This is the thread where we find a children's book that everyone has read.

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yeah, th lion the witch etc is in the narnia series.

was there a scary dramatised bbc version of it btw? or did i have a vivid imagination for cheap sets?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 21:49 (twenty years ago) link

Man I loved that Chinese Brothers story. The illustrations, too.
I think I read The Westing Game, but also cannot remember what it was about.

Has The Little Engine that Could been mentioned yet?
Ramona Quimby books?

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 21:50 (twenty years ago) link

My God, I've read almost ALL of these!

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

I loved Trixie Belden!

Blueberries for Sal - I read that one just the other day.

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago) link

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew stories were great to read under the covers with a flashlight

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago) link

Is Misty of Chincoteague known outside the U.S.?

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 8 January 2004 00:40 (twenty years ago) link

Wow I thought no one else but me had read Tikki Tikki Tembo! I tell people about it and they look at me like I'm mad.

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

Sadly...

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:26 (twenty years ago) link

Is Misty of Chincoteague known outside the U.S.?

I liked Stormy more, I admit. Danger and doom!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:54 (twenty years ago) link

i had a record with Tikki Tikki Tembo ... he's the chinese kid who became retarded after he fell into a well, right?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

has anyone else read "noisy nora"? it was my favorite book when i was three. the illustrations were great, i think that they were mice. or maybe rabbits. anyone?

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 8 January 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago) link

I was given Noisy Nora and remember being insulted - I thought my parents were drawing a parallel. Now I love it, especially the line

"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

Nancy Drew mysteries were great. I also loved Little Women.

― Gale, Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:44 (twenty years ago) link

t\'\'t - are there any equivalen finnish folk tales tho, that read similar to the grimm-style ones?

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

Erk for Finnish read Estonian, sorry hehe.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 8 January 2004 02:47 (twenty years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

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

one year passes...

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

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