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1. I'm setting a new goal for myself. I will force Jenn to make this bookcase with me and then, every month, I will set aside some money to purchase one kid's chapter book. Maaaaaaybe two. (Or ten, let's be realistic here!)
Now, as it happens, most of what I read are kid and YA lit, ha! But I still want some advice. I'm sure I've temporarily put aside the names of many of my childhood favorites. So I'm going to start a list of books and series I remember from my childhood. I'm asking only that you add to it, any books you feel are appropriate for kids. If you want to critique books that are on the list, that's good too - but try to keep personal preference out of it, just things like "I found this book had some stereotypical images of this group of people" or "It was kinda violent", not "WOW SO BORING!" No YA unless it fits, please. Use your best judgment.
2. I often like the concept of Klutz books, but I feel stifled because I cannot look inside them in the store to see if I want to buy them after all. Same deal with kits and that sort of thing. Anybody with any Klutz book or kit that normally comes shrinkwrapped, something for kids, if you could just help me out by either describing the contents or by taking a picture or two of the contents, that'd be really helpful. I'll write up what I can of the Klutz books I got for the nieces in the morning.
I'll put series names in italics. If a book series doesn't have a name, I'll use that for the first title instead.
The All-of-a-Kind Family
The Great Brain
Homer Price
The Baby-Sitters Club
Sweet Valley Whatevers
SOME of the Discworld books
Matilda
The BFG
Danny, Champion of the World
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Great Glass Elevator
The Witches
The Search for Delicious
Pippi Longstocking
The Children of Noisy Village (got a copy at the ETG today, win!)
Ronia, Robber's Daughter
Judy Moody
Amber Brown
Junie B. Jones
Encyclopedia Brown
Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys
Harry Potter
Ordinary Boy
The Exiles
The Shoes Books (and I know they're not really a series, whatever)
Frindle
The Wayside School books
Holes
There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom
Someday, Angeline
The Bruno and Boots books
I Want to Go Home!
Fudge
Oracle Doll (now known, bleck, as "The Doll That Could Tell the Future")
The Girl with the Silver Eyes
The Giver
The City of Ember
Coraline
Outside by Andre Norton (you know, it's typical that my first chapter book was post-apocalyptic fiction)
The Girl Who Owned a City
Number the Stars
The Devil's Arithmetic (maybe this is YA and I read it too young)
Teetoncey
The Twinkie Squad
Goosebumps
Animorphs
Young Wizards
The Tortall (so it's more older) and the Circle books
The Pit Dragon Quartet - another YA one?
Goblin Wood
The Wizard Test
Away is a Strange Place to Be
ORVIS
Paddington Bear
The Pooh books
Gone-Away Lake
Half Magic
Magic by the Lake
Bedknob and Broomstick
Mary Poppins
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
The Little House books (yes, I *know* about that, I'm just listing right now)
Whales on Stilts
The Johnny Maxwell series
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Ella Enchanted and Fairest
Just Ella
The Ramona books
Muggy Maggie
Emily's Runaway Imagination
Wait Til Helen Comes
Time for Andrew
The books by John Bellairs
The Boxcar Children
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Charlotte's Web
Stuart Little
The Borrowers
The Pippolinis
Shoebag
The Ghost Wore Gray
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
My Father's Dragon
Desperaux
Behind the Attic Wall
Lucy Babbidge's House
The Series of Unfortunate Events
Detectives in Togas
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Libby on Wednesdays
Percy Jackson
Stepping on the Cracks
And Condors Danced
Letters from Leslie
Goodnight, Mr. Tom
Back Home
Primrose Day
There are others that are slipping my mind. I just want to list books. Even if they have major problems with them, I want them on the list so I can remember that later. Some people over at TBW have given suggestions, which I've gratefully added, but only those books which I'm personally familiar with. If you can add more titles (anything which triggers a memory, I'll add, and if I get enough I'm not familiar with I'll add another entry for those), or if you can spread this around so I get more help, I'd be thrilled.
Oh, and I've asked before and I'll ask again: Where can one get a rotating bookcase such as libraries have, cheap? I've counted - the ones our library uses can hold 400 books! I'm figuring a library/bookstore/school supply store, but which would have the cheapest ones? Or can I pick them up, like, used? Does that happen?
1. I'm setting a new goal for myself. I will force Jenn to make this bookcase with me and then, every month, I will set aside some money to purchase one kid's chapter book. Maaaaaaybe two. (Or ten, let's be realistic here!)
