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In reply to the discussion: What was your favorite children's book. Mine was The Velveteen Rabbit. I had a stuffed rabbit that went with the book. [View all]debm55
(31,167 posts)23. Ty Lunabell, I read the Little House on the Prairie books. The series on TV was not the same.
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What was your favorite children's book. Mine was The Velveteen Rabbit. I had a stuffed rabbit that went with the book. [View all]
debm55
May 2024
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Thank you, Permanut. Somehow it got lost. As an adult I bought another book and stuffed rabbit.
debm55
May 2024
#7
Thank you Ocelot II , How nice to have the rabbit and the doll. I enjoyed Kipling's stories also.
debm55
May 2024
#10
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee are the origin of the Walrus, according to Paul McCartney...lol
cayugafalls
May 2024
#50
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Because she had dark hair like mine and I thought all princess should not always be a
CTyankee
May 2024
#6
Thanks. I feel ancient since a lot of this discussion is about fairy tale stuff after the creaton of the Internet. I had
CTyankee
May 2024
#27
TY CTyankee, I had the movies. but my first love were the actual books I could feel and smell. Also each steel mill town
debm55
May 2024
#65
Oh you must have been very young, I remember Ferdinand the bull and the little ducklings. Ty, Harker.
debm55
May 2024
#22
Ty Lunabell, I read the Little House on the Prairie books. The series on TV was not the same.
debm55
May 2024
#23
Ty woodsprite. I always felt sorry for Charlotte. I know about the spider thing. I was outside the other day and a
debm55
May 2024
#28
Ty woodsprite. I have never seen them ballooning. It must have been great to watch.
debm55
May 2024
#94
TY SKKY, I saw both movies that were made. You had a visual to go with the book.
debm55
May 2024
#32
Ty Different Drummer. Loved all of Dr, Seuss. books. Luckily as a child, we had a large Carnegie Library to get all the
debm55
May 2024
#33
One Dr. Seuss book that I was recently made aware of the existence of is...
Different Drummer
May 2024
#38
i read Charlotte's Web as an adult and the cartoon much later . im not a veggin but i have great respect
AllaN01Bear
May 2024
#37
Ty Coventina. I really enjoyed Richard Scarry's books. I see it was a Golden Book with the gold metallic binding
debm55
May 2024
#102
Ty yellowdogintexas, Wonderful choices. I hate to say it , but I didn't like Barbar either. For some reason it
debm55
May 2024
#105
My class read this. I know they did a movie of the book, but nothing beats a book, so I didn't see it.
debm55
May 2024
#118
Loved those books. About 15 years ago. Kohl's would have classic children's books with a stuffy. I have Horton Hears a
debm55
May 2024
#122
HAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAH "see Jane run. Run Jane run. See Spot run Run Spot run,-----Really a whole generation of kids
debm55
May 2024
#69
Ty PJMcK I remember them. As a classroom teacher Scholastic would a lot each teacher a selection. I picked the Boxcar
debm55
May 2024
#68
Oh, canuckledragger. you were not a wild thing. You were a child finding his way as all children must do to grow. I am
debm55
May 2024
#67
Thank you Jeebo, During my teaching days, I read the first Black Stallion to my class. I had read the series as a child.
debm55
May 2024
#66
TY I_UndergroundPanther. Freat choices. My 6th grade class had the Phantom Tollbooth as in a play version in their
debm55
May 2024
#91
TY jmowreader. We had the Encyclopedia you would buy weakly at the A&P they were full of pictures. Question for you --
debm55
May 2024
#89
Even perhaps before or concurrent w Dr Suess: Harold and The Purple Crayon!
electric_blue68
May 2024
#80
Did you notice you could look at the illustrations for the Dick and Jane books. As the series went along, there was less
debm55
May 2024
#88
Thank you MIGuy. I remember the illustrations of books I read also. And they do help with understanding.
debm55
May 2024
#86
TY MiHale. They must have been really good to reread. I still read "All Creatures Great and Small" series.
debm55
May 2024
#119
The Wump World, by Bill Peet. (But I think the Veleveteen Rabbit was the first
petronius
May 2024
#111
I have been called Tom Slick for years - at least since the time of Slick Willie.
TomSlick
May 2024
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