Literary Memories

[Lilith]

I want to know what was your favorite (school appropriate) chapter book that either you read or was read to you while you were in school?


I loved Charlotte's Web.

[Cheyanne]

Treasure Island.. :D (Pirates) ;)

[WildIrish]

Charlotte's Web is one that I really remember being read and loving.

But one of my favorite children's books is one my mother read to me all the time. It was the story of Ferdinand, the bull who liked to sit under the cork tree and smell the flowers.

[Aqua]

Probably The Hobbit. :)

[Neige]

I absolutely loved The Secret Garden.

[1nutworld]

The Home on the Prarie series.

[dreamgurl]

The Giver, but it's more for middle schoolers I guess.....I would read it again if I could find a copy.

[fzzy]

LOL ... here's my big confession .... as much as I love writing and reading ... when I was that age, I couldn't stand it, sitting still was not something I wanted to do and interestingly ... I don't remember any teacher ever doing that in a class I took ... maybe I missed out on it in one of the moves from one state to another (there were a couple of those when growing up) ... so even though I love to read .. I've never read (or had read to me) almost any of those type of books (Mark Twain, Robert Stephenson, etc.) So I'm looking forward to hearing all the answers you get in this thread!

[Booger]

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh

[Lilith]

The Giver, but it's more for middle schoolers I guess.....I would read it again if I could find a copy.

There are two more books in that series. If you have not read Gathering Blue, please do.

[dreamgurl]

I have read the first two.......don't remember the names but the whole story left such an impression.....the descriptions and the ending......so enexpected for a kids book.

[BigBear57]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hearing that made me a lifelong Twain fan. I also remember Charlotte's Web fondly too though. I guess that's why I read to my kids coming along too. We still share books and portions of books we're reading. I saw a young mother in the Dr's office the other day reading to her toddler. I couldn't help but tell her how well sharing books with my two has turned out. I think it's the best time investment you can make, sharing a good book with someone. If only I could find a woman who loved to curl up with a good book and man at the same time. LOL

[lizzardbits]

OOoo i loved just about anything by Beverly Cleary (http://www.beverlycleary.com/index.html) especially the Ramona (http://www.beverlycleary.com/books/ramona_books.html) books.

and my other fav Author was Judy Blume (http://www.judyblume.com/menu-main.html) and Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (http://www.judyblume.com/tales.html)


Judy also does books for the more "mature" or adult reader....which i found interesting...Summer Sisters (http://www.judyblume.com/sisters-m.html) ...so i guess that Judy grows with you.

[jbh3]

Sounder....I can still see that dog in my mind.After reading the book our teacher showed us the movie.Great story!

[PantyFanatic]

The only two stories I recall being read as a little kid was Billy goats Gruff and a book I can’t talk about today. :( I loved the tigers turning into butter.








(I think the people that ban books are the ones with the attitude problem)

[Loulabelle]

Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce was one of my favourites.

Minnow on the Say by the same author was also fun - a good treasure hunt story.

[Lilith]

The only two stories I recall being read as a little kid was Billy goats Gruff and a book I can’t talk about today. :( I loved the tigers turning into butter.








(I think the people that ban books are the ones with the attitude problem)

I know a teacher who still reads that one. It was my favorite as a small child too PF and read to me by an African American first grade teacher.

[LixyChick]

I loved to read as a child. I was most interested in mystery series. The entire oeuvre of the Donna Parker escapades was a favorite. For some reason the author of that series escapes me.

Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" was another favorite.

As I got older I picked up on some interesting works from Edgar Allan Poe. His was more a poetry offering...but interesting none the less.

[~Da_NufNuffess~]

I absolutely loved The Secret Garden.

I have to agree with PixieSprite on this one The Secret Garden is defenatly one of my favourites, but another is " Willi Wonka and the Chocolate Factory "
I guess I am a lover on chocolote things :p

[Loulabelle]

I personally always preferred Roald Dahl's "Matilda" and "James and the Giant Peach" to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory although certainly "Matilda" displayed questionable moral values. Not sure if it's appropriate for school reading.

[BIBI]

I loved the tigers turning into butter.


LMAO.....so did I

There was a record out about the story too that I had......

I used to love "Rupert" and "Noddy" books when I was a child......they are from England.

[Oldfart]

Boy stuff, Biggles and Tarzan mainly.

[Scarecrow]

John Carter of Mars series. Also the one about butter.

