Books from your childhood

You mean the mail works there?   

That would be fabulous. I'm totally serious (or, in the parlance of the 80s, that would be like, totally awesome)!. 

No but that reminds me about Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann - another teen pass around.

Hey Dollface was a teen book that talked about lesbianism - it was really well-written as I remember.

Valley of the Dolls - never read that one.  Read another one by her, but can't remember right now which one it was...

I loved the Wizard of Oz books, The Chronicles of Narnia, anything by Madeleine L'Engle, Ramona the Pest, Judy Blume, Bunnicula, Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, The Five Investigators, ad nauseum.
I read all the Newberry award winners and even started to read all the books in my school library starting at A.  Then I got sucked into the vortex of teen romances and didn't see the literary light till the end of high school.  Those things are as bad as crack for some girls.  I can't stomach anything that reads similarly to them now.

Oh yes - can't forget Nancy Drew.

Still have my old Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys books...also have a Nancy Drew cookbook which is FAB!

I had the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie book set and read them a few times. I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I read so much when I was growing up I couldn't even begin to list all of the ones I loved. The first books I remember were the Dr. Seuss books..Go Dog Go being my fav.....and we had some books that had 45 rpm records with them and when you heard the beep you knew to turn the page. I couldn't read yet but I'd follow along by the beeps and the pictures.

Well, if yer gonna mention 45rpms, then I HAVE to add... my 2 Danny Kaye records that I absolutely cherished, and wish I had them now.  The Hans Christain Andersen soundtrack, and another one that was just full of songs, and storytelling.  Love, love, love Danny Kaye.
(anyone remember The Court Jester?)

Love, love, love Danny Kaye.
(anyone remember The Court Jester?)

The vessel with the pessel holds the pellet with the poison!

The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!!

I LOVE Danny Kaye...did you see Birth of the Blues?

No, and I just discovered another movie I'd never heard of called Wonder Man...?  Apparently although I worship him - and aspire to be the female version of him - I've hardly seen a fraction of his work!

Oh yes! I remember my set of Laura Ingalls Wilder books. I may still have them packed away somewhere. I also remember reading the V.C. Andrews "Flowers in the Attic" books. My mom has a First edition "Little Women". I wish I had it! I remember she let me read it when I was very young. Also loved "Charlottes Web". I remember a cute book called "One Fat Summer" about a fat kid that mows lawns all summer and gets thin. Anyone read that one?

We should start a Book of the Month club on here and then all meet in the chat room to discuss.

Oh - Oh - Oh

And Alvin's Swap Shop.  I loved that book.  And the Encyclopedia Brown series - my youngest is well into that now.

No, and I just discovered another movie I'd never heard of called Wonder Man...? Apparently although I worship him - and aspire to be the female version of him - I've hardly seen a fraction of his work!

Wonder Man is very, very cute, especially the ending.  See Birth of the Blues.  You must see it.  It's so sweet...another Virginia Mayo pairing.  

And the Encyclopedia Brown series - my youngest is well into that now.

My goodness!  Aren't you prodding titles from the deepest recess of my ever fading memory!

I LOVED Encyclopedia Brown!  And I also really like these books by Maud Hart Lovelace..."Betsy-Tacy," "Betsy, Tacy, and Tibb,"...there were a few of them.

Did anyone ever read "The Diamond in the Window"?  It was about this dream adventure that had ended up entrapping two children...so good! 

Wonder Man is very, very cute, especially the ending.  See Birth of the Blues.  You must see it.  It's so sweet...another Virginia Mayo pairing.  

Great, thank you, I'll check it out!

anyone remember the bobsy twins? was a family with like 3 sets of twins that did detective stuff and how about mr. poppers penguins???