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Post by Continuing Legend on Mar 11, 2010 5:24:41 GMT -5
It is very disappointing, as cookbooks go. Other than a Death Star popcorn ball and a few others, it is not very Star Wars themed, other than posing the pictures of the foods with Star Wars action figures and giving them Star Warsy names like "Boba Fettucine."
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Mar 11, 2010 8:13:58 GMT -5
But I also loved the Boxcar Children series. I knew I worshipped you for a reason I'm still waiting for my obeisances. My mom actually turned me on to the Boxcar stuff. She loved them as a kid, and I ended up doing so, too. And that's not the treehouse book (but I have read some of those to my son). This was a picture book, not meant for toddlers, but an oversized book that was as much about the detailed drawings of the treehouses than the story. I remember there was one, but I don't remember anything about it. I also remember that I talked my parents into buying me the Time-Life series that was all about myth and wizards and what-not way before I could really read it. I stared at those pictures for hours. Oh, and Mercer Meyer stuff. Everything from Wild Things, of course, to the Little Monster picture books.
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Post by siamesesin on Mar 11, 2010 11:27:47 GMT -5
I also remember that I talked my parents into buying me the Time-Life series that was all about myth and wizards and what-not way before I could really read it. I stared at those pictures for hours. There are a whole shelf of those Time-Life books at my library. Some of them are dark as heck (I always loved Tales of Terror!), but there are so many classic stories, myths, and fables in them too, in a very good basic format. I completely forgot about my piles of Golden Books, which are perfect for younger kids. I had a lot of those "collections"-there were some really neat Disney books out at the time. One set had a bunch of random facts, stories, and always had several movie write-ups. This was pre-VCR, so it was a fun way to "see" the movies again. And I forgot to recommend There's A Monster At The End Of This Book!
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Post by afriendlychicken on Mar 11, 2010 19:52:39 GMT -5
I completely forgot about my piles of Golden Books Were they the company in the 60's and 70's that produced the 2 books in one line? If so, my parents had a ton of them, although I don't remember most of the stories except Johnny Crows Garden.
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Post by jkazoolien on Mar 11, 2010 20:41:14 GMT -5
5 Books I Constantly Made my Folks and Older Siblings Read Me As a Kid: The Monster at the End of this Book Morris Goes to School The Poky Little Puppy Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree Danny and the Dinosaur
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Post by Weirdo Writer on Mar 11, 2010 23:36:49 GMT -5
Any of the Alfred Hitchcock "Three Investigators" series (various authors) Oooh, I remember those! I was also really big into Choose Your Own Adventure.
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Post by Hellcat on Mar 12, 2010 0:51:54 GMT -5
I loved the Golden Books as a child. My mother used to buy them for me every time she went to Bohack's Supermarket, at 59 cents a pop.
I don't remember if this was a Golden Book (it might have just been a tie-in with the movie), but when I was really little I loved it when my father read Dumbo to me. I loved the voices he used for the characters. He hated reading it because it was such a long book and I always seemed to want him to read to me on those days when he was exhausted after a long shift at work. But he never refused.
Great topic, Ijon. I haven't thought about those books in years. I wonder if my folks held on to them after I grew up. Maybe I should check out the basement one of these days.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Mar 12, 2010 1:40:18 GMT -5
Any of the Alfred Hitchcock "Three Investigators" series (various authors) Oooh, I remember those! I was also really big into Choose Your Own Adventure. Oh yeah, I was really into those too! Wow, this is a huge trip down memory lane... RE: The Star Wars Cookbook. Actually it doesn't matter to me if it's disappointing. It could be an entire book of blank pages for all I care, because it's called Wookiee Cookies, fer cryin' out loud!
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Mar 12, 2010 1:44:24 GMT -5
I also thought of another set of books I had as a child that I read and reread over and over again, a sort-of horror themed box set with four books by various authors. One was a book of traditional ghost stories called The Thing at the Foot of the Bed, one was an excellent British fantasy called Timothy and Two Witches, one was a delightful Edward-Gorey illustrated tale called Miss Clafooty and the Demon; and then there was another one whose title escapes me, but it had something to do with a frog and a witch and a peanut butter sandwich.
