The Story Time MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Hey Mumpers!

Now that we’re settled into our new place I’ll try not to be so skurse from now on! PB is just finishing up some training (Logistics & Forklift operation) & has done very well. I am getting things situated & my goal this week is to get the bedroom in some kind of order besides ginormous pile of clothes. :smiley:

Now, as to the MMP, Today is my sister’s birthday, & one of my favorite memories of her is her reading to my brother & I when we were young’uns. We had a collection of Sesame Street books that were our favorites & her Grover voice never failed to crack us up. Mom read Black Beauty, and also some other stories out of a great big Children’s Anthology of Literature that we had growing up. I also liked Dr. Seuss’s Happy Birthday to You, Where the Wild Things Are, Dr. DeSoto, The Boxcar Children, Sylvester & the Magic Pebble, Pipi Longstocking, the Ramona Books & anything by Judy Blume.

What were some of your favorite Children’s Books?

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I loved the Oz and Borrowers series, liked Black Beauty.

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A bunch of books in Hebrew that none of you has heard of… In English I really like a series called “We were there [on \ at] …” Sort of Historical Novels for tweens (which I read when I was about 8 or 9)
Oh, and the standard Dr Seuss, etc. when I was younger.

Yes, I was a dorky kid, reading in two languages before most of my peers had mastered even one… :o :smack:

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Some favorites I remember were The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop, The Magic Chalk by Zinken Hopp, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster, and The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois.

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My favorite storybook as a young child was Fun with Microbes. Yeah, I was born a geek.

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Oooh…nice OP! My favourite childhood book was Jill Tomlinson’s "Plop, the owl who was afraid of the dark, closely followed of course by Dr Seuss. Then there were the Moomins (Tove Jansson), and Kathleen Hale’s series of books about "Orlando the Marmalade Cat.

There are probably lots more, from a very early age I was never seen without a book in my hands! My mum was very proud of the fact that I was allowed to borrow books from the local library years earlier than the usual joining age too.

Oh well, I am at irk so I suppose I’d better go and be productive…

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I grew up on Dr. Suess.

Up, caffeinated, off to irk.

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blurf

will read later

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Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN 'Tis a pleasant 58 Amurrkin out with a predicted high of 80 for the day. It’s supposed to calm back down to highs in upper 60s to low 70s by tomorrow for the rest of the week. Oh and a slight, very slight, chance of rain. We shall see.

I loved, loved, loved all the Homer Price stories as a kid. Special1 I remember those “We Were There…” books too. The Wizard of Oz was and still is my favorite kiddie type book.

Nice OP Pearl! Now go clean your bedroom! :stuck_out_tongue: Yay for PB and happy birthday to PearlSis!

Now I shall have more caffiene and need to feed rumbly tummy. Then, mayhaps, I should purtify. I get to go funeralize somebody I don’t know and need to be at the church house around tennish to see what all needs doin’ set up and ush wise. Fun times! I also thawed out some chikin yestiddy and last night salt and peppered it. I shall fry chikin for dindin cause I want some. Smashed N.O.T. with gravy, steamed squishes, peas and butterbeans and either bizkits or cornbread shall also happen. Just wantin’ some good southern home cookin’ today. Plus also, to add to the fun, tonight is my next to last Vestry meetin’ at the church house. I seem to be spendin’ an awful lot of time there right now. I mean Saturday, Sunday and today. I ought to be extra deheathenated. :smiley:

Happy Monday Y’all!

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Good morning! Yay for our MMP volunteer! I didn’t see any posts after my last and when I woke up, it was way later than I’d expected. :eek: I worried that you were all fretting and waiting to start things! :wink:

Childhood books, huh? Honestly, I don’t remember. I have no memories of Mom reading to me, but since the first three of us were born in rapid succession, I doubt that she had much time to sit and read. There was also the matter of not being able to afford to buy books and not having a car to go to the library even if she had the time…

Once we were a little older and could manage the mile walk to the library with Mom, I remember being enthralled with the Beany Malone series. I remember going to the school library, too - in fact, one year, Nan and I were in charge of collecting our classmates’ books and taking them back to the library - that was a cool duty! :smiley:

When our daughter was born, we had the subscription to the Dr. Suess et. al. book club, plus we bought her lots of books and read to her often. **FCD **was especially animated - he really got into story time! :smiley:

Speaking of whom, he just left for work. I decided not to bother. I could use the money, but I also have things to do here, like laundry and vacuuming. The dishwasher is running already - I had more dirty dishes than I could cram in there - oops! :o

I emptied my kiln and I’m less than thrilled with the way some of the things came out. Half of the penguin spoon rests got sorta warped - I may not bother taking them to the store. The clock faces just didn’t work the way I’d hoped, and even Santa Penguin isn’t as cute as I’d envisions, so he won’t sell for as much as I’d hoped. I do know how I’ll make future Santa Penguins, tho, so there’s that.

