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Tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff.
Sep 06, 2011 19:39 by kellydna -
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I love the entire series.
Sep 06, 2011 16:00 by thedigitalghost -
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Sep 06, 2011 12:32 by essexboyracer -
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True story about my love affair with a particular author of childrens' sci-fi books: As a child, I regularly raided the elementary and middle school library's shelves for the sci fi books of a particular author. Those books always had an adolescent boy protagonist and a message of positivism, embracing alien cultures, scientific discovery, and so on. Later, I mis-remembered the author's name and though it was Robert Heinlein. I went back to re-read what I thought were his books, and found that Heinlein's works are racist, pro-military garbage like "Starship Troopers". Only recently did I rediscover the true name of the author whose work I'd loved, and a big surprise on top of that: The author was Andre Norton...and he was a SHE. She was an extremely prolific sci fi author from the 1930s up through the 1960s, the "golden age" of science fiction. Now I'm greedily reading all the works of hers that I'd not read before.
Sep 06, 2011 11:48 by sethness -
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At last, a mission that doesn't feel like we're simply documenting a triviality or reinforcing the consumerist urge. This one may actually guide parents, uncles, and babysitters!
I'll mention a few books.
1) Best gift(s) I ever got were blank "Academy sketch" pads from my grandparents. Every Christmas and birthday, I could rely on them. From age 2 up to college times, these were basic beloved "books".2) When I was too young to write words, my Mom would let me draw the pictures and she would write down the story I told. In this way, I was encouraged to draw and read and ..well.. sort of write.
3) From the time when I couldn't read yet, I remember "little golden books": specifically, one that taught textures by including little samples like fake fur, sandpaper, shiny tinfoil, and so on. In retrospect, it would have been better to have made one, or have one made by a family member.
4) From the earliest times i could read, I loved the "purple crayon" book, and Dr. Seuss books like "Green Eggs and Ham" and "The Cat in the Hat". I also remember one about "Is that an angry rhino? Is that a charging elephant?" but can't recall the title. In the end, "that" was the sound of a kid stamping around while holding a quilt over his head.
5) One best-loved book that I read again and again from age 3 to teenage years was a hefty book of natural history, including chapters on dinosaurs, archaeologists, pueblo Indians, and so on.
6) "Encyclopedia Brown" mini-mystery books. Each chapter was a puzzle with all the clues in it; at the end of the book were short explanations of each puzzle's solution. Encyclopedia Brown was like Harry Potter in popularity, in its time, but had positive real-world messages instead of Harry Potter's incessantly morbid, paranoid downward spiral.
7) Judy Bloom books. I came to them late, but really enjoyed learning about relationships and how to cope with people by reading Judy Bloom's preteen angst books.
8) The book I *wish* I'd read so much earlier, and which I'll press into my childrens' hands, comes in two forms: gathered together in T H White's "The Book of Merlyn", or scattered throughout the early chapters of T H White's "The Once and Future King". It's a group of magical lessons in objectivity, in which Merlin transforms King Arthur (as a child in one book, as an aged adult in the other book) into various animals to see the world from their perspective. Flying swans see a world without "real" national or property borders; ants see a world of war and propaganda; small fish see that might does not equal right; and so on.
Sep 06, 2011 11:30 by sethness-
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I lived encyclopedia brown! My son is reading Saxby Smart, which is very similar, but more modern (technology and stuff)
Sep 06, 2011 14:53 by jenaissance. -
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#2 Neat! Do you or your mom still have those stories? What a treasure if you do.
Sep 06, 2011 19:38 by kellydna.
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I have trouble remembering specific books, but I know I enjoyed quite a few of "The Famous Five" books.
Sep 06, 2011 10:46 by chaomancer-
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Is "The Famous Five" the nickname of the most popular kids' books of all time, or is it the name of characters like The Hardy Boys or The Fantastic Four, who appear in a string of books?
Sep 06, 2011 11:49 by sethness.
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Sep 06, 2011 10:39 by zoe from iphone-
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I came very close to choosing this book.
Sep 06, 2011 16:01 by thedigitalghost.
