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From: Melody Allen <melody_allen>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:52:01 -0400
Kathy, Your mention of Raggedy Ann took me back to another treasured series of picture books - Flora McFlimsey. Of course, I was the doll kid so they fueled my imagination and helped to develop an inner world, but these books were also important because they were special gifts for birthdays and holidays. I think that association adds to the memorable qualities of the books themselves - not just who gave them but also that they were just for me, not for my sister and me, but mine. I loved their small square size (bigger than the Beatrix Potter books) and, as I remember, all the white space with beautiful watercolors. Thanks for the memories, Melody Melody Allen melody_allen at gw.doa.state.ri.us
>>> <Kbshepler at aol.com> 05/24/06 11:06PM >>>
What fun! Like many, I have been enjoying this thread...
I jumped for joy when I discovered the reprinting of THE GOLDEN BOOK OF FAIRY TALES illustrated by Adrienne Segur. How many hours I spent lost in those lush pictures (each alternating full page illustration either full color or sepia tone.)
Unfortunately the book of poetry I also found late in life that meant so much to me as a child is packed away (how did that happen?) so I cannot quote the title and illustrator. How many times I read " ... up the airy mountain and down the rushy glen/ we daren't go a-hunting for fear of little men" - I am transported just typing the words.
The first books I truly remember being read to me were the RAGGEDY ANN and RAGGEDY ANDY series. I can understand how a very young child relates to books when I look at any of those titles. I must have undergone a cellular change and left this world in order to physically enter those stories. When I look at the stylized Gruelle flowers with their splotches of color, I can remember wandering among them and having them seem just about my height! Who need hallucinogens?
Much more pedestrian was a teen (tween?) obsession with anything 'nurse'. I knew exactly what I was going to do when I grew up: I would go to Stanford and enroll in a 5 year program to obtain a Masters in Nursing. So I read every title I could get my hands on of Cherry Ames and Sue Barton. (No, smile, I did
not fulfill those particular dreams: I went to Cal and studied art history!)
Such fun remembering.
Kathy
Kathy Shepler, Librarian Aurora School Oakland, CA
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Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:52:01 -0400
Kathy, Your mention of Raggedy Ann took me back to another treasured series of picture books - Flora McFlimsey. Of course, I was the doll kid so they fueled my imagination and helped to develop an inner world, but these books were also important because they were special gifts for birthdays and holidays. I think that association adds to the memorable qualities of the books themselves - not just who gave them but also that they were just for me, not for my sister and me, but mine. I loved their small square size (bigger than the Beatrix Potter books) and, as I remember, all the white space with beautiful watercolors. Thanks for the memories, Melody Melody Allen melody_allen at gw.doa.state.ri.us
>>> <Kbshepler at aol.com> 05/24/06 11:06PM >>>
What fun! Like many, I have been enjoying this thread...
I jumped for joy when I discovered the reprinting of THE GOLDEN BOOK OF FAIRY TALES illustrated by Adrienne Segur. How many hours I spent lost in those lush pictures (each alternating full page illustration either full color or sepia tone.)
Unfortunately the book of poetry I also found late in life that meant so much to me as a child is packed away (how did that happen?) so I cannot quote the title and illustrator. How many times I read " ... up the airy mountain and down the rushy glen/ we daren't go a-hunting for fear of little men" - I am transported just typing the words.
The first books I truly remember being read to me were the RAGGEDY ANN and RAGGEDY ANDY series. I can understand how a very young child relates to books when I look at any of those titles. I must have undergone a cellular change and left this world in order to physically enter those stories. When I look at the stylized Gruelle flowers with their splotches of color, I can remember wandering among them and having them seem just about my height! Who need hallucinogens?
Much more pedestrian was a teen (tween?) obsession with anything 'nurse'. I knew exactly what I was going to do when I grew up: I would go to Stanford and enroll in a 5 year program to obtain a Masters in Nursing. So I read every title I could get my hands on of Cherry Ames and Sue Barton. (No, smile, I did
not fulfill those particular dreams: I went to Cal and studied art history!)
Such fun remembering.
Kathy
Kathy Shepler, Librarian Aurora School Oakland, CA
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