Lost childhood favorites - Page 2

astrodad · 12-24-2008, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by JeffElkins

These books? They're available at Amazon.

Yeah my original comment was more to reference the fact that I lost my originals, but thanks. I've since ordered a half dozen or so of these for cheap. Thanks!

pshrynk · 12-24-2008, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by LeisureSuitLarry

The first thing I think of is The Mouse and the Motorcycle, Runaway Ralph, and Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary. I must have read the first two a couple of dozen times and they never get old.

I loved Beverly Cleary! Now I read them to my grandson, who loves them just as much!

phenomshel · 01-25-2009, 01:10 AM

I don't know so much about "lost" as "favorites". The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge was an enduring favorite, and still is. I did find it on Amazon, probably not hurt by the fact that they're going to make a movie out of it.
I read all the "color" fairy books by Andrew Lang several times over. And when I got a little older I got hooked on Cherry Ames and Sue Barton. Would LOVE to find either of those series again....

Shel

Curly · 01-25-2009, 01:55 AM

If I remember correctly, Amazon (the US site) has Cherry Ames. They are re-prints of the original series. I had hoped to get them as ebooks, but no luck. I haven't checked on Sue Barton, I had forgotten about her.

phenomshel · 01-25-2009, 02:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Curly

If I remember correctly, Amazon (the US site) has Cherry Ames. They are re-prints of the original series. I had hoped to get them as ebooks, but no luck. I haven't checked on Sue Barton, I had forgotten about her.

Thanks!!

Shel

justlizz · 01-25-2009, 07:56 AM

Funny enough I checked a few weeks ago on the Cherry Ames books on UK Amazon and they had quite a few but they were expensive to get just to go back to childhood I also remember reading the suzanna of the Mounties series I had forgotten about them
lizz

Curly · 01-25-2009, 08:25 AM

So very, very tempting!! Four hardback Cherry Ames for £20 -- including 'Cherry Ames, Student Nurse' which was always my favourite. I'm saving for a Sony 505, but after that...

fugazied · 01-29-2009, 12:39 AM

Woh I didn't realise they were books. I was addicted to the cartoon series as a kid. Fantastic stuff!

mgrunk · 01-30-2009, 09:50 PM

I have a book that I read obsessively - can't remember the title or author and it's driving me crazy - it was a scholastic book that I got in the late 70's probably (yes I'm old :-) - it was about a brother and sister who's parents were killed and they were being chased. They set off on their own - meet a wood carver who gives them refuge until the bad guy catches up - she twists her ankle in a canyon and stays in a cave that has a natural fireplace flue. The forest they go through becomes absent of birds as they approach the fortress - it's full of kids that have been kidnapped and are being brainwashed by this black stone material that the building is made of. There is mention of a hieronymus bosch machine? She's put on a stronger brainwasher thing that looks like a giant black playpen - yeah! I found it via a post I placed this morning on abebooks.com - The Silver Crown.

Patricia · 01-31-2009, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by phenomshel

I read all the "color" fairy books by Andrew Lang several times over. And when I got a little older I got hooked on Cherry Ames and Sue Barton. Would LOVE to find either of those series again....
Shel

Just in case you hadn't noticed, RWood has converted and uploaded all the Andrew Lang Fairy collections.

Patricia · 01-31-2009, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by mgrunk

I have a book that I read obsessively - can't remember the title or author and it's driving me crazy - it was a scholastic book that I got in the late 70's probably (yes I'm old :-) - it was about a brother and sister who's parents were killed and they were being chased. They set off on their own - meet a wood carver who gives them refuge until the bad guy catches up - she twists her ankle in a canyon and stays in a cave that has a natural fireplace flue. The forest they go through becomes absent of birds as they approach the fortress - it's full of kids that have been kidnapped and are being brainwashed by this black stone material that the building is made of. There is mention of a hieronymus bosch machine? She's put on a stronger brainwasher thing that looks like a giant black playpen - crud, I loved that book and would send a $20 paypal to anyone who could provide me w/ the title :-)

Someone has produced a list of all Scolastic Books as an Ebay guide:
http://reviews.ebay.com/Collecting-S...00000004041567
This might be a useful place to start.

mgrunk · 01-31-2009, 08:22 PM

thanks for the link - I have some other scholastic books that I'm trying to find. I lived in a rural countryside w/ no public libraries - so when school was out, all I had to read were my collection of books that I bought. If they hadn't have priced them so cheaply, I think I would have lost my mind during those months. As it was, I read my small collection hundreds of times. I developed this ability to never be able to remember the endings, so the were always new and yet a familiar companion.

phenomshel · 02-01-2009, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Just in case you hadn't noticed, RWood has converted and uploaded all the Andrew Lang Fairy collections.

Noticed!! *laugh*...thanks!

