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)
The Spooky Old Tree was my favorite Berenstain Bears book!
My favorite book as a toddler was 'The Story of Ping the Duck'! I still have most of my childhood books; my aunt was an elementary school teacher and for every occasion, my sister and I received beautiful hard-back books! Now looking back at them and seeing the notes inside the front covers touches my heart. The occasions were all the traditional ones and also things like "Happy First Day of XX Grade", 'Glad your tonsils are gone" , Congratulations on a wonderful report card!! Soon they will all belong to the Princess; once her desire to rip the pages out and color on them passes.....
The Velveteen Rabbit..my all time favorite...but I liked the obnoxious red too. LOL Even tho my living room is done in chocolate and turquoise/sea glass colours.
Btw..what colour is that skein of yarn in the pink advertisement for the workshop....please......I really must have some...
all of the Narnia books!
My favorites included the "Little House on a Prairie" series and the Narnia series of course, but some of the more obscure favorites my mom read to us (books from garage sales of course) were "McBroom Tells a Lie" by Sid Fleischman, "My Father's Dragon" by Ruth Stiles Gannet, and the Serendipty books of which there were too many titles to name. Oh wait, what about "The Littles"? (I think that's what the book was titled, about the small family that lived under the floor and had tails?)
I loved all the Wizard of Oz books, Harriet the Spy, Frederick - about a mouse who collected stories and thoughts of spring flowers and warm sunshine to share with the other mice in the dead of winter instead of gathering food, and best of all, Where the Wild Things Are - who wouldn't like some "Wild Rumpus" yarn?!?
How young? I have always been so much of a book lover that there were only rare books that read again. . . When I was quite small, I loved Mr. Red Ears and the Velveteen Rabbit.
"Are You My Mother?" is one of my all-time favorites. I can quote it to you. When I got older, the "Little House" books, and eventually, "Little Women." I'd love to see you make a colorway that is a homage to Laura Ingalls Wilder, although I suppose it would be lots of beiges. It would be interesting to see how you could imagine "Little Women."
I named a colorway "Are You My Mother?" today, before I had even seen that as a suggestion. No one else in the studio had ever read it!
A Wrinkle in Time, Swiftly Titling Planet. . .anything Madeleine L'Engle. I liked her so much I named my daughter after her.
I did enjoy Anne of Green Gables, Little Women and the Babysitters Club Series; and now enjoy reading Where the Wild Things Are, Goodnight Moon, and Tikki Tikkii Tembo to my little person (oh and Circus by Lois Elhert)
The first book I ever read all by myself, when I was 4.5 years old, was Hooray for Pig. It was about a pig who was fearful about swimming, but got sad about being left behind when his friends went off swimming without him, so he conquered his fear. I also loved a book called The Magical Drawings of Mooney B. Finch; that one was about a young man who could draw so well & so magically that his designs could slide off the paper and become real; greedy people coerced him into drawing expensive things for them, so he retaliated by drawing a dragon to scare the bejeesus out of the greedy people.
Oh goodness. Then there's also The Secret Garden, and the Chronicles of Narnia, and all the Nancy Drew books, and then the Sweet Valley High books later on... so many great books. :)
I loved Peter rabbit and anything by Dr Suess.
Hands down my favorite is "Owl at Home" by Arnold Lobel. And once I could read "big" books on my own, Paddington.
Note to Sandy above: the Cherry in the Cherry Ames Nurse series was one of MY favorites. I always jokingly say that I went to the Cherry Ames School of Nursing because I was altruistic and wanted to be the very best nurse, always--just like Cherry. As a child I was often in the hospital and the best thing was the peds nurses let me stay up late and read their collection of Cherry Ames books. But I became an OB nurse instead :)
I also loved Nancy Drew and Louisa May Alcott. I think Rose in Bloom and maybe Little Women and Little Men could be colorways, don't you? Or Eight Cousins. I love those stories and so did my daughter.
If Rose in Bloom becomes a TIG yarn....I must have it! Please remember me!
Now I know I'm being too wordy...but the other posts that include Island of the Blue Dolphins and Where the Red Fern Grows--they make me very nostalgic, too. My husband had his 5th grade classes read them both after I introduced him to those books as an adult. Great entries from lots of book lovers.
Comtesse de Segur, Paul Feval, Alexandre Dumas, Theophile Gauthier, Enid Blyton, Georges Chaulet, Alphonse Daudet, Marcel Pagnol, Marcel Aime, Tom Hill, Bernard Clavel, Jack London... ;-) Too much books and all with love...
Oh, definitely Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia. Also, Madeleine L'Engle's books, the Redwall series, some of Nancy Farmer's books, Jane Austen, His Dark Materials, Garth Nix's Old Kingdom series, and so many more.