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Jilly_in_VA

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57. I'm old, so...

Fri May 10, 2024, 05:39 PM

May 10

Little Women

The Secret Garden

ALL the Betsy-Tacy books (yes, I grew up in the midwest)

The Little House books (before the evangelicals got hold of them)

All the Anne of Green Gables Books

Jean and the Good Cat Jupie

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What was your favorite children's book. Mine was The Velveteen Rabbit. I had a stuffed rabbit that went with the book. [View all] debm55 May 10 OP

First book I ever owned, Tom Sawyer.. Permanut May 10 #1

Thank you, Permanut. Somehow it got lost. As an adult I bought another book and stuffed rabbit. debm55 May 10 #7

I still have my velveteen rabbit. Ocelot II May 10 #2

Thank you Ocelot II , How nice to have the rabbit and the doll. I enjoyed Kipling's stories also. debm55 May 10 #10

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Wicked Blue May 10 #3

Thank you Wicked Blue. When I was teaching I read it to my class. debm55 May 10 #12

Through the looking glass. cayugafalls May 10 #4

How sweet. thank you cayugafalls. debm55 May 10 #13

The Walrus and the Carpenter.. Permanut May 10 #26

Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee are the origin of the Walrus, according to Paul McCartney...lol cayugafalls May 10 #50

Thank you very much. cayugafalls. debm55 May 10 #64

Ty Permanut. debm55 May 10 #63

Thank you Permanut, debm55 May 11 #123

Heidi, Black Beauty, and Child's Garden of Verses. yorkster May 10 #5

Wonderful books. ty yorkster. debm55 May 10 #14

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Because she had dark hair like mine and I thought all princess should not always be a CTyankee May 10 #6

Ty CTyankee. Felt the same too. debm55 May 10 #19

Thanks. I feel ancient since a lot of this discussion is about fairy tale stuff after the creaton of the Internet. I had CTyankee May 10 #27

TY CTyankee, I had the movies. but my first love were the actual books I could feel and smell. Also each steel mill town debm55 May 10 #65

"Heidi" tblue37 May 10 #8

I also loved all the Black Stallion books. tblue37 May 10 #11

Ty tblue37. I remember reading the book a couple of times. Hope you get better. debm55 May 10 #21

"The Story of Ferdinand" and "Make Way for Ducklings" were my early favorites. Harker May 10 #9

Oh you must have been very young, I remember Ferdinand the bull and the little ducklings. Ty, Harker. debm55 May 10 #22

The Mrs. Pigglewiggle books. Lunabell May 10 #15

Ty Lunabell, I read the Little House on the Prairie books. The series on TV was not the same. debm55 May 10 #23

Beverly Cleary has a K-4 school named after her in Portland, Oregon . Permanut May 10 #24

Thank you Permanut. Loved the author Beverly Cleary. debm55 May 11 #93

Henry Huggins was MY favorite book Thunderbeast May 10 #52

Ty Thunderbeast. I remember that book. debm55 May 11 #99

Charlotte's Web. woodsprite May 10 #16

Yeah, Charlotte influenced me. By the time I was 16 I was a vegetarian and at mucifer May 10 #17

Ty woodsprite. I always felt sorry for Charlotte. I know about the spider thing. I was outside the other day and a debm55 May 10 #28

I actually saw some "ballooning" last summer. woodsprite May 10 #41

Ty woodsprite. I have never seen them ballooning. It must have been great to watch. debm55 May 11 #94

I was 7 or 8 when I read it PJMcK May 10 #59

courious george the monkey. AllaN01Bear May 10 #18

Thank you AllaNo1Bear. Did you have the stuffed animal that went with it? debm55 May 10 #30

nope. dont think so. library books. AllaN01Bear May 10 #34

for picture books ... surrealAmerican May 10 #20

TY surrealAmerican. I really liked Blueberries for Sal. debm55 May 10 #31

Charlotte's Web. It was also the first movie I ever saw in a theater.... SKKY May 10 #25

