Monday
Sep272010
Time to play!
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 7:35AM For fun.
Because I'm silly and like games.
Because I often ask my husband ridiculous hypothetical questions that he hates to answer. (Would you rather live in a cave, never seeing the light of day until you were 150 years old, or would you rather live in a beautiful palace in the Alps and die when you're 75?)
Because it's Monday and we have one million skeins of yarn to ship today.
Because I'm still wearing my fuzzy pistachio green bathrobe and I have to be to work in 20 minutes.
For fun, OK? For fun.
What were your favorite children's books when you were growing up?
Maybe your faves will show up as a colorway name, you never know!
P.S. The answer to the poll in the post below this one is C.
See, you are smart.
I knew I liked you.
Reader Comments (85)
Wrinkle in Time! Probably was my all time favorite book as a kid. Although Anne of Green Gables was prominent too, as was Island of Blue Dolphins. I loved anything Nancy Drew, of course and Charlotte's Web.
Have a great day!
Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls.
It was the first book that made me cry, I was in 4th grade, and I didn't even grow up with dogs. We couldn't because my sister got bit by a dog, and my Dad was(and still is) afraid of dogs.
I now have three beautiful Samoyeds and thank my lucky stars everyday that I now know the unconditional love that a dog can give.
Is Your Mama a Llama?
Is your mama a llama? I asked my friend Rhonda
No she is not, is how Rhonda responded
She has big hind legs and a pocket for me
So I don't think a llama is what she could be
Favorite picture books: Cannonball Simp by John Burningham and the Richard Scarry books. Chapter books: Anything with horses (think Misty of Chincoteague or The Black Stallion), Madeleine L'Engle, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
It's fun to see what everyone else has listed! It might be interesting to see how it breaks down by age... (as I'm thinking, "That wasn't even around when I was a kid," or "That's been around forever and isn't it cool that people are STILL reading it!")
Saucy, which was about a terrier dog ready to have puppies and the family kept making beds for her but that Saucy found her own place to have puppies. My other favorite was The Voyage of the Maggie B. which was about a little girl who dreams of a day on the sea with her baby brother. She makes fish stew and baked peaches for dinner which seemed very exotic and delicious to me. It also had gorgeous watercolor illustrations. My current favorite (that I'm reading with my boys) is "There are Cats in this book" which has awesome flippable cats plus yarn!
The Mixed of Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankenwiler
Ooooooo I had a quick look through the comments people have made and I guess you can tell I'm in Britain. My favs when I was really little were the Enid Blyton books, specifically Three Bold Pixies and the Mr Pink-Whistle stories. When I got older it was Alan Garners The Weirdstone of Brisingamen and The Moon of Gomrath.
What a trip down memory lane ;-)
Charlotte's Web, James and the Giant Peach, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. More that I can't remember right now!
I also have a bunch of new favorites from reading to my son, including Is Your Mama a Llama.
Two of my favorite childhood books were: Part-time Dog by Jane Thayer and Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert Barry
1. Black Beauty
2. the Laura Ingals Wilder series, especially The Long Winter
3. Charlotte's Web
4. any mysteries - Bobsie Twins, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys
5. the Narnia series
_Frederick the Mouse_ by Leo Lionni. Ooo... what pretty colorways it would make too!
Five Chinese Brothers is one that has always stuck with me, although for a long time I misremembered the name of the book, because REM had a song referencing it named _Seven_ Chinese Brothers.
Also, the Phantom Tollbooth.
When I was wee, it was totally "Corduroy" by by Don Freeman - a book still on my shelves today. Also, "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel" by Virginia Burton. My old Volvo I drove in high school was named Ferdinand because of "Ferdinand" by Munro Leaf.
When I got a couple of years older, the entire "Henry Reed" series by Keith Robertson - marketed to boys at the time and still one of my favorite gifts to little men. I still reread "The Silver Crown" by Robert O'Brien. Bonus points in that one for teaching me the world "diabolical" at the age of six or seven. Always useful and so irritating to my mommy.
When I was a kid I loved reading Amelia Bedelia books. Fun to read and she was always in some kind of ridiculous predicament. Kind of like Junie B. Jones - I loved reading those to my youngest daughter.
Oh my this post is so much fun! I had forgotten about some of the books I loved. Five little Peppers and how they grew, Eight cousins,Jo's Boys, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, My Friend Flicka, Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Trixie Belden, all the Little House on the Prairie books, there are so many. I began getting lost in books when I was 7 and have never stopped. Now I get audio books to listen to while I knit. Books are the best!
And since I am gonna be a Grandma in March and April, I get to have all my old Dr Seuss books again. I have SO many books!
I loved a Wrinkle in Time, anything Judy Blume, and Anne of Green Gables. I'm getting to relive some new and old favorites with my son- Goodnight Moon, Zen Shorts, Corduroy, and Wizard of Oz.
It's so hard to list all of them (I was a geeky only child - my best friends were BOOKS!) But hands down, the ones that stand out in my memory as THE books were the Trixie Belden series.
The Poky Little Puppy, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Unicorn and the Lake...
Early picture book favorites:
* The Maggie B
* Sky Sash So Blue
* The First Tulips in Holland
Later
* BFG
* Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
* The Secret Garden
* The Little Princess