Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Books from My Childhood I'd Love to Revisit


A Wrinkle in Time


Half Magic by Edward Eager


Chancy and the Grand Rascal by Sid Fleischman


Henry Huggins


Homer Price



Trixie Belden Mysteries


Fun with Dick and Jane


Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars


Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine



Phyllis Whitney Mysteries


A Book of Ghost Stories from Scholastic Book Club 
(It's not this one. Wish I could remember the title. Those stories were SCARY!)


Best in Children's Books

The Red Fairy Book, The Yellow Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book.
And all the other colors.




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23 comments:

  1. Some excellent old covers there Deb. I'd like to revisit Trixie Belden one day- I can't imagine she would hold up, but you never know...

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  2. I am not sure that many of these would hold up to a reread, except for, perhaps, Wrinkle in Time and Clancy.

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  3. I feel bad that I missed out on Trixie Belden, but I guess it's never too late to give her a try!

    I still occasionally revisit childhood favorites- usually during Readathon I'll re-read a Bunnicula book. ;)

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    1. I'd like to reread Trixie and see if the magic is still there. I'm a little doubtful.

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  4. I am surprised I've only read a few of these. I read the Dick and Jane stories and I loved A Wrinkle in Time and I liked Henry Huggins (but not as much as the Ramona books). I never did read Trixie Belden though I loved Nancy Drew.

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    1. Funny, but I always loved Henry more than Ramona. I recognize that I am in the minority here.

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  5. I don't know a lot of these books, but they all seem like a lot of fun.

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  6. Homer Price made my list too! I think of it every Christmas season when we make our annual trip to Krispy Kreme to watch the doughnut machine. :D I don't know if it would hold up to a re-read strictly for myself, but I'd love to read it to my kids.

    My TTT:
    https://abibliophilesstyle.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/ttt-childhood-favorites-to-re-read/

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  7. I loved your list!! Loved it! So many familiar books. Trixie Belden and Honey - girls after my own heart. I still remember almost getting sick on Reese's Peanut Butter Cups because I was absorbed in reading Trixie Belden and the Mystery on the Mississippi. Still don't like Reese's and also still have the Trixie book. Did you ever read the Robin Kane books? I loved those. There were only about 4 or 5 of them. And...The Mystery of the Haunted Pool - such a favorite. I have a copy of that one too, as well as a bunch of other YA mysteries by Phyllis Whitney. And I hadn't thought about Miss Pickerell in years.

    I went to my teen years for my list. And loved remembering!!

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  8. Loving all the old school covers on this list!

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  9. Although I'm not familiar with a few on the list, I'm really loving the old school covers. When I did my list, it made me realize that all the covers on the books that I read have been updated/modernized.
    My TTT:
    http://logcabinlibrary.blogspot.com/2015/03/top-ten-tuesday-ten-books-from-my.html

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  10. I haven't read any of these! :( But the fairy books look really cute :)

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  11. I included Wrinkle In Time too, but you have a bunch on here that are new to me! The Fairy books look beautiful.

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  12. Some of these I am not familiar with but I loved all of the books by Cleary.

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  13. WOW! Such a cool list!! I'm familiar with these, I just forgot about most of them. A Wrinkle in Time is on my list, too.

    Michelle @ Michelle's Minions

    My TTT

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  15. Great choices - I was a Trixie Belden girll, too!

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  16. Nice list of books!! I can't believe that I never read A Wrinkle In Time as a kid. I am planning to read it this year as part of the 2015 Banned Book Reading Challenge.

    Here's a link to my TTT post for this week: http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2015/03/top-10-books-from-my-childhood-or-teen.html

    Happy reading!!

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  17. Wonderful list of books - lots of nostalgia here for me. :-)

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  18. I'm so glad to see Trixie Belden on someone's list! She was my absolute FAVE as a kid!

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  19. This is some selection you've got here, Deb, most of which I've never read. After recently reading CHARLOTTE'S WEB, I saw how much more I got out of it as an adult. Great book!

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  20. I remember a Scholastic ghost story book. There was one about someone whose face was smooth as an egg.

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  21. The Mystery of the Emerald was always my favorite Trixie Belden--I've read all three you posted. And I had an Edward Eager book on my list too!

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