Puppeh is on my list. She whined for a full 30 minutes after **FCD **crated her last night. I told him he needs to put one of his used pillowcases in the crate with her - maybe his scent will calm her. She needs to learn that the crate is a good thing. Stoopit dog. :stuck_out_tongue:

That’s all I’ve got for now. Happy Monday!!

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forklift training? This is all the training you need! :smiley: :eek:

As for books, Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators series; kind of like Hardy Boys.

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When I was a tiny nutlet, I insisted on one book, over and over and over again- it was a Christmas one about rabbits. I’ve never seen another copy, but I still have mine somewhere.
When I got a bit bigger, and could read myself, I read all sorts of stuff; my uncle is basically a collector of collections, and used to run the library at the school where he worked from his own book pile. Definitely a fan of Roald Dahl, and Arthur Ransome. I still have a worrying number of them knocking around too, as well as all the Harry Potter and a number of Moomin books (though I never actually read them as a kid- my housemate got me in to Moomins a few years ago, after I went to Finland).

I love well written kids books, there’s nothing better when you’re feeling rotten than curling up with one. I promise I do read grown-up things too though…

Definitely blurfy morning, weather is grey and 'orrid, I badly overslept, and all this talk of childrens literature is making me want to snuggle back in bed with a heap of stories, a hot water bottle, and possibly a mug of hot chocolate. There are though, regrettably, things I should do, being technically a grown up, so I shall instead go do boring things like food shopping, and clothes washing.

I also want to go get more mouse toys- my other mouse, Mina, is going to be spoiled rotten for quite a while (she shares a cage with my housemate’s two, so she’s not going to be lonely). Happy monday!

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Happy Monday Morning!

It’s been a nice weekend, awfully grey out there today.
I have to get ready for my trip tomorrow, may have to go shopping but I hope not. I hate to shop.

Old books… The Billy and Blaze series, Ribsy, Nancy Drew, Bobbsey Twins, anything to do with horses or dogs. I loved to read.

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I also read Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew - I think we got copies from neighbors.

Executive decision made - I’m going to run to the sto’ for some grocery products and some black acrylic paint. Puppeh will not be happy, but she’ll be going back in her crate while I’m gone. Sucks to be her! :smiley:

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I spoke of Homer Price earlier. I really loved those stories! I also remember a whole series of kiddie novels about high school and college football that I read but can’t remember the name of the series. The library I went to as a wee cub was within easy walkin’ distance of ye olde homeplace. It had a kiddie side, a “youth” (adolescent) side and an adult side. Plus mysterious “old stuff” up stairs that one had to have special permission to go and see. Ok, it was actually research stuff and so on but as a kid it was like the big mysterious forbidden place. So, natch I snuck up there as did most of us. :smiley: The trick was not to get caught. You’d get thrown out of the library if’n you got caught. I never got caught cause I was a ninja cub! Anywho, it was the biggest deal when one reached the mighty mature age of eleven cause then you got to go to both the “youth” and adult sides all by yourself! Woo!!! The library also had a Summer Reading Club. When I was ten, I was chosen “Book King” because I was the boy who read the most books. Bow down before me.

Howzzat for nostalgic and rambly?

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My first “real” hardbound book was The Secret Garden. Still have it. Just finished rereading it for the nth time, actually. That’s really a book to read in the springtime, when everything is starting to turn green.

Ah, my coffee is done. Duty calls.

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I have this mental image of Spaz spendin’ quality time in the bathroom with a cup of coffee. :smiley:

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How strange, I can’t remember a single bedtime book from my youth. I know we must have had a bunch, just can’t remember titles or covers. I’ll have to ask when I’m home for Thanksgiving. Knowing my dad it was probably Bertrand Russell’s History of Western Philosophy.

Again Daddy, again!

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No, bathroom time is a couple of hours after coffee time. :smiley:

Holy schnikies, there’s finally an English translation of Staplerfahrer Klause? Joy and jubilation! (Also, Klause is German for Chad? :confused:)

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Just wait until you’re forty. Then bathroom time will be like ten minutes after coffee time. :eek: