― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago) link
The BFG?
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:50 (twenty years ago) link
What about Peter Pan?
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
Thomas the tank engine. by w h auden or somesuch.
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:53 (twenty years ago) link
I do hope the result doesn't look like this...
http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/aqkorhon/hermanni3.jpg
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:58 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.lbscr.demon.co.uk/photos/Remembrance-333.jpg
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
Swallows & Amazons?
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link
fuckin hell! thank you MarkH! That one's been bothering me for far too long.
― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link
sarcasm doesn't become you, dog latin.
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link
Haven't read the tripods or swallows and amazons (probably the boy/girl divide again)
― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:34 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link
Really? Dude! They were great: each of them focused on a particular character (my fave was Mr. Messy) and how they interacted with the other Men over the entire story. (There were Misses, too). [They sort of look like the annoying Teletubbies without the antennas]
If grimms fairy tales are a non-runner too I think we should admit defeat, or at least break it down into countries.
Vicky, you give up that easy? I know EXACTLY what the Grimms Tales are. (Just found my old copy in my garage, the other day: blue vinyl cover.) My fave story from that was "Snow White and Rose Red".
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:55 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
― (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
Isn't that the story with Badger and Mole, if I remember right?
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
Nichole it's about the ickle wabbits that all die. *sniff*
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago) link
x-post
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:08 (twenty years ago) link
I'm thinking by country might be a good idea, because it's occuring to me that I may have never read a childrens book set in the US.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:10 (twenty years ago) link
What happened to Winnie the Pooh? I thought it was doing O.K. but I must have missed something!?
― quincie, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
NOW you're talkin, Carey! Loved both of them, though (stuffed) Babar was easier to cuddle up to at night.
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:11 (twenty years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:12 (twenty years ago) link
I only had curious george on tape, but I think I read a friend's copy of barbar.
― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:13 (twenty years ago) link
And to answer the question up-thread, the Pippi Longstocking books were popular over here too. We're suckers for Scandinavian kid-lit.
― MikeyG (MikeyG), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:39 (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