As a child, what was you favorite book that you read? Mine was Mary Poppins. What was yours?

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84. So many possibilities.

My mom was the oldest of 4 - 3 girls, then a boy. The book was given to her when she was about 10, in 1932+/-, and was purchased at a Dayton's department store somewhere in Minnesota, based on a teeny tiny sticker on one of the front pages. She and both her sisters read the book many, many times, and some of the pages have seriously tattered edges, and others are tear-stained from where they all cried over some of the sad parts of the story - or so I was told.

My grandmother had the book re-bound for me in 1963, at the Hutchinson (MN) Maplewood Book Bindery - that is noted in ink, in her handwriting about 3 pages in, under mother's name and street address written in pencil, probably in my mother's somewhat childish hand.

The book has 12 illustrations, including the one on the cover. The artist was a C M Burd - Clara Miller Burd, born in 1873. The cover and 3 of the others illustrations are in color. One B&W illustration page is missing -according to the list of illustrations, there is supposed to be one on page 230, but there isn't. Page 230 is present, but is all print, no picture. She did the illustrations for Little Women in 1925. She also did work in stained glass, and for a time worked for Louis Tiffany of the famous Tiffany lamps.

This book will soon be 100 years old. I consider it a family treasure. An antiques seller on Etsy is offering this same edition for $140.00.

I also loved Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle In Time. I always thought it would make a great movie, and I know 2 versions have been made. I've not seen either of them, as my mind has created such vivid images of all the characters that I'm quite sure I would be disappointed in the movies. I know the 2018 version shows the 3 old ladies as looking rather glamorous, which they definitely do not in the book, and the Murray family was cast as biracial, which makes it impossible for Mrs. Murray to have the flaming red hair and violet eyes that L'Engle so often refers to in the book.