What childrens' books did you grow up with?

[Deja Q]

Here's one.



The edition given to me is blue, and has a picture of Randolph himself. And he looks like a nasty little bugger too... art circa 1942.

What books did you grow up with?

[JVS]

1. Tootle the hardcore track jumping motherfucking train!

[TZ]

2. heres one I think many will share..

I think I can...I think I can..I think I can...

[Deja Q]

3. I say the same thing when approaching people to date.

If there was a form of Viagra that helped dating, rather than the ultimate reason for dating, it'd be of help...

But until then, there's Adderall. :D

[TZ]

4. I have my own prescription for that problem

a shot of tequila! :evilgrin:

[peekaloo]

5. Childcraft series.

wide variety of topics including poems,fairy tales, short stories, family life and some of the most mesmerizing illustrations/art from the 40's and 50's,I believe. I'll also note they were published before I was born. :-)

[mzteris]

7. I read that set

- I don't know how many times!

Mythology was my favorite, though.

[Nikia]

6. Doctor Seuss and Sweet Pickles books

I had other books too, but those are the popular series that I most remembered that we had at home.

[PassingFair]

8. Some classics:

(from "The Man Who Lost His Head")

I remember all of these from the library of my grade school.
They were classics when I was a child, and my own children
LOVED them as well.

I can even now remember sitting cross-legged on the cool floor
of the school library as they were read to me by a librarian
who cared.

I also remember this, from around 2nd grade:

[skygazer]

9. Mr. Popper's Penguins was a great book!

My dad introduced me to The Peterkin Papers which was a book from his childhood. Written around the turn of the century, its about a family named Peterkin who must have been the stupidest family on the face of the earth. They were forever getting into very funny situations and only the advice of the Lady From Philadelphia could untangle them.

This is the illustration from the story of how Mrs. Peterkin accidentally put salt in her coffee and the entire family put their collective heads together to figure our how to resolve it.

[PassingFair]

10. I'll have to check that out....it sounds ....Dickensian! n/t

[Rosemary2205]

11. The 1st I remember is "Dick, Jane and Spot" books.

sometime after that it was Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie

There's a lot of my childhood I don't remember - it was a bit traumatic.

[GenDem]

12. Nancy Drew Mystery series

My girlfriend and I would each read a different book and then swap.

[yellowdogintexas]

23. yeah, the real original ones from the thirties.....those were great

I plowed through them in the Public Library in 4th, 5th and 6th grads.

[femmocrat]

13. Black Beauty. The Wild Stallion series. Heidi.

The Weekly Reader Book Club, lots of fairy tales (Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen). I was always reading.

[Va Lefty]

14. Where The Wild Things Are

[fizzgig]

15. only one of the best books ever

i wish i could find my copy :(

[cynatnite]

36. I read that all the time as a kid...

got it for all my kids. My son loves it. The girls shrugged their shoulders and played with their barbie dolls instead. Go figure.

[Skittles]

16. Enid Blyton - I think all folk my age in England did

yes INDEED
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton

[Norrin Radd]

17. The Wump World

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wump_World

[Seashell Eyes]

42. I remember that book.

It was clever that the aliens that take over were called the Pollutians. I liked the hopeful ending when the wump saw a plant growing out of the debris.

[RetroLounge]

18. Many

Dr. Seuss' entire canon.

and my favorite, p.d. eastman - Go Dog Go...

RL

[KitchenWitch]

34. Stop Dogs Stop, the light is red now!

:7

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Felix Salten's "Bambi" was my fave...

The Mouse and the Motorcycle, several fairy tale compilations (which had pretty grimm content!) and Little Women. Oh, and old books my dad had...a children's almanac, a book about birds, and a couple of books that told about various dog breeds. I loved them all!

[madrchsod]

20. old school baby.....

dick and jane....

[Wapsie B]

21. Dr. Seuss and the Little Golden Books.

I still love Green Eggs & Ham.

[Seabiscuit]

31. We must have grown up in the same era.

[BarenakedLady]

22. Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka

Where The Wild Things Are



Millicent The Monster





So many many books. My parents loved to read.

