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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

What about the Laura Ingles Wilder, Little House on the Prairie series?



bob ford wrote:
> 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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