Now, as it happens, most of what I read are kid and YA lit, ha! But I still want some advice. I'm sure I've temporarily put aside the names of many of my childhood favorites. So I'm going to start a list of books and series I remember from my childhood. I'm asking only that you add to it, any books you feel are appropriate for kids. If you want to critique books that are on the list, that's good too - but try to keep personal preference out of it, just things like "I found this book had some stereotypical images of this group of people" or "It was kinda violent", not "WOW SO BORING!" No YA unless it fits, please. Use your best judgment.
2. I often like the concept of Klutz books, but I feel stifled because I cannot look inside them in the store to see if I want to buy them after all. Same deal with kits and that sort of thing. Anybody with any Klutz book or kit that normally comes shrinkwrapped, something for kids, if you could just help me out by either describing the contents or by taking a picture or two of the contents, that'd be really helpful. I'll write up what I can of the Klutz books I got for the nieces in the morning.
I'll put series names in italics. If a book series doesn't have a name, I'll use that for the first title instead.
The All-of-a-Kind Family
The Great Brain
Homer Price
The Baby-Sitters Club
Sweet Valley Whatevers
SOME of the Discworld books
Matilda
The BFG
Danny, Champion of the World
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/Great Glass Elevator
The Witches
The Search for Delicious
Pippi Longstocking
The Children of Noisy Village (got a copy at the ETG today, win!)
Ronia, Robber's Daughter
Judy Moody
Amber Brown
Junie B. Jones
Encyclopedia Brown
Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys
Harry Potter
Ordinary Boy
The Exiles
The Shoes Books (and I know they're not really a series, whatever)
Frindle
The Wayside School books
Holes
There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom
Someday, Angeline
The Bruno and Boots books
I Want to Go Home!
Fudge
Oracle Doll (now known, bleck, as "The Doll That Could Tell the Future")
The Girl with the Silver Eyes
The Giver
The City of Ember
Coraline
Outside by Andre Norton (you know, it's typical that my first chapter book was post-apocalyptic fiction)
The Girl Who Owned a City
Number the Stars
The Devil's Arithmetic (maybe this is YA and I read it too young)
Teetoncey
The Twinkie Squad
Goosebumps
Animorphs
Young Wizards
The Tortall (so it's more older) and the Circle books
The Pit Dragon Quartet - another YA one?
Goblin Wood
The Wizard Test
Away is a Strange Place to Be
ORVIS
Paddington Bear
The Pooh books
Gone-Away Lake
Half Magic
Magic by the Lake
Bedknob and Broomstick
Mary Poppins
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
The Little House books (yes, I *know* about that, I'm just listing right now)
Whales on Stilts
The Johnny Maxwell series
The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Ella Enchanted and Fairest
Just Ella
The Ramona books
Muggy Maggie
Emily's Runaway Imagination
Wait Til Helen Comes
Time for Andrew
The books by John Bellairs
The Boxcar Children
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Charlotte's Web
Stuart Little
The Borrowers
The Pippolinis
Shoebag
The Ghost Wore Gray
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
My Father's Dragon
Desperaux
Behind the Attic Wall
Lucy Babbidge's House
The Series of Unfortunate Events
Detectives in Togas
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Libby on Wednesdays
Percy Jackson
Stepping on the Cracks
And Condors Danced
Letters from Leslie
Goodnight, Mr. Tom
Back Home
Primrose Day
There are others that are slipping my mind. I just want to list books. Even if they have major problems with them, I want them on the list so I can remember that later. Some people over at TBW have given suggestions, which I've gratefully added, but only those books which I'm personally familiar with. If you can add more titles (anything which triggers a memory, I'll add, and if I get enough I'm not familiar with I'll add another entry for those), or if you can spread this around so I get more help, I'd be thrilled.
Oh, and I've asked before and I'll ask again: Where can one get a rotating bookcase such as libraries have, cheap? I've counted - the ones our library uses can hold 400 books! I'm figuring a library/bookstore/school supply store, but which would have the cheapest ones? Or can I pick them up, like, used? Does that happen?
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Date: 2009-06-08 05:48 am (UTC)by Enid Blyton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Blyton#Most_successful_works)
by Shirley Rousseau Murphy- series starting with Nightpool
Trixie Belden books (like Nancy Drew except younger and more realistic- has annoying brothers, chores, and trouble with schoolwork)
Bobbsey Twins books