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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | What Are You Reading Now? : What books came into your home today? - OCTOBER 2008 | | 206 | mckait, Today 7:53pm |  |
| 50 Book Challenge : hannahj26's 50 book challenge | | 12 | hannahj26, Yesterday 2:50am | |
| Children's Fiction : Books YOU loved as a young child! | | 85 | jadedoz, September 27 | |
| The Green Dragon : Revisiting the books of your yoot on your own for the first time. | | 34 | Busifer, September 25 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the Week of 13 September 2008 | | 203 | mckait, September 20 | |
| The Green Dragon : What kinds of books (if any) do remember your parents reading when you were a child? | | 74 | Prop2gether, September 17 | |
| Book talk : Top 10 favorite Young adult books of all time (ONLY TEN! i know it will be hard) | | 8 | whymaggiemay, August 30 | |
| Readers Over Sixty : What did you read first? | | 36 | mlfhlibrarian, August 29 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Jane Eyre | | 23 | Whisper1, August 12 | |
| Combiners! : Heidi's Children | | 3 | TadAD, July 17 | |
| Book talk : First book | | 72 | dchaikin, July 11 | |
| Children's Literature : Essential books for a kid under 10's bookshelf | | 35 | happymummy, July 1 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game Chapter 7 | | 183 | Booksloth, June 5 | |
| Girlybooks : Things we want our daughters to read | | 40 | Allie_Mag_79, May 27 | |
| Girlybooks : Happy Mother's Day | | 12 | janeajones, May 23 | |
| Children's Literature : Message Board | | 45 | yareader2, May 13 | |
| Travel and Exploration literature : Non Travel books that have made you want to visit a place | | 63 | varske, May 3 | |
| Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Raggedtig's Book list | | 16 | raggedtig, December 2007 | |
| Dormant: Book talk : What was your favourite book or series as a kid? | | 114 | twacorbies, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: Made into a Movie : Message Board | | 81 | dancerinthedark, September 2007 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : List five books that are (about) dairies or in Dairy format | | 6 | myshelves, June 2007 | |
| Book talk : Favorite book from your childhood? | | 24 | kerrlm, August 30 |
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| What Are You Reading Now? : How your childhood influenced your reading? | | 98 | tiddleyboom, July 31 |
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| Reading Globally : Reading globally--Children's Literature | | 15 | LolaWalser, May 26 |
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| Girlybooks : Favorite Heroine? | | 65 | mckait, May 25 |
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| Reading Resolutions : What Did You Read in 2007? | | 23 | Sandydog1, March 30 |
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| List Five Books Parlour Game : Books and Movies | | 47 | frogbelly, February 22 |
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| Dormant: Awful Lit. : everyone said I should read this because??? | | 137 | princessputter, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: Off-topic : The person below me, Part VI... | | 420 | rdurick, December 2007 |
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| Dormant: Book talk : classic children's books | | 31 | hailelib, October 2006 |
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... erebithia
The City of Ember
Robin Hood
Dragon Keeper
Dragon Rider
Grim Grotto
Deathly Hallows (for $3!!)
Heidi
Jurassic Park
Le Petit Prince
The Lost World
Rose Daughter
The Tears of the Salamander
Ptolemy's Gate
I got all of those for about $10 because ... ... written in a different time, but it still annoys. Also, I don't know whether I just read too many, or what, but books like Heidi, Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates and Pollyanna began to annoy me as well. The children were just so hopelessly good. I enjoyed them individually, but the ... ... ("Wake up, wake up it's Christmas time! Time to get up and get dressed!), 'Mr Tickle' (Ugh!), 'Black Beauty,' Heidi,' The Hobbit' and 'Lord of the Rings' and 'These Old Shades.' In primary school our teachers read us some good ones including 'Oskar and the Icepick,' 'From ... ... Lavransdatter this weekend and so far it is really enjoyable. It opens with scenes which for some reason reminded me of Heidi. ... by Kate DiCamillo
6. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
7. The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
8. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
9. Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
10. Flush by Carl Hiaasen The Black Stallion was a good book. I also read The Whipping Boy and Heidi when I was younger. Unfortunately, I somehow misplaced my copy of Heidi, and I doubt I will find it. =( Book #4: Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
Book #5: Heidi by Johannah Spyri Most editions of Heidi's Children are correctly entered as written by Charles Tritten—Johanna Spyri's translator, she being the author of Heidi. However, a couple of editions are marked with Spyri as the author.