[yellowdogintexas]

24. Original Bobbsey Twins, got my first set in First Grade.

my little kid books were the Disney Uncle Remus, a fabulous concoction called "The Bumper Book" which had all kinds of poems and little stories,a really cool Mother Goose Book and the old original Childcraft ..my sister took ours for her daughter and when mine was about 6 I found a set just like them at Half PRice for $3 per book and snatched them to get the first 7 volumes. My daughter loved them too.

I had some Dr Seuss, a subscription to the Uncle Scrooge Comics, Jack and Jill Magazine, Children's Digest.

Oh yeah, I read Louisa May Alcott, Kipling's Just So Stories, both the Golden Book versions and the more mature versions later, Tom Sawyer, and The Five Little Peppers & How They Grew ( a really OLD Book)

my mother told me that when I was a baby and wouldn't sleep she read to me from whatever SHE was reading, magazines, novels, etc, so no telling what was actually read to me!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

25. Nancy Drew, Mary Poppins, Heidi (there are two sequels),

horse stories, The Princess and the Goblin, a dog story called Beautiful Joe, the Anne of Green Gables series, The All-of-a-Kind Family, Betsy-Tacy, Elizabeth Foreman Lewis's books about China, such as Ho-ming, Girl of China and Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze.

[Thirtieschild]

26. Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Heidi, Albert PaysonTerhune Lad etc.,, Mother West Wind

[Seashell Eyes]

27. Roald Dahl

He was the best. I was never into cutesy stories as a child and I like that his stories were a little twisted. Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, the BFG, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More.

[u4ic]

28. Billy and Blaze, Nancy Drew, Curious George,

King of the Wind, biographies of Man O'War and Black Gold, The Mysterious Monsters..




I'll never forget the one where Blaze was stolen by gypsies. :eyes:





:D

[Radio_Lady]

29. Black Beauty was the one I liked the best!

[txwhitedove]

30. Rootie Kazootie was my first favorite....

[Chan790]

32. Dr. Seuss.

However, I'm raising my (future) kids on a steady book diet of Everybody Poops, the unabridged Brothers Grimm Fairytales, and It by Stephen King.

[NMDemDist2]

33. I read all of the Oz series

I learned to read with Dr. Seuss

I was a voracious reader (still am, but mostly at DU these days) so I read lots and lots

the Black Stallion series was a biggie too, I loved those stories

[Bjornsdotter]

35. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils

...was my favorite. I used to daydream about riding on the back of a goose. I even have a cross-stitch picture of Nils and a Nils figurine on a goose hanging in my house.

Cheers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Adventures_of_Nils

[FloridaJudy]

37. Classic Seuss

Here's one:



And another:

[yewberry]

38. Ooh, kid books.

How about






One great thing about working with kids is that I've been able to read so many old classics!

[FloridaJudy]

39. A classic to give you nightmares

Struwwelpeter ("slovenly Peter")



A bizarre German children's book from about 1850 or so, written by a doctor who was a 'medical man of the lunatic asylum'. Cautionary tales of children with bad habits who come to various gruesome ends: imagine Edward Gorey without the sly humor. No wonder the generation of Germans born in the early 20th century were so effed up.

For a sample tale:
http://www.fln.vcu.edu/struwwel/daumen_e.html

[Bullwinkle925]

40. These . . .

The 1949 Edition of Childcraft Books


I would spend hours pouring over them.

[yellowdogintexas]

45. I had the 1954 set, the first 7 books were solid gold.

see my post above.

Did I see your sister is coming out there while Mr DBTBK is away? I'm jealous, but I get to see my sisters in October! You two have fun!

[MissMarple]

41. Too many to list, babycakes. Although,..I did read...

Hiawatha in fourth grade, truth to tell.

[Giant Robot]

43. Oh so much Dr. Seuss

My fav was The Lorax. That was the first book I can remember reading on my own.

A little later on I got in The Three Investigators and Encyclopedia Brown. I'm guessing I read them all at the time. Anyone else remember them?

[cwydro]

44. My favorite

was A. A. Milne. All of his. I still love them.

"You must never go down to the end of town without consulting me."

[hippywife]

46. Make Way for Ducklings,

Blueberries for Sal, and all the Henry Huggins books.