TY SKKY, I saw both movies that were made. You had a visual to go with the book. debm55 May 10 #32

If I had to pick one, it would be "Go, Dog, Go" by P.D. Eastman. Different Drummer May 10 #29

Ty Different Drummer. Loved all of Dr, Seuss. books. Luckily as a child, we had a large Carnegie Library to get all the debm55 May 10 #33

One Dr. Seuss book that I was recently made aware of the existence of is... Different Drummer May 10 #38

TY I don't remember that one, I am going to look it up. debm55 May 10 #39

I loved that! electric_blue68 May 11 #78

The wind in the willows. k55f5r May 10 #35

Yes, the toad. Ty k55f5r, debm55 May 10 #40

Not sure what it says about my personality, but Mole was my favorite... malthaussen May 11 #110

HAHAHAH. TY malthaussen. That is funny. debm55 May 11 #112

"Scuppers the Sailor Dog" by Margaret Wise Brown LastDemocratInSC May 10 #36

ty LastDemocratinSC I really enjoyed Richard Scarry books. debm55 May 10 #42

i read Charlotte's Web as an adult and the cartoon much later . im not a veggin but i have great respect AllaN01Bear May 10 #37

Agree debm55 May 10 #43

Loved "The Wind in the Willows". sinkingfeeling May 10 #44

Thank you sinkingfeeling. Agree here. debm55 May 11 #100

A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle. 3catwoman3 May 10 #45

Loved that book! electric_blue68 May 11 #79

Ty 3catwoman3, I didn't know that they made a movie of it. I enjoyed the book. debm55 May 11 #96

The Mother Goose stories. Elessar Zappa May 10 #46

Thank you Elessar Zappa, debm55 May 11 #98

Cars and Trucks and Things that GO!!! Coventina May 10 #47

Ty Coventina. I really enjoyed Richard Scarry's books. I see it was a Golden Book with the gold metallic binding debm55 May 11 #102

My aunt in England Conjuay May 10 #48

Ty Conjuay. Sounds wonderful. debm55 May 11 #104

I am SO old! Tom Sawyer was definitely one of my favorites yellowdogintexas May 10 #49

Ty yellowdogintexas, Wonderful choices. I hate to say it , but I didn't like Barbar either. For some reason it debm55 May 11 #105

Mr. Popper's Penguins. Raven123 May 10 #51

My class read this. I know they did a movie of the book, but nothing beats a book, so I didn't see it. debm55 May 11 #118

Same here. Why see a movie when the magic is in the book! Raven123 May 12 #127

My very first, See Spot Run. Arne May 10 #53

Run Spot Run TY debm55 May 11 #120

Horton Hears a Who The Blue Flower May 10 #54

Loved those books. About 15 years ago. Kohl's would have classic children's books with a stuffy. I have Horton Hears a debm55 May 11 #122

The Pushcart War JoseBalow May 10 #55

ty JoseBalow debm55 May 10 #73

I still have or have replacements for some of the books I have listed. Niagara May 10 #56

Ty Great selection, PS I still read the Pooh books. debm55 May 10 #71

I'm old, so... Jilly_in_VA May 10 #57

Ty Jilly_in _Va Great selection. Some of them I read. too debm55 May 10 #70

Fun With Dick and Jane Emile May 10 #58

HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH "see Jane run. Run Jane run. See Spot run Run Spot run,-----Really a whole generation of kids debm55 May 10 #69

The Boxcar Children PJMcK May 10 #60

Ty PJMcK I remember them. As a classroom teacher Scholastic would a lot each teacher a selection. I picked the Boxcar debm55 May 10 #68

Where the wild things are canuckledragger May 10 #61

Oh, canuckledragger. you were not a wild thing. You were a child finding his way as all children must do to grow. I am debm55 May 10 #67

The Black Stallion novels, by Walter Farley Jeebo May 10 #62

Thank you Jeebo, During my teaching days, I read the first Black Stallion to my class. I had read the series as a child. debm55 May 10 #66

