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Posted by sleepygirl on March 8, 2006, at 19:02:33
I love the simple messages, the illustrations, so much about them....
I bought an Eric Carle book today about clouds and the shapes they can make just because I thought it was so cool. When I worked in a bookstore, a very long time ago, I put myself "in charge" of the picture books. Check this one out, written by Maya Angelou, illustrations by Basquiat (deceased painter)
"Life Doesn't Frighten Me"
Posted by Damos on March 9, 2006, at 16:40:04
In reply to anyone else really like children's books?, posted by sleepygirl on March 8, 2006, at 19:02:33
Do I ever.
I still have the very first 'real' book I ever got "Gentle Ben". Loved "The Little Prince" by "Antoine de Saint Exupery" and the Dragons series by "Patricia C Wrede". I've also heard that the books by "Emily Rodda" are great too, but haven't read any yet. Now I'm gonna have to go home and find my Coles Funny Picture Book No 4 and spend the whole weekend is sweet remembrances. Thanks you :-)
Will check out that link too.
Take good care okay.
Posted by sleepygirl on March 9, 2006, at 20:52:53
In reply to Re: anyone else really like children's books? » sleepygirl, posted by Damos on March 9, 2006, at 16:40:04
oh yes!! the Little Prince....what a great book! I haven't read the others though. I just ordered some children's books. I love reading to the little ones.
Posted by sleepygirl on March 9, 2006, at 20:57:42
In reply to Re: anyone else really like children's books? » sleepygirl, posted by Damos on March 9, 2006, at 16:40:04
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0152167110/drbobsvirte00-20
Posted by Racer on March 10, 2006, at 2:19:14
In reply to ooh, ooh look what I found :-), posted by sleepygirl on March 9, 2006, at 20:57:42
You see, in an old house in Paris, that was covered in vines...
WAIT! No, that was in an old flat in San Francisco, and there were no vines, although there was honeysuckle wrapped around the back staircase...
"Madeline" was one of my very favorites, and I could recite most of it. But the one that was most special to me was "Curious George." He was in a car accident and broke his leg, and it was put in a cast, and he got to ride in a go-cart. And then I was hit by a car, shortly before my fifth birthday, and I broke my leg, and they put it in a cast (eventually -- after a month in traction) and they let me ride in a go-cart. I wanted to roll the wheels, just like Curious George, but they wouldn't let me. I had to let them push me. But I got a green lollipop, so it was OK. (Mostly -- I wanted to Do It Myself, and I wanted to go really fast like Curious George.)
So, "Curious George" was special to me, but I loved "Madeline" a lot, too. And later, "A Wrinkle in Time," and a bunch of horse books, and "Paddington," and the John Christopher books, like "The White Mountains," and oh so many others! The bookcase in our guest room is filled with my children's books. And my mother has others, like "Broccoli," which is about an old stag...
OH! How could I forget! "The Nutshell Library!" With "One Was Johnny," who lived by himself, and "Chicken Soup With Rice" -- In January it's so nice, while slipping on the sliding ice, to sip hot chicken soup with rice; sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice. Those were some of my very favorites. As was the book that tells about the night Max's mother called him Wild Thing and sent him to bed without his supper...
Posted by sleepygirl on March 10, 2006, at 12:21:49
In reply to I LOVE children's books!, posted by Racer on March 10, 2006, at 2:19:14
I love George myself. I even have a couple of pictures of him up (I don't have kids by the way :-).
I got the soundtrack to the curious george movie, and while some of it is really meant for kids, a lot of it isn't necessarily, and it's nice mellow music, very sweet stuff mostly by Jack Johnson.
The other day I say some of the "Amelia Bedelia" books, and I suddenly remembered them, and how nice they were to read...
I had a lot of favorites, one of them was "The Dancing Man", they were wonderful company :-)
Posted by ClearSkies on March 11, 2006, at 7:46:23
In reply to anyone else really like children's books?, posted by sleepygirl on March 8, 2006, at 19:02:33
My T just suggested that I reread some of my favourite children's books so I can relive the joy of the stories and how they made me feel.
I'm going to dig into "Trixie Belden", "The Bobsey Twins" and "Nancy Drew"CS
Posted by Racer on March 11, 2006, at 13:34:48
In reply to Re: anyone else really like children's books? » sleepygirl, posted by ClearSkies on March 11, 2006, at 7:46:23
Do you still have the REAL Nancy Drew books? The honest-to-goodness, not updated Nancy Drew? BLISS! I'm coming to your house, and I'll bring some of my old friends -- "I'll show you mine if you show me yours?" -- like "Charlotte Sometimes" and "The Egypt Game" and "Half Magic" and "Seven Day Magic" and "The Monday Horses" and oh, so many more!
And, in return, maybe I can read "The Hidden Staircase" and all the others that I can't remember the titles of... lol Been a while...
