'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)
**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
*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
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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
**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...Flipper? Certainly had the VHS & maybe somethin' else...)
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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, Jigsaw Jones, Junie B. Jones, Amber Brown, Judy Moody, Magic Treehouse, Disney Fairies, Rainbow Magic, A-to-Z Mysteries, Geronimo Stilton, Warriors/Survivors, Something Queer, Hank Zipzer (found while working in the children's & YA library departments and sneaking as much reading time 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, 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, 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
ANOTHER MYSTERY SOLVED! (originally 6/13/22) "The Rex Gene book," as I've been thinking of it all this time, is an LGB called "We Like Kindergarten."
ReplyDeleteComment on a read-aloud sums it up: When I saw the cover of this I felt a flashback. Since the 90s I've had a particular memory of a book about little kids that I was reading in Rex-Gene Food Warehouse while checking out with my mom and grandma. All I could recall was an illustration of two kids doing something on a table next to some gourds, possibly involving small animals. Sure enough, page 5 must be the match. I recognize some of the other pictures too. Awesome to finally solve that little mystery. :'-3
Yup, remember a lot of 'em very well. Think Mom & I remarked on the unusualness of the little sister's playpen being in the front yard (and who could forget the freaky way Carol drew her xD)...and I just recall looking at it in front of the cellar bookcase where many of the Goldens are, where I did lots of lil-kid reading of course...le sigh.
Eloise Wilkin does beautiful art. *.* Especially of houses and shit. I had the Goodnight Book as well. Another one where seeing the cover felt like being Jane Doe/Angela Wright in "Town of Remembrance" (one of the very best Beyond Belief stories) and having the screen flash on you as a memory sparks. Parts of that one are so memorable.
+The Ghost of Sifty Sifty Sam
And needless to say, everything recommended/read/shown/given to kiddos MUST be the original. Original covers, everything. In the rare instances where the original version of something is not actually the best, specification is obviously required.
Partly did this so I'd have a better-organized list of top recommendations for when the nieces are reading (than the original one in the first "nostalgic rambles." Slightly better now that I turned yellow the main section that'd include most of junior high...) Later on come all the rest from high school, college, etc. Other great ones read in junior high: Flower for Algernon, National Velvet, Black Beauty, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, Little Women, The Winds of Altair. Diary of Anne Frank. Jane Eyre, Outsiders...? But yeah, anyhoo, just everything in the other nostalgia-tagged ones+anything else. ^p^
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