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bella
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Username: Bella
Post Number: 280
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2003 - 5:04 pm: |     |
Okay, I've decided I need to see something on MOL that does not deal with war, politcs, property value, France, etc. So, to that end, here is the topic that I have decided upon: what was/were your favorite childhood book(s)?
mine:
The Secret Garden (thanks to Mrs. Froelich at Seth Boyden)
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Gone Away Lake
all of the Little House books
the Encyclopedia Brown books
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ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1088
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2003 - 6:01 pm: | |
early childhood:
Ferdinand by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson
The Red Balloon (woops, that's french)by A. Lamorisse
Skiddycock Pond (author?)
all The Lonely Doll books by Dare Wright
Marceline le monstre (woops, french again)author?
all Joan Walsh Anglund books
later childhood:
Charlotte's Web (isn't it everyone's fave?!)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Popo
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Username: Popo
Post Number: 10
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2003 - 9:49 pm: | |
Anne of Green Gables
Anything by E. Nesbitt |
phyllis
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Username: Phyllis
Post Number: 144
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 31, 2003 - 10:42 pm: | |
Young child -
Harold and the Purple Crayon
Milton the Early Riser
Cloudy wiht a Chance of Meatballs
Older child -
The Phantom Tollbooth
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM (or NIMH?)
James and the Giant Peach
Wrinkle in Time and also the Austin series by L'Engle |
annettedepalma
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Username: Annettedepalma
Post Number: 243
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 9:49 am: | |
Little Women
The Diary of Anne Frank
all Nancy Drew books
I had a book with Sherlock Holmes stories abridged for kids, but I can't remember the name of it |
duncanrogers
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 341
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 10:29 am: | |
James and The Giant Peach
All Encyclopedia Brown
The Wind in the Willows
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
And The Hardy Boys
P.S. Great thread choice!!!! |
Seagull
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Username: Seagull
Post Number: 17
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 10:49 am: | |
Early Childhood-
Madeline books
Amelia Bedelia (sp?) books
Curious George
Later Childhood-
A lot of them are listed above! (Rats of NIMH, Anne of Green Gables & Anne of Avonlea)
Superfudge
There was one about a girl that got locked in a museum. I can't remember the name of it, but remember loving it! |
eliz
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Username: Eliz
Post Number: 489
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 10:55 am: | |
Maybe you mean From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - the main character and her brother run away to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I must have read that 10 times. |
eliz
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Username: Eliz
Post Number: 490
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 11:11 am: | |
My very favorites were Enid Blyton books - I begged my parents to send me to boarding school in England. I also loved:
Anne of Green Gables series
All of a Kind Family series
Little Women
Bobbsey Twins then Nancy Drew
Little House series |
gozerbrown
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Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 146
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 11:15 am: | |
Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
The Secret Garden
The Little Princess
Strawberry Girl
Cherry Ames books
(pssst....for all you book lovers...I wish more people would post to the Book Club!) |
duncanrogers
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 347
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 12:26 pm: | |
I forgot some books that I still read every year around Christmas
The Chronicals of Narnia |
duncanrogers
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Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 348
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 12:28 pm: | |
I forgot some books that I still read every year around Christmas
The Chronicles of Narnia |
ml1
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Username: Ml1
Post Number: 808
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 12:53 pm: | |
Hardy Boys
now I'm reading them to my son. |
bella
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Username: Bella
Post Number: 281
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 1:04 pm: | |
Oh, I forgot about LM Montgomery's books, the Anne of Green Gables books were the best, but the Emily books weren't bad either
the Betsy - Tacey books, I discovered them at the library when I was participating in the annual summer reading program
the Borrowers, which I found either at Seth Boyden's library or the Hilton Branch Library} |
ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1091
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 1:17 pm: | |
Alice in Wonderland is still a good read, on the chaos level if you know what I mean. Same with Metamorphosis (Dostoyevsky). I wish I were back in college. I wish I didn't fall asleep in bed every time I crack open a book. |
Wilkanoid
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Username: Cseleosida
Post Number: 32
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 2:00 pm: | |
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Little Prince |
barleyrooty
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Username: Barleyrooty
Post Number: 569
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 3:29 pm: | |
Pre-Teen:
The Phantom Tollbooth
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
Harriet the Spy
The Hobbit
Young adult:
Foundation series (Asimov)
Lord of the Rings
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series
Hello, my name is Phil and I'm a nerd.
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greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1559
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 3:56 pm: | |
A Wrinkle in Time
Any Nancy Drew
Little Women
Jr. High: Anything by Sinclair Lewis & almost any biography. |
drewdix
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Username: Drewdix
Post Number: 304
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 5:01 pm: | |
Who's a Pest? (early)
The Boy Who Loved The Sea (a little later)
Flowers for Algernon (jr. high- I think the first novel I ever read, and the first one I remember that had sex in it)
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greenetree
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Username: Greenetree
Post Number: 1560
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 5:17 pm: | |
Tiny thread drift..
