elmer's Glue: There is a Monster at the End of This Book.
I LOVED that book!
And I'll add "Greedy Zebra," "There's No Such Thing As a Dragon," and "Revenge of the Magic Chicken" to that list.
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No Flying in the House No Such Thing as a Witch All the Danny Dunn books All the Kerby books (Limerick Trick and the like) The Forgotten Door The Adventures of Isabel (Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry...)
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I read hundreds of children's books since my grandmother was a librarian and steered a bunch of the old books our way (I'm not sure if she purchased them from the library or something else ). I don't remember many specific titles.
But, reading with my kids has reminded me of a couple of old favorites. I'm pretty fond of "Go Dog Go!" I also like Harold/Purple Crayon stuff.
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quote:Originally posted by Elmer's Glue: There is a Monster at the End of This Book.
This is a classic.
I really liked Mr. Popper's Penguins and the Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig when I was a child.
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quote:Originally posted by lobo: I found a website that helps you discover books you don't have the title or author but vaguely remember the characters or plot. Cool. http://community.livejournal.com/whatwasthatbook/
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I had these awesome Disney books. A whole set, each book was a different pastel-ish color. I liked to just sit and admire their lovely spines, all sitting there so cozy together.
And the Little Golden Books too.
I like the way sets look on my bookshelves.
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Seconding Mr. Popper's Penguins and Roald Dahl. This is a little older than "childhood" but I loved the My Teacher is an Alien series by Bruce Coville, and There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar. Actually, anything by him is good. (I have three autographed books!)
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If we are going all the way up to Roald Dahl and Louis Sachar age, then I will throw in The White Stag by Kate Seredy. My Dad read that to his sixth grade class for half a century. It was a hit every year.
EDIT: OK, I looked and goodreads says it was first published in 79. I remember Dad reading it to me sometime before 59. So, who ya gonna believe?
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Roald Dahl was a first grade and beyond author for me. I definitely didn't understand a lot of it. But I really liked the absurd characters and situations. They were very fable/fairy tale-esque for me at that point.
I recently reread some of his books. And I realized that there's some stuff in some of them that really isn't appropriate for children at all.
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I loved all the Robert A. Heinlein juveniles, especially Red Planet (long live Willis!), Tunnel in the Sky, and Starman Jones. It was the latter novel that led me to have a sense of reverence for all library books. In all, Heinlein wrote 12 novels that are considered juveniles, published by Scribner's from 1947-1958.
I believe the only Heinlein novel that has been made into a movie so far is Starship Troopers, which is not considered a juvenile. I think there are plans to make some other Heinlein novels into movies, but I haven't heard anything about it in a while. Heinlein had some very conservative political views (such as only people who have served in the military should be allowed to vote), so liberal moviemakers in Hollywood probably would not be fired up by a desire to make movies out of his works.
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We had several library bound childrens books that had been written as WPA projects. I loved them all. Titles that I still remember fondly include Millions of Cats, Gag; Bad Mousie, Dudley; and The Magic Bus,(The original is to the Joanna Cole series as Luke's lightsaber is to the D-cell ones at K-mart) and Saggy Baggy Elephant, Jackson.
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quote:Originally posted by Artemisia Tridentata: EDIT: OK, I looked and goodreads says it was first published in 79. I remember Dad reading it to me sometime before 59.
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Someone else has read Cloudy with a chance of meatballs!!! Absolute favorite book in my childhood years.
Where the Sidewalk Ends Falling Up Dr. Suess's the Lorax Little Critter - All of them If you Give a Mouse a Cookie and the rest in that series
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quote:Originally posted by Artemisia Tridentata: EDIT: OK, I looked and goodreads says it was first published in 79. I remember Dad reading it to me sometime before 59.
Thanks rivka. There are pen and ink illistrations that would not have been in a 70's book eather. My number 1 daughter shares a name with Atila's mother. I am now waiting for a couple of granddaughters to be old enough that I can read the book to them.
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quote:Originally posted by Ron Lambert: I loved all the Robert A. Heinlein juveniles, especially Red Planet (long live Willis!), Tunnel in the Sky, and Starman Jones. It was the latter novel that led me to have a sense of reverence for all library books. In all, Heinlein wrote 12 novels that are considered juveniles, published by Scribner's from 1947-1958.
I believe the only Heinlein novel that has been made into a movie so far is Starship Troopers, which is not considered a juvenile. I think there are plans to make some other Heinlein novels into movies, but I haven't heard anything about it in a while. Heinlein had some very conservative political views (such as only people who have served in the military should be allowed to vote), so liberal moviemakers in Hollywood probably would not be fired up by a desire to make movies out of his works.
Oddly, the book where Heinlein presents the idea that only people who have served in the military should be allowed to vote is Starship Troopers - the one book that has been made into a movie.
ETA: I would consider Heinlein more liberatarian than conservative. Before the Cold War, he had some almost socialist economic ideas.
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And, since I was reading these in the 1960s, the books in the library were the original, non-bowdlerized versions.
I also remember reading and rereading Paul Gallico's The Man Who Was Magic several times. I'm pretty sure I have a copy of the book packed away in one of my boxes.
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I was delighted, a few years later, to find out that my 6th grade science teacher was the author's nephew.
That science teacher was a favorite, anyway, and stands out in my mind as a living example of taking advantage of the "teachable moment" - and why I know more than I would otherwise know about hydrogen sulfide.
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Oh, yes--I forgot all about the Mushroom Planet. That was my first exposure to science fiction, back when I was in first grade. My teacher read it to the class. It got me hooked on the genre, when I was only five years old.
***SPOILER*** They needed sulfer.
Anybody remember Zip-zip and His Flying Saucer? They wouldn't make it into a movie, it was too silly a plot. I had to wonder if the kid's father deserved to be bailed out of his screwup that left a steamshovel needed for a new construction project in the wrong state. But it was fun and amusing to a kid in gradeschool.
I think that was the story that suggested that tonsils are the organs that enable telepathy--which was bad news to me, because my tonsils had been removed at the age of four (on the theory that it might alleviate my childhood asthma).
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