How do I fix this to combine the ones incorrectly attributed with the ones ... ... line for re-reading: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Complete Works of William Shakespeare, and Heidi. I'm going to guess Heidi by Johanna Spyri. It's been a looonng, long time since I read it but it's worth a try.
ETA - except it says Australian Alps, so it's not. I need to read things more carefully. ... all the time -- I inherited her Nancy Drew books from the 30s; the first significant book I remember her reading to me was Heidi when I was about 5 (I then read it myself every year for about ten years). We shared silly books from the library in the 60s -- the one that sticks in my mind is Pr ... ... that I remember reading as a child
The Count of Monte Cristo I loved this book.
The Three Musketeers
Pinocchio
Heidi
Dora by Johanna Spyri - another orphan tale
Anderson's Fairy Tales
The Complete Stories of the Brothers Grimm
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by SEL ... Children's Lit: Pippi, of course, and Heidi -- I read it every year for about ten years when I was a kid. And Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden
YA -- Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables -- though she did get a bit wet in the later novels in the series.
Classics -- the Wife of Bath in the Ca ... Now that I think about, I did read a lot of children's literature from outside the U.S. Pippi Longstocking, Heidi and Jules Verne were all staples. I definitely remember knowing that Heidi was Swiss and Jules Verne was French, but that didn't stand out as special to me; it just ... ... hero. I remember wanting to live where kids could have their own houses and money, and have a pet monkey. I, too, loved Heidi. My memory of it is of the descriptions of the countryside. The idea of flowers growing rampant was indeed very foreign to an Arizona kid! ... of Chincoteague, the Black Stallion, Indian Paint - yes, there is a theme there). But I have a strong memory of Heidi and The Swiss Family Robinson - perhaps those were remnants of my Swiss grandfather - as well as Jules Verne.
... apparently doesn't exist in LT), The Secret Garden, All-of-a-Kind Family. Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, The Wizard of Oz and The Bobbsey Twins were all childhood companions.
My mother, father, and stepmother were all big readers, and with one exception, I was ... ... apparently doesn't exist in LT), The Secret Garden, All-of-a-Kind Family. Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, The Wizard of Oz and The Bobbsey Twins were all childhood companions.
My mother, father, and stepmother were all big readers, and with one exception, I was ... ... of the books she read as a child, like Anne of Green Gables and the Billabong books by Mary Grant Bruce, as well as Heidi and Pollyanna and What Katy Did. All of thesecontributed to my love of classics, particularly 19th century fiction.
Dad got me started on some great Australian ... ... daughters (7 & 11), and I love to buy them books. With my older daughter, she has loved some books that I didn't warm to (Heidi, A Wrinkle in Time), and I've tried to get her to read some books that she has found boring (The Diary of Anne Frank--I'm still working on her with this one, Hele ... ... Dragon
Dora the Explorer
Jack and the Beanstalk
Rumplestiltskin
Rapunzel
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Heidi
Pipi Longstocking
etc etc
Just checking to make sure I have all the "classics" covered :) I credit my late mother for my love of reading. She read to us each nite at bedtime. I remember her reading Heidi, Black Beauty: the story of a horse, A Secret Garden, and many others over those childhood years. The only complaint I ever had was that she would only read a chapter of two a ... ... Nick Hornby
7. Dirty Work Stuart Woods
8. Deadly Embrace Jackie Collins
9. Remember When Nora Roberts/JD Robb
10. Heidi Johanna Spyri
11. Murder Suicide Keith Ablow
12. Creole Fires Kat Martin
13. Pandora Anne Rice
14. Another Summer Georgia Bockoven
15. Cruel and Unusual ... No, my oldest book was from 1956 which was a hardbound book for Heidi. I read it and was disgusted by the story so I just got rid of it.