When I was 12, I was reading a book called 'Mr & Mrs Bo Jo Jones' (or something like that) that I had checked out of the library. It was about a high school couple who had sex, got pregnant & got married. They had to drop out, get jobs, give up college, etc. It was actually not a bad book for adolescents to read.
My dad walked into my room, saw me reading this book with a picture of a boy & girl kissing on the cover, turned red & went and asked my mother why I was reading a risque book at that age. I think that's the first time it occurred to my father that I would grow up into a young woman & be interested in that sort of thing.  |
algebra2
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Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 814
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 - 7:57 pm: | |
The Famous Five books by Enid Blyton. |
gozerbrown
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Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 147
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 10:32 am: | |
Greenetree,
That is great! My brother and mother flipped out when, in seventh grade, I was reading "Forever" by Judy Blume. (it was pretty risque, back in the day.)I believe the only devastating consequence to their "actions" was breaking up.
But, I do recall reading this book called Sharelle or something like that where this teen got pregnant and was pretty much shunned by the entire school. It made a pretty big impact on my early years.
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gozerbrown
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Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 148
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 10:35 am: | |
I also find that when I'm feeling frazzled, I need the security of reading children's books. (My name is gozerbrown...and I'm a little nuts.) So yesterday I borrowed "Summer of the Swans" from the library and read it on the train yesterday and this morning. Not the happiest book in the world... |
gozerbrown
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Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 149
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 10:37 am: | |
I also find that when I'm feeling frazzled, I need the security of reading children's books. (My name is gozerbrown...and I'm a little nuts.) So yesterday I borrowed "Summer of the Swans" from the library and read it on the train yesterday and this morning. Not the happiest book in the world... |
gozerbrown
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Username: Gozerbrown
Post Number: 150
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 10:38 am: | |
I also find that when I'm feeling frazzled, I need the security of reading children's books. (My name is gozerbrown...and I'm a little nuts.) So yesterday I borrowed "Summer of the Swans" from the library and read it on the train yesterday and this morning. Not the happiest book in the world... |
shoshannah
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Username: Shoshannah
Post Number: 101
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 10:42 am: | |
All the Beverly Cleary "Ramona" books.
Harriet the Spy.
Pippi Longstocking. |
Wendyn
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Username: Wendyn
Post Number: 43
Registered: 9-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 11:35 am: | |
I just love that as my daughter grows up we can share some of the books I loved as a child. Now I'm stuck reading Clifford every day...
- The Giving Tree
- The Velveteen Rabbit
- Little House on the Prarie series
- Narnia series
- Anything by Madeline L'Engle
And so many more... |
smithford
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Username: Smithford
Post Number: 84
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 12:40 pm: | |
No one has said it,
No one, not yet.
But all will agree it's a great one, I bet.
The best of them all
(and on this I stand pat)
is the Dr. Seuss classic,
The Cat in the Hat.
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galileo
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Username: Galileo
Post Number: 92
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 5:17 pm: | |
Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Secret Garden
Winnie The Pooh
The Oz books among many others |
smithford
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Username: Smithford
Post Number: 85
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 5:42 pm: | |
Ffof - Isn't The Metamorphosis by Kafka, not Dostoyevsky?
And either way, do they count as a childhood book?
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ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 1099
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 10:05 pm: | |
just making sure someone was actually reading my posts! |
Mrt
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Username: Mrt
Post Number: 15
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 2, 2003 - 10:19 pm: | |
When quite young
Snip, Snap and Snur.
Now We Are Six, by A.A. Milne
As I grew a little older,
Anything by Claire Bee, mostly sports stories.
and anything by Beverly Cleary, Henry, Henry and the Paperoute, Henry and Beezus, ......
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NancyJanow
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 787
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, April 3, 2003 - 9:07 am: | |
http://www.nypl.org/branch/kids/100/animal.html
Check out this list of Best Kids Books from the New York Public Library.
Then check out the NY Times list of current popular children's books www.nytimes.com/books
Will our kids look back fondly on Captain Underpants and Walter The Farting Dog? Me, I want them to read Wrinkle in Time , Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Horton Hatches an Egg.
NCJ aka LL |
teach75
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Username: Teach75
Post Number: 2
Registered: 3-2003
| | Posted on Friday, April 4, 2003 - 7:53 pm: | |
As an early childhood teacher, my favorites are the ones that I don't get tired of reading EVERY day!
anything by Eric Carle
the Little Miss Spider series
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
From growing up:
Anything in the Little House Series
Nancy Drew
Hardy Boys
and the Shoe series
Actually, I read anything that I could get my hands on, and still do!! |
Joan
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Username: Joancrystal
Post Number: 1562
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 9, 2003 - 8:21 pm: | |
Le Petit Prince
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
Harold and The Purple Crayon
All of the Oz books
Alice in Wonderland
the Nancy Drew Books
The Barbar books
The Hobbit
A Child's Garden of Verses
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musicme
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Username: Musicme
Post Number: 315
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, April 14, 2003 - 10:43 pm: | |
Joan, I heard this weekend that the woman that wrote the Babar books died. She was 99. |
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