'kid lit nostalgia'

Talking elementary and middle school favorites... aka Reading Material For a Quality Childhood:

***Berenstain Bears
***Clifford
**Arthur
***All Dr. Seuss+Beginner Books
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**Henry and Mudge
**Nate the Great
**Amelia Bedelia
**I Spy
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**Beatrix Potter
*Shel Silverstein
**Busy People All Around Town
**365 Stories
**Easy readers (e.g. Baseball Ballerina, Big Bad Bully, The Nutcracker Ballet, etc.)
**Little Golden Books (their iconic group of characters, Noel, Four Puppies, et. al.)
**Disney's Wonderful World of Reading/Young Readers Library (belonged to Mickey's Book Club with the blue rack as well as the Berenstain Cub Club+the Seuss club w/ the red Cat in the Hat rack)
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*The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
*The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
*Seven Blind Mice
*Market Square Dog
*I Want a Dog
*Good Dog Carl
*The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy
*Dogzilla
*The First Dog
*Airport Adventure
*Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm
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*Down By the Bay (Ancona/Lohstoeter)
*I Need a Lunch Box
*The Great Big Enormous Turnip
*Tikki Tikki Tembo
*It Looked Like Spilt Milk
*Is Your Mama a Llama?
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***Baby-Sitters Club/Little Sister
***Boxcar Children
***Goosebumps/Fear Street
**Sweet Valley (esp. Kids+Twins)
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**Bunnicula
*American Girl
*Beverly Cleary (esp. Ribsy)
*Judy Blume
*Joan Lowery Nixon (!)
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*Saddle Club/Pony Pals
**Bailey School Kids
*Triplet Trouble
*Marvin Redpost
*Animal Ark
*Puppy Place/Patrol
*Captain Underpants
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***Sideways Stories From Wayside School (+Wayside School Is Falling Down/Gets a Little Stranger)
*Santa Paws (& his return...the ones that have sequels, I'm including 'em, HOKAI)
**There's an Owl in the Shower
*There's a Hamster in My Lunchbox
**Backward Bird Dog
**Watchdog and the Coyotes
**Pet-rified
**Teeth Week
***James and the Giant Peach (etc.)
***The Brave Little Toaster (Goes to Mars)
*Sockathon
***Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
**The Exiles (+at Home/in Love)
***Soul of the Silver Dog
**Faith and the Electric Dogs
**The Incredible Journey
*Riff Remember
*Cages
**Downriver
*Mick Harte Was Here
*Fire on the Wind
*Squashed
*Junkyard Dog
*A Dog Called Kitty
*Misty of Chincoteague
*Time Cat
*Shiloh
*Old Yeller/Savage Sam
*Sounder; Wander
*Stone Fox
**My Life in Dog Years/Puppies Dogs & Blue Northers
*Where the Red Fern Grows
*The Good Dog (doggos out the whazoo)
**The Hundred and One Dalmatians/The Starlight Barking
*Charlotte's Web
*Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH
*Bad Girls (see grimmages, esp around mid-2023...Voigt, Julie Edwards' Mandy...) 
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***Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
**Spinetinglers [later: Christopher Pike--esp. Bury Me Deep]
*In a Dark Dark Room/Campfire Stories: Things That Go Bump in the Night
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*The Wishgiver
*Interstellar Pig
*From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
*The Cay
*Nothing But the Truth
*Homecoming
*Walk Two Moons
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**Great Illustrated Classics (Call of the Wild, Little Women, Black Beauty, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, Oliver Twist, Around the World in 80 Days)
**TV adaptations/tie-ins (Wishbone, Clueless, Sabrina, Mary Kate & Ashley (mysteries! It Takes Twos!), Full House/Party of Five, etc.); movie tie-in novelizations (esp. Pokemon and Disney e.g. Oliver & Company, Homeward Bound II, Lassie, X2, Babe: Pig in the City...Flipper? The ones with pages of pics in the center.)
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*Poseur, Bass Ackwards & Belly-Up/Footfree & Fancyloose, Divas Don't Yield, Beacon Street Girls, Callahan Cousins, Penderwicks, Milky Way & the Galaxy Girls, Circle of 3, Shoe-La-La
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Madeline, Trixie Belden, Encyclopedia Brown, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, A-to-Z Mysteries, Jigsaw Jones, Junie B. Jones, Amber Brown, Judy Moody, Magic Treehouse, Disney Fairies, Rainbow Magic, Geronimo Stilton, Warriors/Survivors, Something Queer, Hank Zipzer (found while working in the children's & YA library departments and sneaking as much reading as possible)
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...and so much more. ^w^ Nonfiction/handbooks to infinity and beyond (I've always been very heavy on that--animals and the natural world and every interesting topic to be learned all about!) TV tie-ins, joke books, great ones from elementary school classes or book fairs or Scholastic orders or libraries (some I sadly can't find), folk tales, short story anthologies* from school+home (@ least one swiped for home), plays, sooo many wonderful picture/storybooks, board books, bath books, peek-a-boos, pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, ones with lenticular pages, encyclopedias, dictionaries, nursery rhymes/fairy tales/poems+shit, movie/tv storybooks, "Sound Stories," read-alongs with cassettes, seek-and-finds, ones from my mom's childhood. Adorable originals. Disney/Pooh, Pixar, Sesame Street/Muppets, Looney/Tiny Toons, Nick/Nick Jr., Animaniacs, Garfield, U.S. Acres, Peanuts, Shining Time Station/Thomas, Pokemon, Pound Puppies, Anastasia, Lisa Frank, Barbie, Scooby-Doo, Teddy Ruxpin, My Little Pony, Puppy in My Pocket, Magic School Bus, Peeps, Simpsons, ADGTH, Busy Town/Scarry, Spot, Rainbow Fish, et. al. Everything that's ever been on our shelves. For all ages. ^w^ #gnitemoon ~ also tres tres importante bien sur: this whole blog + DIIISSSSSS ...okay well nm that obviously, but both drives...

*Yeah, those were great with all the short stories, plays, poems, artwork--so much memorable shit 

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