Bagthorpe Saga, anyone? Three Investigators/Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew/Bobbsey Twins/Trixie Belden? The Witch Mountain books? _Make Way For Ducklings_? _Blueberries For Sal_?
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:29 (twenty years ago) link
Blueberries for Sal - I read that one just the other day.
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
Having read this whole thread I still refuse to believe a classic folk tale can have gone unread by all. Eg: sleeping beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel, etc.
Surely?
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago) link
I liked Stormy more, I admit. Danger and doom!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link
"we've lost her", moaned her Mother as they sorted through the trash/ "BUT I'm back again!" said Norah with a monumental crash
― isadora (isadora), Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Gale, Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:44 (twenty years ago) link
I have a great book by Italo Calvino where he collected all these Italian oral folk tales passed down the ages around fires and what have you. Some really funny, witty little proverbs. Fabulous book, full of spells and death and travels and marriages and theft... and farting.
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:47 (twenty years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-westing-game-a-tribute-to-labor-that-became-a-dark-comedy-of-american-capitalism
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 June 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
i love The Westing Game.
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
I never read those Wimpy Kid books (too old) and my kids didn't read them, either. I honestly probably resented the idea of books designed for kids that don't like the read; I volunteered for years in the elementary school library, and I noticed that the kids that read those books *only* read those books. But my nephew wrote a fan letter to Jeff Kinney *four years ago,* and he actually, finally just now wrote him back! It's a long letter, too!
Four years ago my son, aged 7, wrote a letter to his favourite author, Jeff Kinney @wimpykid . We mailed it off and he checked the mailbox every day, hoping for a reply. He's must get a lot of fan mail, I said.Eventually my son stopped checking.Yesterday, look what arrived?😲 pic.twitter.com/rwuWRAOCaU— Dr Eleanor Limprecht (@TheNeedtoRead) June 7, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 June 2021 12:15 (two years ago) link