Which books from your childhood have you never forgotten ?
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Nemo2
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A copy of "Penthouse" I found at a friend's house when I was around 9. His father thought he hid it well enough.
What was the story you read? Let me guess. “Penthouse After Dark?”My friend & I studied it thoroughly....for educational purposes, of course.
You’ll love the ending.
NorthernLight
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I've been wracking my brains. I have memories "about" books (e.g., the condition of the cover, or who gave it to me), but no story stands out. Even though I read a lot.
Bellbird
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I always remember Enid Blyton's books, always my favourites, in fact I never read anything else.
CarolfromTX
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The Black Stallion series, by Walter Farley. Also read the Lord of the Rings in high school.
The Box Car Childrenin college, required course for elementary education was kiddie lit... or, or formally, children's literature. we had to read all the prize winning children's books... caldecott for pictures, newberry for story. one of my favrites was
from the mixed up filed of mrs basil e frankweiler.
Magna-Carta
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The one that always springs to mind for me is Charlotte's Web by Elwyn Brooks White
Repondering
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I reread it many times.
Treasure Island.
Oliver Twist.
I was also a fan of Enid Blyton's books. The River of Adventure, The Ship of Adventure, The Castle of Adventure....and more in that series. I loved them!
Treasure Island.
Oliver Twist.
I was also a fan of Enid Blyton's books. The River of Adventure, The Ship of Adventure, The Castle of Adventure....and more in that series. I loved them!
RadishRose
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I had so many Golden Books. Also The Bobbsey Twins...which were pretty lame even then. Trixie Belden but never Nancy Drew. All the Disney and Grimm Bros. stuff. I loved my over sized Cinderella book.
Aunt Mavis
I have met the enemy and he is us. Pogo
James and the Giant Peach.
Lilac
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C. W. Anderson "Complete Book of Horses & Horsemanship", Sam Savitt "Wild Horse Running" & Marguerite Henry "Black Gold"
Which books from your childhood have you never forgotten ?
Yup
This one has stuck with me since I was 3
Farrah Nuff
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Many books by Dr Seuss
ElCastor
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The OZ books, which my Grandmother read to me. She was a fine woman.
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My aunt was an artist, and had several Jules Feiffer books. That's where I found "Munro". The story of a 4 year old boy who finds himself accidentally drafted into the Army. The military won't admit its mistake and refuses to discharge him.
Screenwriter Feiffer, who adapted his own story from his book "Passionella and Other Stories", and provided the storyboards, said the tale was a reaction to his time serving in the US Army.
"I came up with the story of Munro because I understood that if you're really in a rage and really want to attack someone in cartoon form, the least effective way is to jump up and down and scream and yell and to be polemical—something a lot of cartoonists have never learned. The best way is to go in the other direction and feign innocence, and bring the reader along in a quiet way. And so Munro tells this savage story but tells it entertainingly and sweetly and builds it up and gets the reader stressed, and as you read it, and particularly when you see the film, you feel your stomach knot up because of the obvious abuse and ignorance of authority. And people connected to their own situations with authority in or out of the Army when no one listens, no one believes you. They know, you don't, and they may even start to convince you, as they do Munro, that they're right and you're wrong."
Feiffer's "Passionella" is a story of Cinderella gone Hollywood, a chimney sweep is transformed into a sexpot. Other stories depict a despondent neurotic who solves romantic problems by inventing a compliant robot, a self-absorbed man who has the entire moon to himself, and the world's greatest athlete, scorned for shunning competition...all done in Feiffer's sketchy, economical cartoon style. An illustrated fable about a village jester searching for his serious side and several one-act plays fill out the volume. In these trenchant pieces, the era's anxieties...conformity, male insecurity, troubled relationships...don't seem a half century old.
Of course, as a child, I can't say that I picked up on political or other satire, but I liked the stories and illustrations. I still enjoy Feiffers' work to this day.
