5 thoughts on “Looking for something good to read”
Since I faced the same limits four years earlier than you did, I want to add that all this “digging” and reading you did took place before you were 9 years old!!!
Those orange biographies had me enthralled, too, as well as Mom’s anthologies. One of my favorite stories was “The Girl With Seven Names.” I can still recite them! Remember “Time for Poetry?” and don’t forget the story books that were given us by children who had outgrown them. The Louvre picture book kept me busy for hours. I also recall a fondness for that science book Christmas present that had the experiments in it. (You were keen to try the coal “snow” one more than once. We had the coal for our old furnace, but Mom didn’t use blueing so that was an extra purchase!)
It’s also time to say something about the Golden Book series of records that had such an impact on our music education, but that’s another day’s blog, I’m sure!
P.S. I remember reading the back of everything – cereal boxes, cake mixes, detergent bottles – and of course cookbooks, especially the classic red Betty Crocker and the red plaid Better Homes and Gardens. That might explain why you continue to get my hand-me-down clothes….
Another thought provoking post.
I read a lot of book series “Sideways Stories from Wayside School”, “Animorphs”, “Goosebumps”, “Nancy Drew”. I was in love with the Wayside School books and the illogical absurdness of its characters. A school that was supposed to be one story high with 30 classrooms side by side is accidentally built sideways so that it is 30 stories with one classroom on each floor, what is there not to love?
One book I stumbled across in my elementary school library was called “Half-Magic” by Edward Eager. A coin that only grants half-wishes caused comedic moments and exploration across space and time, the kind of journeys I wished I could take. In high school during Read Across America I volunteered to go to a class and read a story. So while I was searching for a book in the elementary school library I ran into “Half-Magic” and ended up sitting in the library for an hour, reconnecting with the past.
So many books I’m starting to think of, I better stop before my comment becomes an essay.
I had “The Three Scallywags” read to us by my dad on Sunday evenings if we were good.I was pre-teen then. Mother didn’t want me to circulate that one thru you girls. Mybe now you can read it.
Who could ever forget ” run Spot run…”
I enjoyed the search also. Everything was a little less available to us in the 40’s and 50’s so we enjoyed finding buried treasures.
I think my favorite memory is of my Nancy Drew years.
Since I faced the same limits four years earlier than you did, I want to add that all this “digging” and reading you did took place before you were 9 years old!!!
Those orange biographies had me enthralled, too, as well as Mom’s anthologies. One of my favorite stories was “The Girl With Seven Names.” I can still recite them! Remember “Time for Poetry?” and don’t forget the story books that were given us by children who had outgrown them. The Louvre picture book kept me busy for hours. I also recall a fondness for that science book Christmas present that had the experiments in it. (You were keen to try the coal “snow” one more than once. We had the coal for our old furnace, but Mom didn’t use blueing so that was an extra purchase!)
It’s also time to say something about the Golden Book series of records that had such an impact on our music education, but that’s another day’s blog, I’m sure!
P.S. I remember reading the back of everything – cereal boxes, cake mixes, detergent bottles – and of course cookbooks, especially the classic red Betty Crocker and the red plaid Better Homes and Gardens. That might explain why you continue to get my hand-me-down clothes….
Another thought provoking post.
I read a lot of book series “Sideways Stories from Wayside School”, “Animorphs”, “Goosebumps”, “Nancy Drew”. I was in love with the Wayside School books and the illogical absurdness of its characters. A school that was supposed to be one story high with 30 classrooms side by side is accidentally built sideways so that it is 30 stories with one classroom on each floor, what is there not to love?
One book I stumbled across in my elementary school library was called “Half-Magic” by Edward Eager. A coin that only grants half-wishes caused comedic moments and exploration across space and time, the kind of journeys I wished I could take. In high school during Read Across America I volunteered to go to a class and read a story. So while I was searching for a book in the elementary school library I ran into “Half-Magic” and ended up sitting in the library for an hour, reconnecting with the past.
So many books I’m starting to think of, I better stop before my comment becomes an essay.
I had “The Three Scallywags” read to us by my dad on Sunday evenings if we were good.I was pre-teen then. Mother didn’t want me to circulate that one thru you girls. Mybe now you can read it.
Who could ever forget ” run Spot run…”
I enjoyed the search also. Everything was a little less available to us in the 40’s and 50’s so we enjoyed finding buried treasures.
I think my favorite memory is of my Nancy Drew years.