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'How Many Of You Read This Book As A Child?'

Okay, I'll admit it. I even still have it somewhere, squirrelled away in a box in the attic. Good book.
 
Tako_Kichi said:
Not me but then again I grew up on the other side of the pond. ;)

My author of choice as a child was always Enid Blyton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton

The other big read for me at that time were all the Br'er Rabbit books which I just found out were re-worked by Blyton so maybe I read her versions and not the originals I thought I read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br'er_Rabbit
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Yup Noddy and later the famous 5
still got those in a box on the other side of the pond
H
 
I've never heard of it. I learned how to read from the early works of Robert Heinlein, Issac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury...
 
I've never heard of it. I learned how to read from the early works of Robert Heinlein, Issac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury...

N4Gix
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Those are great ones Bill!

Let us not forget Jules Verne!

:applause:


Bill
 
Never read it. Grew up with flight and maintenence manuals...:ernae:
But I still remember "The Most Dangerous Game". And "The Tales of Olga da Polga" Best Guinea-pig story ever! Don't know about G-Force yet...
 
safn1949 said:
Heck,I was 36 when it was published....man I'm gettiin' old...lol
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It was first published in 1947, so unless you are 98 now, it was out.

I read it long long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, but not for school. Along with a large variety of other horse themed books - The Black Stallion, Black Beauty, etc.

Brian
 
Panther,

I have the Breyer figurine of Misty somewhere. My mother packed it aways decades ago so it wouldn't get broken, and I don't have the slightest idea where it is. I do know where all my electric trains are, though.

JAMES
 
Sure I did P. Also Sea-Star of Chinquoteague, a follow on book.

GB
 
Panther,

I think you've hit upon something ....

There is a lapse between the first publishing of this book, and the second. So, by generation we are exposed to different things as we move through the educational process.

I was never exposed to this story (born in 1960), and neither was my wife. But my daughter says it was on their list. Yet we know the book was originally published in 1947.

Interesting.

The books I was handed were Charlotte's Web, the Narnia series, and later in High School -- Catcher in the Rye (I still think the Protagonist was a big weenie). In Middle School it was To Kill a Mockingbird (a story I still love -- although I think Aticus one of the most dangerous hero's of American Fiction) and oddly enough -- Catch 22 (I was in and advanced Lit class and we were thought adult enough to read it).

Who knew you were so deep?? :ernae:
 
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