Memories from my childhood. Books I used to read.

MagnusTheBuilder · Post by **MagnusTheBuilder** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:49 pm

Sweet nostalgia:

Does anyone else remember these books? This was a real cover, it didn't have that title but the picture is real, I remember it.

Sisyphus · Post by **Sisyphus** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:55 pm

No. But after Red Fish, Blue Fish and any of his inane nonsensical rhymes about a thousand times now I'd swing a boot at ole' Dr Seuss myself.

UndertheGun · Post by **UndertheGun** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 9:42 pm

I remember reading Berenstein Bears. Then I remember mom deciding that they were sexist because they portrayed exploitative gender heirarchy or something. Not something I quite got at 6 years old.
Don't recall reading the dick kicking one for some reason.

xaos · Post by **xaos** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:03 am

The Spooky Old Tree, also a Berenstien Bears book, was my fave as a youngster

now i wanna rererereread it. maybe ill stop by borders after work

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:00 am

Here's one -- is anybody else really nervous about the upcoming "Where the Wild Things Are" movie?

I love that book. Still thinking of getting a Max tattoo... but I'm terrified they're going to co-opt what was a simple and beautiful kid's book into something cheap and shitty... then again, my own personal dreams have been co-opted into something cheap and shitty, so perhaps it's just art imitating life.

Hrm.

Anyway. Bernstein Bears kick... er, ass. Yeah.

--Jaeger

MoraleHazard · Post by **MoraleHazard** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:15 am

I loved Where the Wild Things Are. My mom and dad always got me a lot of science / nature / astronomy books as well as the Big Trucks for Boys or some such thing. Fire engines, semis, etc.

Also, this one:

which is real, under the George Washington bridge in NYC:

Post by **DerGolgo** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:54 am

I feel that a lot of my worldview was shaped by the works of Richard Scarry.

Also, best name for a children's book author, ever.

Metalredneck · Post by **Metalredneck** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:23 pm

My kids grew up on Robert Munsch:
<a href="" title="zoom by redneckfri13, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2508/397 ... d317_o.jpg" width="200" height="247" alt="zoom" /></a>
If the wild things movie sucks, there may be open revolt.

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:40 pm

Aside from The Hobbit, The Lord of The Rings and the Narnia Chronicles, one book stood above the others.

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I memorized every single word of it.

I have a copy and recently have begun reading it to my kids, now that they have an attention span and vocabulary that can take a story without tons of illustrations.

Rench · Post by **Rench** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:25 pm

Yertle the Turtle remains a seminal force in my life. I WILL be getting a Mack tatoo.

-Rench

guitargeek · Post by **guitargeek** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 2:54 pm

I LOVED Where the Wild Things Are! So much so that all the other lame ass children's books I'd read up to that point just kind of blur together into one lame ass mess of "the farmer drives a tractor, the fireman drives a red truck, see spot run". Where the Wild Things Are engendered in me an appreciation of big, shaggy, scary looking things.

The first book I read that didn't have any pictures was The Iceberg Hermit. That one was really influential on me, and I still think of it when I find myself in a jam...

mtne · Post by **mtne** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:32 pm

Harold and the Purple Crayon

dozer · Post by **dozer** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:32 pm

Always loved Dr.Seuss, Roald Dahl too...

Groove · Post by **Groove** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:42 pm

DerGolgo wrote:I feel that a lot of my worldview was shaped by the works of Richard Scarry.

Also, best name for a children's book author, ever.

Oh hell yeah! That brings back some memories!!!

Groove · Post by **Groove** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 4:46 pm

piccini9 · Post by **piccini9** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:04 pm

I think my Grandmother had this at her house. Many years later, after she died, I had a little magazine rack of hers in my bathroom. One day a friend of mine came out of the bathroom with it, saying what a cool little book it was. I jumped at the sight of it, "I had that same book when I was a kid, where did you find that?"
She calmly explained that she found it in the magazine rack. Didn't even know it was in my house.

I've since lost it again.

erosvamp · Post by **erosvamp** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:10 pm

two books immediately come to mind:

My Side of the Mountain and The Little Prince

Other than those... I remember hiding in the basement reading my grandmother's Harlequin Romance books.

calamari kid · Post by **calamari kid** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 8:28 pm

I was a fiend for books as a kid, Richard Scarry, the good Dr., etc. Two of the earliest I remember are Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, and one about a little house in the country which becomes surrounded by the city and very depressed, then gets moved back out to the country again.

Jaeger wrote:Here's one -- is anybody else really nervous about the upcoming "Where the Wild Things Are" movie?

I love that book. Still thinking of getting a Max tattoo... but I'm terrified they're going to co-opt what was a simple and beautiful kid's book into something cheap and shitty... then again, my own personal dreams have been co-opted into something cheap and shitty, so perhaps it's just art imitating life.

Hrm.

Anyway. Bernstein Bears kick... er, ass. Yeah.

--Jaeger

I too am concerned about how this is going to come out. Pleasepleaseplease don't let it suck. Some years ago they put up a ballet version here in Seattle. My mom got to work on the masks and met Maurice Sendak.

UndertheGun · Post by **UndertheGun** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:27 pm

I really hope they don't fuck WTWTA up, because i'm going to see it regardless.

My favorite book was, before i graduated to Calvin & Hobbes, this:

Pancake · Post by **Pancake** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 6:34 am

Metalredneck wrote:My kids grew up on Robert Munsch:
<a href="" title="zoom by redneckfri13, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2508/397 ... d317_o.jpg" width="200" height="247" alt="zoom" /></a>
If the wild things movie sucks, there may be open revolt.

My favorite Robert Munsch book is this one:

Good Canadians don't fart!

Rabbit_Fighter · Post by **Rabbit_Fighter** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:02 am

We already got a copy of this one for my son.

Groove · Post by **Groove** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 8:37 am

mtne wrote:Harold and the Purple Crayon

Great book! My Mother just bought a new copy for my Son. She has an original from the 50s or 60s at home.

Post by **DerGolgo** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:36 am

Rabbit_Fighter wrote:We already got a copy of this one for my son.

Oh heck, when I was about five years old I coveted that crocodile car!

Sisyphus · Post by **Sisyphus** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 11:42 am

UndertheGun wrote:My favorite book was, before i graduated to Calvin & Hobbes, this:

I love reading this with a Maine accent to my older son. Makes it that much funnier.

I only hope he doesn't pick up that accent (shudders).

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Memories from my childhood. Books I used to read.

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