It's really interesting that you did that, too. Jeebo May 11 #75

Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel Brother Buzz May 10 #72

Ty Brother Buzz, I remember getting the from the library. Have a great day. debm55 May 13 #140

I read Grimm's and Andersen's fairy tales ailsagirl May 10 #74

TY ailsagirl; Great choices. debm55 May 11 #97

I have 3 I_UndergroundPanther May 11 #76

The Silent Miaow is one of the best books ever. 3catwoman3 May 11 #81

Ty 2catwoman3 wonderful post. debm55 May 11 #90

TY I_UndergroundPanther. Freat choices. My 6th grade class had the Phantom Tollbooth as in a play version in their debm55 May 11 #91

The World Book Encyclopedia jmowreader May 11 #77

TY jmowreader. We had the Encyclopedia you would buy weakly at the A&P they were full of pictures. Question for you -- debm55 May 11 #89

Before I graduated from high school I wanted to be an electrical engineer jmowreader May 11 #107

Thank you jmomreader, debm55 May 11 #116

Even perhaps before or concurrent w Dr Suess: Harold and The Purple Crayon! electric_blue68 May 11 #80

Did you notice you could look at the illustrations for the Dick and Jane books. As the series went along, there was less debm55 May 11 #88

debm55..... Upthevibe May 11 #82

Thank you Upthevibe. I liked it but it was sad for me at the end. debm55 May 11 #87

Paddle to the Sea MIGuy May 11 #83

Thank you MIGuy. I remember the illustrations of books I read also. And they do help with understanding. debm55 May 11 #86

Little House on the Prairie Tree Lady May 11 #84

Thank you Tree Lady., debm55 May 11 #85

Ferdinand (the Bull) justaprogressive May 11 #92

I read that too, Agree with you. TY justaprogressive. debm55 May 11 #95

Black Beauty. elleng May 11 #101

Thank you elleng A classic debm55 May 11 #117

The Enormous Egg Mz Pip May 11 #103

Ty Mz Pip debm55 May 11 #121

Jerry Todd books...had the whole set including the Poppy Ott books... MiHale May 11 #106

TY MiHale. They must have been really good to reread. I still read "All Creatures Great and Small" series. debm55 May 11 #119

The first fave book I can recall is Alliepoo May 11 #108

Ty Alliepoo. Very interesting. debm55 May 11 #114

Wind in the Willows... malthaussen May 11 #109

Ty malthaussen . I always loved watercolor illlustrations. Very subtle. debm55 May 11 #115

The Wump World, by Bill Peet. (But I think the Veleveteen Rabbit was the first petronius May 11 #111

TY petrpnius. I agree. debm55 May 11 #113

"At the far edge of town where the grickle-grass grows, Aristus May 11 #124

TY Aristus, Beautiful debm55 May 11 #125

I had LOTS of them RazorbackExpat May 12 #126

Welcome to DU! TomSlick May 12 #128

I also remember the 'Game of the Century" RazorbackExpat May 12 #129

I was present for the Miracle on Markham. TomSlick May 12 #130

Another 1 - point game RazorbackExpat May 12 #131

I like your screen name RazorbackExpat May 13 #133

I have been called Tom Slick for years - at least since the time of Slick Willie. TomSlick May 13 #141

The Phantom Tollbooth. nt Laffy Kat May 12 #132

From my elementary school library, "The Black Stone Knife" dameatball May 13 #134

Thank you dameatball. The book sounds interesting. debm55 May 13 #137

Harold and The Purple Crayon! Dr Suess's Happy Birthday to You book! electric_blue68 May 13 #135

TY electric_blue68 alot of classic there. debm55 May 13 #136

'The Hardy Boys', 'The Three Investigators', and 'Tom Swift'. OldBaldy1701E May 13 #138

Ty OldBaldy1701E You have a great selection of books that you read. debm55 May 13 #139