Oddly, there were Playboys laying all about when I was a child...

OHHH...how could I forget...'Choose Your Own Adventure' books...you never knew what was going to happen!

"Are You ThereGod?, It's Me Margaret" was a great book. My friends in junior high loved reading teen novels...we were the nerdy crew. And I also read "Black Boy" by Wright at age 9 or so...I was intrigued by the authors that Wright quoted.

But before that, we had a set of books by Walt Disney that had a lot of Disney stories in them: Cinderella, Uncle Remus' Stories, Sleeping Beauty, etc. I actually still have them!

Judy Blume was the best


Tina (~!~)

okay -- a lot of duplicates here:

Judy Blume's "Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing," et al.
"Are You there God? It's Me, Margaret"
"From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler"
"Where the Wild Things Are"
"Harold and the Purple Crayon"
"Stuart Little" -- I can't belive what they did to him for the movie -- disgrace!
"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"
Bios of JFK, RFK, Jackie Kennedy, Helen Keller

applekisses said:

Hey Apples I remember those, too! They were great! I usually always made the wrong choices and froze to death in the snow

Congrats on your certification as well.

Tina (~!~)

NettieSmiles said:

I had an extensive Disney collection too -- forgot about it til I read ur post!

The Hardy Boys and those Adventure Books by Willard Price. I also read Mad magazine! Very funny.

NettieSmiles said:

That too!!! COMPLETELY forgot about choose your own adventure! That reminds me of the Annual Book Fair -- that was always so much fun, a book store right in the cafeteria.

And the monthly Scholastic order form. I always wanted more than Mom would allow. Anyone remember "Hot Dog!" and "Dynamite!" the Scholastic magazines?

madartista said:

They were the coolest. In red, blue, green and yellow. They were very informative, too

NettieSmiles said:

Thanks!
Those books were the greatest. But, once you read them once or twice they weren't fun anymore because you knew what was going to happen.

madartista said:

Those clubs were great and aided me in building my childhood collection...my own personal collection. I still have a few of them...the ones that don't stink from being in a musty basement, that is

Tina (~!~)

applekisses said:

those books rocked!!!

if u wanna make another post, go 2 page 7...
if u wanna stay on this forum, turn 2 the next page...

applekisses said:

Yeah, that was the let-down. But they were still cool, nonetheless.

Tina (~!~)

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Oh, me too.

I think I read every Judy Blume that was out during my adolescent years.

Does anyone remember "Free To Be You and Me"?

wellbeyond said:

I did too!

I still love Ray Bradbury.

I read a LOT of the already mentioned books so I won't repeat them all again, but another mystery series I used to like were the Trixie Belden books.

She was like Nancy Drew but I liked Trixie Belden better for some reason.

Someone above mentioned the Scholastic books order form you'd get in school and where you could place orders for books to buy...I used to LIVE for those! I was a total bookworm all the way back to very early childhood, and those Scholastic book orders were one of my favorite things. I loved it when I'd come into class and see that brown cardboard box sitting on the teacher's dest with the little blue open book picture printed on it. I knew what that meant!

Sitting through class until the teacher handed out everybody's books used to be torture. lol

I'm so grateful to my mom for teaching me to love reading.

Kay, this is not necessarily a book but remember Ad Libs?? They were so hilarious to read when u were done filling them out.

luv4thepurple1 said:

I used to love Mad Libs. I would laugh SO hard when they were finished, like it was the funniest thing I had ever read. I've done them recently, and they're really not that funny now. I guess I'm old. I've moved on to more sophisticated humor, like poop and butt jokes.

minneapolisgenius said:

Whoa...I forgot about that book...I remember!!!

minneapolisgenius said:

i remember that. every year we had to watch the movie in elementary school and i loved it.

i also loved judy blume and beverly cleary books. i basically read everything i could get my hands on when i was a youngster.

SnowQueen said:

TORTURE!!! The worst was when we "ran out of time" and had to wait until THE NEXT DAY to get our books! Arrrggghhh!!!

minneapolisgenius said:

I loved me some Mad Libs too!!!

teller said:

Do you remember the songs and the stories? I always remember the story about the little, bratty girl in "Ladies First" and the one called "It's Alright to Cry".

madartista said:

Is that what they were called... Mad Libs? Now I really feel old! I couldnt even remember the right name of em!

minneapolisgenius said:

Man...I was sooo young...I need to grab me a copy to refresh...but it was one of my first books ever! I must have been 4 or 5...all I remember anymore was this one bit with two babies having a conversation right after being born...

Where's "book napster" when you need it? Oh right...it's not 2007 yet...

madartista said:

YESSS! That was awful!!! I always wanted my new books right away so badly!

teller said:

Here: (it's just the text)
http://www.geocities.com/...eToBe.html

minneapolisgenius said:

teller said:

My older sister still actually knows all the songs and can sing them, lyrics, melodies, and all!