[jay-t]

The Hardy Boys series,and books by Zane Gray

[Coaster]

Yep........ was Hardy Boys for me

[lizzardbits]

:( I loved the tigers turning into butter.
Put me in with the "not-so-politically-correct" group because i read that book to my youngest just the other day. I remember back when i was a kid, that i hated seeing the tigers run around in the cicus ring because i thought that they'd melt :rolleyes:

[scotzoidman]

I couldn't remember any childhood books that had a deep impact on me until reading PF's comment...that sent me running down to the basement to check out my first ever All About Story Book, given to me by my aunt for Xmas before my 5th birthday...it contains all the usual kiddie stories, Little Red Riding Hood, Peter Rabbit, etc...but the one story I remember going back to read over & over was the one about the tigers turning to butter...maybe because everybody had a big stack of pancakes at the end of the story :p
Another book I now remember was a very old copy of David Copperfield, given to me by my other aunt (who was really more like my surrogate grandmother)...at the time she gave it to me, it was really over my head, but it did instill that early appreciation for Dickens that has pretty much lasted a lifetime (so far)...

[osuche]

DOes something by Lois Lowry count? Might be too gender specific...but mom and I used to read those and laugh

In 5th grade we read David Edding's Belgariad series.

[osuche]

For older kids (I read in 6th grade) I LOVED Ivanhoe

[Lilith]

DOes something by Lois Lowry count? Might be too gender specific...but mom and I used to read those and laugh

In 5th grade we read David Edding's Belgariad series.

What did you read by Lois Lowry that made you laugh??? All the books I have read are so deep, just curious.

[Fangtasia]

Clifford ~ The big red dog
The Hungry Caterpillar

Charlottes Web....i so loved that book
Of Mice And Men ~ it was a good book too

Didnt read David Eddings at school....but love his books

ok...i'm curious...what the hell is the book about tigers turning into butter? *LOL*

[Lilith]

http://www.ishipress.com/sambo.htm

[Fangtasia]

oh...interesting story...in an odd way *L*

[Lilith]

A lot of the controversy involved the illustrations which I did not include because I wanted you to read just the story first.

http://www.abebooks.com/images/Bookstores/AlephBetBooks/alephBetBooksStoryOfLittleBlackSambo.jpg

http://www.seriesbooks.com/littleblacksambotellatale02.jpg

http://www.little-black-sambo.com/images/lbs.gif

http://www.fortunecity.com/bennyhills/pun/190/littleblacksambo3.jpg

http://cache.tias.com/stores/wsts/pictures/lbslgb6a.jpg

Here is the current popular version http://images.amazon.com/images/G/covers/0/80/372/028/0803720289.l.gif

[Fangtasia]

Oh i remember the Little Golden Books version lol.....i used to have that one *LOL*any wonder it was vaguely (and i mean really vaguely) familiar......but i remember the cover vividly

[Oldfart]

I remembered the Little Golden Book cover.

Racist? Bullshit!

[BIBI]

I even had a gollywog when I was a kid...

[Oldfart]

They've talked about ceasing production of black jelly babies.

Noddy was banned from some libraries because the naughty comic relief was golliwogs, taken by some as racist.

They haven't banned "Merchant of Venice" because it vilifies Jews (yet).

[Steph]

When I was 5 or 6, I was reading Thumbelina outside. I got distracted & went off to do something else. Being Newfoundland & the weather ever-changing, it started to rain & my library book was ruined. I was devastated & thought my mother & the librarian would be angry but it worked out. My mother bought a nicer copy of the book for the library and that was that. :)

I loved so many books . . . the Bobbsey (sp.) twins, moving on to Nancy Drew, Encyclopedia Brown, all the Judy Blumes, Beverly Cleary & Charlotte's Web like so many. I also read Animal Farm when I was really young & didn't fully understand it but it kickstarted me reading & writing satire for the rest of my life.

[scotzoidman]

Lil, I just recalled an episode from high school that I suppose might loosly tie in with this topic & the "LBS" thing, as well you might find of interest as a techer. In 10th grade English, the whole class was assigned reading Huck Finn (certainly a classic of American literature), couple months later our teacher told us she had just found that it had just gone on the list of forbidden books in school (mostly for the use of the "N" word), & she begged us all to not mention to ANYBODY that she had assigned it...I had found the book fairly entertaining, & while I can understand how some might find it offensive, I thought the book was the OPPOSITE of racist (the boys were befriending a slave & helping him escape, after all), & Twain was just using the authentic language that would have been used by a Missouri boy in the 1800's...

[osuche]

What did you read by Lois Lowry that made you laugh??? All the books I have read are so deep, just curious.


The Anastasia series in particular...and I think they now have a series for Anastasia's little brother that's more targeted to boys.

http://www.loislowry.com/books.html

[jseal]

When books are burned (banned) in the end people will be burned too.

Heinrich Heine
German critic & poet (1797 - 1856)

[maddy]

Not so much a chapter book, but I enjoyed the Shel Silverstein books - Where the Sidewalk Ends ... and the other one, the name escapes me at the moment.

[Lilith]

Thanks osuche! I had only read the last ones on that list and am surprised to see she wrote so very different.

[musicman]

cue for treason (grade 6)