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The Great Pie Robbery by Richard Scarry. Sam and Dudley are detectives who have to solve the case.
The Supermarket Mystery is another of my favourite Sam and Dudley books.Sep 06, 2011 09:47 by demander-
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Why does the name Richard Scarry sound so familiar? Did he do another series of children's books?
I remember reading them, but not these two detectives.
Sep 06, 2011 11:34 by sethness. -
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@sethness: yes, he's done lots of kids books and all with fantastic illustrations which I guess he's most famous for. All using animals as people like mice driving cars and dogs as waiters etc...
Sep 06, 2011 11:45 by demander. -
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Big huge Richard Scarry fan! I think it was the "Busy, Busy World" book that piqued my love of travel!
Sep 06, 2011 13:22 by saxchik. -
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:PPPPPPPP aw
Sep 06, 2011 16:07 by discomeg2.
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Sep 06, 2011 09:12 by splashmary -
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Around second or third grade. There were dozens of these on all subjects... I had them all.
Sep 06, 2011 07:37 by jdproductions -
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Sep 06, 2011 06:28 by saxchik -
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Sep 06, 2011 05:43 by discomeg2 -
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I have no clue what I loved as a child.
The only childrens book(s) I like these days are the HP books.Sep 06, 2011 05:28 by stephie-
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The first HP book was a fun romp through a child's wish-fulfillment universe, but aren't you bothered by the definite trend (shown in your photo) that the later books grow ever thicker, and ever darker in their paranoia and LACK of fun, light, wholesome themes? I think I'd let my child read the first book, but hide the existence of the rest lest he turn into a paranoid rabid anti-terrorism / war-on-drugs / McCarthyist individual who can't tell the difference between reality and a paranoid dream.
Sep 06, 2011 11:37 by sethness. -
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Were you constantly drunk as a child too?
Sep 06, 2011 16:02 by thedigitalghost.
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Sep 06, 2011 04:59 by te75uo from iphone-
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One of my friends was just showing me this book the other night! It looks so funny, I totally want a copy of it!
Sep 06, 2011 09:11 by splashmary. -
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Bwaaahahahaa. So, as you read this to your kid, you're expected to do something like Victor Borge's "Pronunctuation", bleeping out your own F-bombs?
Sep 06, 2011 11:39 by sethness. -
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Sep 06, 2011 14:26 by te75uo. -
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You MUST hear Samuel l. Jacson read it, I wads crying from laughter
Sep 06, 2011 14:55 by jenaissance.
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Sep 06, 2011 04:21 by toyotaboy-
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I have very mixed feelings about this book. At face value, it seems like a book about allowing a complete lack of objectivity on the human's part, and a colossal stupidity on the tree's part, as the kid takes and takes, even to the point of sitting on the dead tree's stump, and the tree just gives and gives willingly, without expecting reward or even a degree of protection from harm. Is it a metaphor for oil companies raping the environment?
Sep 06, 2011 11:41 by sethness. -
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This was going to be mine. I like it too.
Sep 07, 2011 21:02 by faith. -
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@sethness As I see it, this is a picture of unconditional love. it's like a mothers love, she gives and gives. They rarely get thanked for all the work they do, laundry, cooking. All of this stuff is expected, and it is her job if she has chosen it, but thanks is nice. I don't think it was intended as an environmental thing but it very well could be. i've not looked it up.
Sep 07, 2011 21:04 by faith.
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Half-brownie (a pixie-like creature, apparently) Mr Pinkwhistle intervenes in situations and sorts out crooked people. Top stuff.
Sep 06, 2011 02:13 by glozboy -
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Sep 06, 2011 00:22 by jackcomrie-
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I wish I could say "I do not like it, Sam I am" ... but I think this is mine too.
Sep 06, 2011 02:42 by demander. -
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Classic stuff. It uses a vocabulary of less than 250 words, but teaches an important lesson in objectivity: Doubting one's assumptions.
Sep 06, 2011 11:42 by sethness. -
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I will not kill you Son of Sam.
Sep 06, 2011 16:01 by thedigitalghost.
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