Posted by ClearSkies on March 11, 2006, at 21:07:57
In reply to !!!!!!!!!!!!! » ClearSkies, posted by Racer on March 11, 2006, at 13:34:48
My sister has custody of the Nancy Drew and Bobsey Twins books, although they were all culled from the Salvation Army store 35 years ago. the Trixie Beldens are mine.
I also have a Tintin (do you know of him? Belgian, and how I learned to read French) that I ended up ordering from a company in India. There were some interesting changes in expressions...I read "A Wrinkle In Time" every other year or so. It really excited me that people wrote such stories.
CS
Posted by Racer on March 12, 2006, at 2:26:29
In reply to Re: !!!!!!!!!!!!! » Racer, posted by ClearSkies on March 11, 2006, at 21:07:57
(I don't know, does your cat chirp like that? Some of mine have...)
Love Tintin, although seem to have had my copies -- uh -- "liberated" and I can bet the ex who did that. Also love the other "Wrinkle in Time" books: "A Wind In The Door," "A Swiftly Tilting Planet," and the one that focusses on the twins: "Many Waters." Some of her other books also include Meg and Calvin, although they are there as parents, not protagonists. Can't remember which ones, though. Maybe "A Ring of Endless Light?"
OK, so what we gotta do is fold up the country, tesseract style, and we can build a compound that houses all of our books, and we can just {purrp} and lie in the sunbeams and lap up cream and children's books...
I can hardly wait -- I'll even start memorizing again: "in an old house in Paris..."
Posted by LegWarmers on March 12, 2006, at 12:41:01
In reply to {purrp purrp} mrrrerw » ClearSkies, posted by Racer on March 12, 2006, at 2:26:29
> "in an old house in Paris..."
aww, that was one of my very very favorites!! : )
Posted by Deneb on March 14, 2006, at 22:04:51
In reply to I LOVE children's books!, posted by Racer on March 10, 2006, at 2:19:14
I love "A Wrinkle in Time", I bought it a few years ago when I saw it in a bookstore and it brought back memories.
Deneb
Posted by Deneb on March 14, 2006, at 22:23:45
In reply to {purrp purrp} mrrrerw » ClearSkies, posted by Racer on March 12, 2006, at 2:26:29
I have the other Wrinkle in Time books too. I also love "Watership Down" (it even made me cry).
I used to read as a kid. I don't know why I don't anymore. I vaguely remember books by Roald Dahl, Beverly Clearly, Charles Dickens (during teens) and others.
I used to like fantasy books. I remember I used to like some series. In one of them, people live on this planet with very little gravity and they fly all around the place. I don't remember what it was. I wish I did. I want to read them again.
Deneb
Posted by James K on March 14, 2006, at 23:28:28
In reply to Re: {purrp purrp} mrrrerw, posted by Deneb on March 14, 2006, at 22:23:45
children's books are great. It is a pleasure to buy for my sisters' children. ''Mary Poppins'' "The Borrowers" "Cricket in Times Square" all those books influenced me and are still available. the saddest children? book I ever read was I think it was called " the Boy Who Could Disapear" it was so sad. More a young persons book. or a book for adults. I'm scared to hunt it down.
JamesK
Posted by James K on March 14, 2006, at 23:32:54
In reply to Re: {purrp purrp} mrrrerw » Deneb, posted by James K on March 14, 2006, at 23:28:28
> children's books are great. It is a pleasure to buy for my sisters' children. "Mary Poppins" "The Borrowers" "Cricket in Times Square" all those books influenced me and are still available. the saddest children? book I ever read was I think it was called "the Boy Who Could Disapear" it was so sad. More a young persons book. or a book for adults. I'm scared to hunt it down.
>
> JamesK
I've reposted this to try and get the amazon thing happening, I dont understand it, but I'm trying. I've bought or cared about these books in the last couple of years.James K
Posted by ClearSkies on March 15, 2006, at 7:42:22
In reply to {purrp purrp} mrrrerw » ClearSkies, posted by Racer on March 12, 2006, at 2:26:29
> (I don't know, does your cat chirp like that? Some of mine have...)
>
My cat chirps to me all the time! Sometimes we'll get a little conversation going, though I've no idea what we are talking about. I'm usually telling her how beautiful she is; and I imagine she is saying, "But of course I am.">
> OK, so what we gotta do is fold up the country, tesseract style, and we can build a compound that houses all of our books, and we can just {purrp} and lie in the sunbeams and lap up cream and children's books...
>It's funny, I really don't care for my local library. The folks who work in it don't appear to be very enuthusiastic about books and I'm disappointed when I can't even get small talk started about a book I am checking out or returning. They're too busy, I suppose. I bet we'd have a heck of a reading room with our collections put together.
I'll happily forego my library for a trip to a bookstore and spend what feels like hours poring over the stacks there.
Borders started a frequent buyer program which might actually curtail my Amazon spending. It's pretty nice to have a latte in one hand and a book to peruse in the other.> I can hardly wait -- I'll even start memorizing again: "in an old house in Paris..."
:-)
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