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Post by Emperor Cupcake on Mar 12, 2010 22:01:56 GMT -5
I just remembered that the previously mentioned horror box set also had a fifth book called The Witch's Egg, about a mean old witch who discovered the meaning of love (awwww) when she raised a baby bird. And I think the book about the frog and the witch might have been called The Strange Story of the Frog Who Became a Prince, and it was a sort of farcical reversal of the Frog Prince fairy tale. I remember much recitation of backwards words and the frog complaining about being an ugly human, and so forth.
Another book I liked a lot as a kid (that I think I still have on my shelves somewhere) was Safe as the Grave by Caroline Cooney. It was about a girl who is housebound by chicken pox and decides to use her down time to investigate a family mystery, namely where one of her eccentric relatives had hidden an expensive jeweled cross. I also remembered another good book which might have been called The Ghost of Miranda or maybe just Miranda. It was about a girl dealing with the drowning death of a cousin (I think). I remember something in it about a cement owl with orange marbles for eyes that was hidden in a hole in a tree, and a rose dyed blue. It was really spooky, as I recall.
I seem to be talking to myself now in this thread, but that's okay. Oh, and by the way, "Boba Fettucine." Hee hee!
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Post by inlovewithcrow on Mar 14, 2010 19:21:18 GMT -5
Comics like Peanuts were also high on my list. Books of jokes, too, the sicker the better.
I was one of those irritating kids who read before anyone noticed, so I was beyond Dr. Seuss by the time anyone noticed I was reading. The first thing I remember reading was my mother's ancient collection of Bobbsey Twins books (racist? Oy!) I was nuts, in school, for the Scholastic Book Club.
A couple science-y series were favorites. Miss Pickerell, this curmudgeonly old lady with a cow, had four great adventures before her author died. (Someone tried to write her again a decade later, but they got it all wrong.) Danny Dunn books I was mad for, just crazed over. Danny and his pals Irene (a girl who was good in science! In the 1960's! Amazing!) and Joe got into accidental science adventures of various sorts.
And I was even more nuts for Cameron's "mushroom planet" series. (in college, a buddy saw them on my shelf and said "and they wonder why we grew up to take hallucinogenic drugs", which was in fact a good point.) I could easily re-read them today.
Alice in Wonderland was another favorite. A book called "The Pink Motel."
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Post by Captain Hygiene on Mar 15, 2010 9:11:30 GMT -5
Danny Dunn books I was mad for, just crazed over. Danny and his pals Irene (a girl who was good in science! In the 1960's! Amazing!) and Joe got into accidental science adventures of various sorts. Ha, cool. I randomly found these when I was younger and loved them as well. I grew up on books decades older than myself.
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Post by Blue Raja on Apr 16, 2010 19:47:26 GMT -5
Though quite a few mentioned here were big parts of my childhood (particularly Seuss early on, and Roald Dahl later), I haven't yet seen anyone mention any of Bruce Coville's work.
The Aliens Ate My Homework series - Goblins in the Castle - Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Catcher - The Monster's Ring - My Teacher is an Alien series - The "Book Of" series...the list goes on. Man I ate that stuff up. ;D Good memories there.
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Post by siamesesin on Apr 16, 2010 23:14:31 GMT -5
Did anyone else read Sideways Stories From Wayside School?
If we're getting into older material, I was obsessed with Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell for about two years running. I read a lot of the Point Horror stuff-Christopher Pike, R.L. Stine (pre-Goosebumps), Caroline Cooney, etc.-in grade school too.
I also really liked Louisa May Alcott. I preferred the Eight Cousins books to the Little Women series, but liked her short stories too.
Scholastic Book Club-the bane of my mother's existence while I was in school. ;D
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Post by Mighty Jack on Apr 17, 2010 0:15:13 GMT -5
One of my early favorites I can't even remember the title. It had a robot falling through space on the cover (I believe it was a bot), it fell to Earth through a rift in time and space.
I was a voracious reader and mom and pops always got us books for Christmas. When I'd gobbled up all of mine, I'd grab my sisters books and enjoyed them too. Little House on the Prairie and Nancy Drew. But my favorite from my sister's library (though I'd never admit it to my chums) was the Trixie Belden series, I dug them, couldn't get enough. My sister was nice and knew how much I enjoyed them (and how fast I read) so she'd always let me read them first when she got a new book in the series.
Which was cool. My brother and I had football and guitars, my sis and I bonded over books.
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