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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Treasure Island ....gender roles, huh ....bobf

p.s. I love poetry, 'still read Eliot once a week, to remind myself of a 
different path in life  ...bobf


--- On Sun, 10/26/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Things one could long for in the country/child's 
> books
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 2:59 PM
> One of my first books was Stevenson's A Child's
> Garden of Verses. I 
> still, on a dark, cold winter morning, find myself reciting
> "In winter I 
> get up and night, and dress by yellow candlelight..."
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> 
> bob ford wrote:
> > I guess your child is small , so anything Robert Louis
> Stevenson or Lewis Carroll would be my favorites that I can
> remember reading as a small child( L.C., to be re-read as
> adult) ....bobford
> > 
> >
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> > --- On Sun, 10/26/08, paxamicus AT earthlink.net  wrote:
> > 
> >> From: paxamicus AT earthlink.net 
> >> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Things one could long for
> in the country
> >> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> >> Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 2:41 PM
> >> There are great used book stores on the web. Abe
> books is
> >> one I use if  
> >> I want to pay for something but there's also
> paper back
> >> book swap....I  
> >> love that place cause more people get rid of good
> hardback
> >> cook books  
> >> and other goodies than you can shake a stick at. I
> am
> >> thrilled there  
> >> are also two used books stores in town.
> >>
> >> I just picked up about 30 used kids
> CLASSICS....and I do
> >> mean old  
> >> classics, from the Tompkins County Library Used
> book
> >> store....The  
> >> Bobbseys, a bunch of Alcotts, not just Little
> Women but the
> >> Eight  
> >> Cousins series I loved, a Little Prince with
> glorious
> >> illustrations,  
> >> ditto a whole Narnia series, the Five Little
> Peppers, just
> >> amazing old  
> >> books. We just finished Pinnochio...holy cats was
> it
> >> different than  
> >> the disneyfied version I remember. The Secret
> Garden was
> >> the one  
> >> previous to that, she was enthralled. Most of
> today's
> >> childrens' books  
> >> are so dumbed down, these are so nice to read
> aloud. Real
> >> words!
> >>
> >>
> >> If anyone would like to recommend their childhood
> favs,
> >> I'd be grateful!
> >>
> >>
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