Early Book Memory Meme
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catephoenix : Earlier this week, KC Shaw started a meme about an early book memory and asked others to do the same.
I think the idea is to pick one book that is dear to your heart and stands out from early childhood. I don't think I can pick just one. A lot of my early childhood memories lie in books. So I'm going to list, in order that I somewhat recall, the really special ones.
A Little Golden book, The Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise Brown. I could recall the pictures in this book quite clearly all through my life. I have no idea how old I was when I first read it, only that for some reason it made an impression on me. I think it was that the dog wore clothes and that whole idea of a dog that dressed and acted like a human really appealed to me. Happily, several years ago in an antique store, I found that book. It still delights me.
Wizard of Oz. I don't think I ever read the rest of the books in the series, but I loved loved loved the adventures of Dorothy and Toto and her quest to return home.
The Bobbsey Twins. Read most of those. Loved.
Nancy Drew. Jeez, I wish I'd kept my collection. My mother made me for the longest time, and finally I convinced her I'd never want the books again and we got rid of them. STOOPID ME! I think I had them all. Or most of them.
Trixie Belden mysteries. A Nancy Drew clone, sort of. I'm re-collecting them again, although I haven't yet re-read them.
A 2 book set of fairy tales. Hans Christian Anderson and The Grimm Brothers, I believe. I do still have those. I used to play school with them, assigning myself stories to read. In my childhood scrawl, I've labeled the stories as "English" "History", etc.
Reading was a big part of my life. I've read as long as I can remember, immersing myself in those books, able to step into their worlds. I grew up in the country without any kids as close neighbors, so spent a lot of my time with my nose in books. They were my friends and my companions. Mysteries were my first love, although I suppose you could say that my love of Fantasy began early on with that Little Golden book and the Wizard of Oz. I went from Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden to gothic romance mysteries, then to Agatha Christie, then spy thrillers like Ludlum and Deighton, where I remained (with a brief aside to the Grand Dame of frothy regency romance, Georgette Heyer, which I still have a very large paperback collection of) until I read the first Wheel of Time book. I may or may not have read one of Anne MacCaffrey's Pern books by then, I don't recall which came first, only that by the time I read Wheel of Time I was hooked and I've remained in the world of Fantasy ever since.
catephoenix : Earlier this week, KC Shaw started a meme about an early book memory and asked others to do the same. I think the idea is to pick one book that is dear to your heart and stands out from early childhood. I don't think I can pick just one. A lot of my early childhood memories lie in books. So I'm going to list, in order that I somewhat recall, the really special ones.
A Little Golden book, The Sailor Dog by Margaret Wise Brown. I could recall the pictures in this book quite clearly all through my life. I have no idea how old I was when I first read it, only that for some reason it made an impression on me. I think it was that the dog wore clothes and that whole idea of a dog that dressed and acted like a human really appealed to me. Happily, several years ago in an antique store, I found that book. It still delights me.
Wizard of Oz. I don't think I ever read the rest of the books in the series, but I loved loved loved the adventures of Dorothy and Toto and her quest to return home.
The Bobbsey Twins. Read most of those. Loved.
Nancy Drew. Jeez, I wish I'd kept my collection. My mother made me for the longest time, and finally I convinced her I'd never want the books again and we got rid of them. STOOPID ME! I think I had them all. Or most of them.
Trixie Belden mysteries. A Nancy Drew clone, sort of. I'm re-collecting them again, although I haven't yet re-read them.
A 2 book set of fairy tales. Hans Christian Anderson and The Grimm Brothers, I believe. I do still have those. I used to play school with them, assigning myself stories to read. In my childhood scrawl, I've labeled the stories as "English" "History", etc.
Reading was a big part of my life. I've read as long as I can remember, immersing myself in those books, able to step into their worlds. I grew up in the country without any kids as close neighbors, so spent a lot of my time with my nose in books. They were my friends and my companions. Mysteries were my first love, although I suppose you could say that my love of Fantasy began early on with that Little Golden book and the Wizard of Oz. I went from Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden to gothic romance mysteries, then to Agatha Christie, then spy thrillers like Ludlum and Deighton, where I remained (with a brief aside to the Grand Dame of frothy regency romance, Georgette Heyer, which I still have a very large paperback collection of) until I read the first Wheel of Time book. I may or may not have read one of Anne MacCaffrey's Pern books by then, I don't recall which came first, only that by the time I read Wheel of Time I was hooked and I've remained in the world of Fantasy ever since.
