Childrens Books
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GeezLouise
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Nickel said:
I think I am thinking of the right book....Is "I'll Love You Forever" the one about the dog?
When I was growing up, we had a set of what was simply called Children's Classics, although a lot of them wouldn't really be "children's books". They did include stories like Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, Last of the Mohicans, Sleepy Hollow and Paul Bunyan. I was a bit of a prodigy, because I read them before entering first grade.
Of course, that didn't mean I still didn't like Dr. Seuss and regular ol' children's books, like Charlotte's Web, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and so on. I think someone mentioned Beverly Cleary? I think those were the Henry Huggins books - I read those as a kid also. Also, the Hardy Boys, but they're kind of dated nowadays.
But I think what I REALLY enjoyed as a boy was the children's encyclopedia. It didn't just have little articles about everything imaginable with graphs and pictures - it had stories and myths and fairy tales and everything in it. I think there were about ten volumes, and eventually I read the whole thing. I knew every inch of that encyclopedia.
Being also a science geek - I also loved books my parents got me about dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, geology and fossils, rocks - I was probably the only first grader who knew what an igneous rock was or what how obsidian was formed or where amber came from.
The girls in my household liked all the Misty books - "Misty of Chincoteague". Horse books.
My parents usually got me any book I wanted from those little book things you brought back from school - even though mostly I wanted Peanuts paperbacks.
Of course, that didn't mean I still didn't like Dr. Seuss and regular ol' children's books, like Charlotte's Web, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and so on. I think someone mentioned Beverly Cleary? I think those were the Henry Huggins books - I read those as a kid also. Also, the Hardy Boys, but they're kind of dated nowadays.
But I think what I REALLY enjoyed as a boy was the children's encyclopedia. It didn't just have little articles about everything imaginable with graphs and pictures - it had stories and myths and fairy tales and everything in it. I think there were about ten volumes, and eventually I read the whole thing. I knew every inch of that encyclopedia.
Being also a science geek - I also loved books my parents got me about dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, geology and fossils, rocks - I was probably the only first grader who knew what an igneous rock was or what how obsidian was formed or where amber came from.
The girls in my household liked all the Misty books - "Misty of Chincoteague". Horse books.
My parents usually got me any book I wanted from those little book things you brought back from school - even though mostly I wanted Peanuts paperbacks.