"Munro" is a 1960 Czechoslovak-American animated short film directed by Gene Deitch, written by Jules Feiffer, and produced William L. Snyder. "Munro" won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. It was the first short film composed outside of the United States to be so honored. The Academy Film Archive preserved "Munro" in 2004.
Do my superhero comic books count? Daredevil, Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, Thor, Silver Surfer, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Justice League, X-Men. What can I say? I like men in tights.
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Screenwriter Feiffer, who adapted his own story from his book "Passionella and Other Stories", and provided the storyboards, said the tale was a reaction to his time serving in the US Army.
"I came up with the story of Munro because I understood that if you're really in a rage and really want to attack someone in cartoon form, the least effective way is to jump up and down and scream and yell and to be polemical—something a lot of cartoonists have never learned. The best way is to go in the other direction and feign innocence, and bring the reader along in a quiet way. And so Munro tells this savage story but tells it entertainingly and sweetly and builds it up and gets the reader stressed, and as you read it, and particularly when you see the film, you feel your stomach knot up because of the obvious abuse and ignorance of authority. And people connected to their own situations with authority in or out of the Army when no one listens, no one believes you. They know, you don't, and they may even start to convince you, as they do Munro, that they're right and you're wrong."
Feiffer's "Passionella" is a story of Cinderella gone Hollywood, a chimney sweep is transformed into a sexpot. Other stories depict a despondent neurotic who solves romantic problems by inventing a compliant robot, a self-absorbed man who has the entire moon to himself, and the world's greatest athlete, scorned for shunning competition...all done in Feiffer's sketchy, economical cartoon style. An illustrated fable about a village jester searching for his serious side and several one-act plays fill out the volume. In these trenchant pieces, the era's anxieties...conformity, male insecurity, troubled relationships...don't seem a half century old.
Of course, as a child, I can't say that I picked up on political or other satire, but I liked the stories and illustrations. I still enjoy Feiffers' work to this day.
"Munro" is a 1960 Czechoslovak-American animated short film directed by Gene Deitch, written by Jules Feiffer, and produced William L. Snyder. "Munro" won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. It was the first short film composed outside of the United States to be so honored. The Academy Film Archive preserved "Munro" in 2004.
Do my superhero comic books count? Daredevil, Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, Thor, Silver Surfer, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Justice League, X-Men. What can I say? I like men in tights.
Bella
Nemo2
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I recall a Feiffer cartoon from many yesteryears:
Two adjacent vertical columns, the gist of which is/are:
- On the left a guy is talking about a new girlfriend.......wines/dines takes her to increasingly more expensive dates, until the last box where he's spent his money and asks if they could just go to the movies.....she dumps him.
- Right hand column, also new girlfriend......takes her for a walk the first date, window shopping the next, etc, etc, without spending a cent. Last box he suggests the movies, "Boy, was she ever grateful!"
Two adjacent vertical columns, the gist of which is/are:
- On the left a guy is talking about a new girlfriend.......wines/dines takes her to increasingly more expensive dates, until the last box where he's spent his money and asks if they could just go to the movies.....she dumps him.
- Right hand column, also new girlfriend......takes her for a walk the first date, window shopping the next, etc, etc, without spending a cent. Last box he suggests the movies, "Boy, was she ever grateful!"
BlueVilla
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I love this question and it's easy to answer:
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Oh--and I can't forget my beloved Nancy Drew and Little Golden Books!
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Oh--and I can't forget my beloved Nancy Drew and Little Golden Books!
Marie5656
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I loved the Trixie Belden series of books
when i was in maybe 3-4th grade ha a teacher who wold rea to us. we'd come back inside after lunch and recess, and she would turn the lights off, we would lay our leads down on our desks and she would read a chpter or so from a book. that was my first exxperience with Laura Ingalls Wilder... Little House on the Prairie series. i wanted to live that way!
then there were The Box Car Children books. never wanted to run away, but loved the idea of how they lived.
then there were The Box Car Children books. never wanted to run away, but loved the idea of how they lived.