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
― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
?????????????????
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
and another
his mother called him “WILD THING!” and max said “I’LL EAT YOU UP”
so he was sent to bed without eating anything.
That very night in Max’s room a forest grew... and grew...
and grew until the ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around
and an ocean tumbled by with a private boat for Max
and he sailed off through night and day, in and out of weeks and almost over a year
to where the wild things are.
And when he came to the place where the wild things are,
they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth,
rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws
till Max said “BE STILL” and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow
eyes without blinking once
and they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all
and made him king of all the wild things...
“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”
“Now stop!” said Max and sent the wild things off to bed without their supper
and Max, the king of all the wild things was lonely
and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.
Then all around from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat,
so gave up being king of where the wild things are
But the wild things cried “Oh please don’t go, we’ll eat you up, we love you so”
and Max said “NO.”
The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth, rolled their terrible
eyes and showed their terrible claws, but Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye
and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day
and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him...
and it was still hot.
Now you've read Where the Wild Things Are, you nutballs.
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― ModJ (ModJ), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:17 (twenty years ago) link
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 17:18 (twenty 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