URSGEO · 12-01-2009, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by wayspooled

My first real books were because of Disney and Classics Illustrated. Somehow I picked up a Classics Illustrated because of the cover in my quest grabbing the Donald Duck, Archie and Veronica, Sad Sack, Two-Gun Kid, GI Combat etc comics and loved it. I remember my favs were Three Musketeers, Lion of the North, Men of Iron and The White Company (Dumas, Henty, Pyle and Doyle)

Then I was over my grandmother's house and she had a bookshelf that had some books on it and I found those titles there and the connection was made between the "Classics" part of Classics Illustrated and the real books I was holding in my hands. (of course she gave them to me since they'd belonged to a long dead relative) And I was off and running

Now most of the classics I read then are available here at Mobileread and at Archive.org and Project Gutenberg (first). (highly recommend G.A. Henty who wrote so many books that got into C.I. - Lion of the North is still a fond favorite)

So then my parents saw me reading "books" not comics and I was off into some books I'll probably never see in legal ebook format

The lost favorites hehe.. The Chip Hilton sports series by Claire Bee, Tom Swift Jr by Victor Applebee (there was even a series of early 1900's Tom Swift books about Jr's father), Rick Brant series by John Blaine, The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley, My Friend Flicka, Bronc Burnett, Tom Quest, Hardy Boys...

I know this is an old post but found it when I was searching for some old children's books. Tom Swift books can be found for kindle on www.freekindlebooks.org. They have a lot of the series!

Billjr13 · 12-04-2009, 06:04 AM

I have to add The Three Investigators books and The Hobbit and of course The Wind in the Willows

01-30-2009, 09:50 PM	#24
mgrunk Zealot Posts: 130 Karma: 96 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: metro Atlanta, GA Device: Sony Reader PRS-505	I have a book that I read obsessively - can't remember the title or author and it's driving me crazy - it was a scholastic book that I got in the late 70's probably (yes I'm old :-) - it was about a brother and sister who's parents were killed and they were being chased. They set off on their own - meet a wood carver who gives them refuge until the bad guy catches up - she twists her ankle in a canyon and stays in a cave that has a natural fireplace flue. The forest they go through becomes absent of birds as they approach the fortress - it's full of kids that have been kidnapped and are being brainwashed by this black stone material that the building is made of. There is mention of a hieronymus bosch machine? She's put on a stronger brainwasher thing that looks like a giant black playpen - yeah! I found it via a post I placed this morning on abebooks.com - The Silver Crown. Last edited by mgrunk; 01-31-2009 at 08:17 PM.

01-31-2009, 08:22 PM	#27
mgrunk Zealot Posts: 130 Karma: 96 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: metro Atlanta, GA Device: Sony Reader PRS-505	thanks for the link - I have some other scholastic books that I'm trying to find. I lived in a rural countryside w/ no public libraries - so when school was out, all I had to read were my collection of books that I bought. If they hadn't have priced them so cheaply, I think I would have lost my mind during those months. As it was, I read my small collection hundreds of times. I developed this ability to never be able to remember the endings, so the were always new and yet a familiar companion. Last edited by mgrunk; 01-31-2009 at 08:26 PM.

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phenomshel ZCD BombShel Posts: 4,793 Karma: 8293322 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: The Frozen North (aka Illinois, USA) Device: iPad, STB Kindle Oasis	I don't know so much about "lost" as "favorites". The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge was an enduring favorite, and still is. I did find it on Amazon, probably not hurt by the fact that they're going to make a movie out of it. I read all the "color" fairy books by Andrew Lang several times over. And when I got a little older I got hooked on Cherry Ames and Sue Barton. Would LOVE to find either of those series again.... Shel

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Curly I need a holiday! Posts: 1,227 Karma: 4622 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Scotland Device: PRS-505, ipod touch	If I remember correctly, Amazon (the US site) has Cherry Ames. They are re-prints of the original series. I had hoped to get them as ebooks, but no luck. I haven't checked on Sue Barton, I had forgotten about her.

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justlizz Connoisseur Posts: 55 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: UK Device: sony prs 505	Funny enough I checked a few weeks ago on the Cherry Ames books on UK Amazon and they had quite a few but they were expensive to get just to go back to childhood I also remember reading the suzanna of the Mounties series I had forgotten about them lizz

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Curly I need a holiday! Posts: 1,227 Karma: 4622 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Scotland Device: PRS-505, ipod touch	So very, very tempting!! Four hardback Cherry Ames for £20 -- including 'Cherry Ames, Student Nurse' which was always my favourite. I'm saving for a Sony 505, but after that...

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fugazied Wizard Posts: 1,305 Karma: 1958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: iPod Touch	Woh I didn't realise they were books. I was addicted to the cartoon series as a kid. Fantastic stuff!

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