The person below me is heading off to bed. ... have told me not to give up on him, but after that book, I'm afraid of his others.
I also suggest that no one read Heidi. The book was just way over-the-top. How can a little girl have THAT much power over people as to healing the sick and so on. Whatever! Jewel of the Nile
Nine and a Half weeks
Heidi
Goldfinger
Blade ... Woods (*****)
8. Deadly Embrace by Jackie Collins (***)
9. Remember When by Nora Roberts (***)
10. Heidi by Johanna Spyri (**)
11. Murder Suicide by Keith Ablow (*****)
12. Creole Fires by Kat Martin (***)
13. Pandora by Anne Rice (***)
14. Anoth ... ... went on to Swallows and Amazons, Narnia, anything by Kipling. Oh, and somewhere in there I read (many many times) the three Heidi books and the two (or three, I don't remember) Bambi books. I guess only two - Bambi and Bambi's Children.
I still have a lot of those, and still read some of ... ... not it. I remember taking it out of the school library in 3rd or 4th grade, so around 1974.
I also really enjoyed Heidi, Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys and the occasional Nancy Drew. Swallows and Amazons by Ransome;
Island of Adventure, Mountain of Adventure, etc., by Enid Blyton;
Little House on the Prairies series by Wilder;
Nancy Drew by Keene;
The Hardy Boys *high fives, Tropics*
Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery;
Narnia Chronicles;
Nigel Tranter ... Heidi. I don't know how I forgot that. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (All that calcium)
Death of an Old Goat by Robert Barnard
Lizzie Borden (no author - newspaper accounts)
The Cream of the Jest
by James Branch Cabell
... the one with the poem with "You mustn't go down to the end of the town..." - ah, When We Were Very Young. I still have Heidi, and at one point I had Heidi Grows Up and Heidi's Children - I gave them to a young cousin of mine a few years ago. The Story of Babar - that was one read to ... When I was a kid 'Heidi' made me want to go to Switzerland. When I finally got there i walked in the mountains and it was just as though the book had come to life. I've had a cow-bell hanging in my trees for the 32 years since then lol. ... thinking of me reading such a thing.
I was ten before I was ready for some children's classics like Peter Pan and Heidi.
By the time I was age 10 to 11, most of my reading was adult novels with a bit of adult non-fiction. However, I didn't give up Nancy Drew at all--until I was ... ... thinking of me reading such a thing.
I was ten before I was ready for some children's classics like Peter Pan and Heidi.
By the time I was age 10 to 11, most of my reading was adult novels with a bit of adult non-fiction. However, I didn't give up Nancy Drew at all--until I was ... ... Granny's Wonderful Chair which I highly recommend. I had a lot of classic ghost stories, ripping yarns and books such as Heidi, What Katy Did and the Little Women series. I also gorged on Enid Blyton and have been re-reading them recently.
I keep mentioning it, but You're a bad ... ... to hearing what you think.
Seems to me there are a horde of Shirley Temple movies which were nothing like the books. Heidi and Captain January for starters.
I liked both Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movies better than the books.
I have always wanted to see some of my ... ... and loving the words "baobab tree" even though I didn't know what it was. Also at that time: Dondi, Crusader Rabbit and Heidi. Some of my favorites that haven't been listed yet are:
Little Women (and the rest of the series)
Black Beauty
Heidi
The Little House on the Prairie series
Peter Pan
Mary Poppins
Tom Sawyer
A Little Princess
Alice in Wonderland
Swiss Family Robinson
Robin Hood
Kid ...
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