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 Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:25 pm Post subject: Re: Name some books you read when you were a child...
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How old are we talking here?
The one thing of which I am positive is that there is much of which to be negative - Mr. P.
The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart...Scorsese's "Mean Streets"
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject: Re: Name some books you read when you were a child...
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No particular age.
I read a whole bunch of the "Hardy Boys" books when I was younger, along with the "Danny Dunn" series. I absolutely loved Danny Dunn books.
Pistachio Prescription was one I found laying around and enjoyed a great deal. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject: Re: Name some books you read when you were a child...
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| Chris' post on the Hardy Boys reminded me that I read through the Nancy Drew collection that my mom bought me as a child. The one book I still have from when I was a child is Shel Silversteen's The Giving Tree. I keep that book at work and still tear up every year that I read it to the children! |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject: Re: Name some books you read when you were a child...
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what does tarav mean ? tear up - or tear up??? I'm not being mean. So, tell please. I cry at most of all my childhood dreams.
Some of mine:
All Narnia books.
Milke Mulligan and the Steam Shovel
The Bunyip
All the Anne books - (Canada - girls)
and Philip Pullman - well, I grew up in Oxford - haha - and I know the hole in the road.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:35 pm Post subject: Re: Name some books you read when you were a child...
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Books that I remember enjoying...
"The Black Pearl", by Scott O'Dell.
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", by C.S. Lewis ( -- I never got much beyond that in the series).
"The Hobbit", by J.R.R. Tolkein.
Books I would recommend for children today...
Anything by Edward Eager, starting with "Half Magic".
"The Chronicles of Prydain", by Lloyd Alexander.
The Moomintroll books, by Tove Jansson.
I have a great fondness for juvie and children's fiction, and usually read one every month or so. |
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