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From: Sheila Welch <sheilawelch_at_juno.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:49:49 -0500
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Hello,
I remember getting a Happy Hollisters book early in third grade and enjoying it but feeling disappointed in a few more that I read in the series. I also read two or three Trixie Belden and at least the first book in the Boxcar Children series. There were two long series that I read, both by Walter Farley: The Black Stallion and The Island Stallion. My mother told me about the Anne of Green Gables books, but I never could find them in a store or library back in the late 1950s and early 60s. Maybe they were out-of-print during that time period?
Two of our children became fluent readers through series-reading, and before they started reading on their own, I'd read all of Ezra Jack Keats books about Peter and his neighbors to both kids. They were totally engaged in Peter's world and loved the fact that they knew these characters from book to book. Our son discovered Enid Blyton's Secret Seven books at the public library when he was in second or third grade. He read every one he could find and also every Beverly Cleary Ramona book available at that time. Our daughter struggled with reading in first grade but took off when she started listening to recordings of the Frog and Toad series. Now my six-year-old granddaughter is into the American Girl books and has developed a fascination with American history and a sense of time that surprises me. She's also a huge fan of Ramona, and, despite her interest in when things happened, she is not bothered at all by Ramona's extended childhood that spans decades.
Sheila
, 05 Aug 2011 13:42:26 -0500 Greg Leitich Smith writes: When I was a kid (ca 2d-3d grade), my brother and I absolutely loved THE THREE INVESTIGATORS series. So much so that we were a little baffled at how kids could actually "get into" THE HARDY BOYS (although we -- or at least, I -- read those, too). TTI resonated with me, I think, because they were pre-drivers license kids: they had to do what they could with bikes and other bits of ingenuity of their own. The Hardy Boys, of course, were 17 and 18 and had cars and a father who was a cop...
I also enjoyed the DANNY DUNN series -- sort of light science fiction adventures. I never read them all, but always enjoyed the ones I did read. Some of them felt dated, even at the time, but I was willing to live with that :-).
More recently, I've enjoyed ANIMORPHS (which I understand is being reissued). They're sort of fun and have a really disturbing villain and premise, too, when you think about it...
I haven't read CIRQUE DU FREAK, but thought the movie was pretty good... Greg http://www.gregleitichsmith.com
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:49:49 -0500
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand
Hello,
I remember getting a Happy Hollisters book early in third grade and enjoying it but feeling disappointed in a few more that I read in the series. I also read two or three Trixie Belden and at least the first book in the Boxcar Children series. There were two long series that I read, both by Walter Farley: The Black Stallion and The Island Stallion. My mother told me about the Anne of Green Gables books, but I never could find them in a store or library back in the late 1950s and early 60s. Maybe they were out-of-print during that time period?
Two of our children became fluent readers through series-reading, and before they started reading on their own, I'd read all of Ezra Jack Keats books about Peter and his neighbors to both kids. They were totally engaged in Peter's world and loved the fact that they knew these characters from book to book. Our son discovered Enid Blyton's Secret Seven books at the public library when he was in second or third grade. He read every one he could find and also every Beverly Cleary Ramona book available at that time. Our daughter struggled with reading in first grade but took off when she started listening to recordings of the Frog and Toad series. Now my six-year-old granddaughter is into the American Girl books and has developed a fascination with American history and a sense of time that surprises me. She's also a huge fan of Ramona, and, despite her interest in when things happened, she is not bothered at all by Ramona's extended childhood that spans decades.
Sheila
, 05 Aug 2011 13:42:26 -0500 Greg Leitich Smith writes: When I was a kid (ca 2d-3d grade), my brother and I absolutely loved THE THREE INVESTIGATORS series. So much so that we were a little baffled at how kids could actually "get into" THE HARDY BOYS (although we -- or at least, I -- read those, too). TTI resonated with me, I think, because they were pre-drivers license kids: they had to do what they could with bikes and other bits of ingenuity of their own. The Hardy Boys, of course, were 17 and 18 and had cars and a father who was a cop...
I also enjoyed the DANNY DUNN series -- sort of light science fiction adventures. I never read them all, but always enjoyed the ones I did read. Some of them felt dated, even at the time, but I was willing to live with that :-).
More recently, I've enjoyed ANIMORPHS (which I understand is being reissued). They're sort of fun and have a really disturbing villain and premise, too, when you think about it...
I haven't read CIRQUE DU FREAK, but thought the movie was pretty good... Greg http://www.gregleitichsmith.com
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