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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

You've gone to kill meat, but , no; I wish I had, though.  I did watch some 
of the tv series ....bobf


--- On Sun, 10/26/08, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Things one could long for in the country/child's 
> books
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 3:09 PM
> 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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