Books We Read As Children

[T&C]

  On 4/23/2018 at 8:02 PM, Mark Vader said:

There was a book I read in the 5th grade, and the title of the book escapes me. It was a bunch of stories about various animals living through the winter season in the forest that they all resided in.

 

One particular story involved several of the animals attempting to hunt each other down, all at the same time. Trailer the Mink in pursuit of a rabbit, Killer the Marten pursuing Trailer, and Fisher the Bold pursuing Killer.

 

Is there anyone here who might remember anything like this? These are the only characters I can remember from this book and I can't remember the title of it.

 

I've tried trying to find those names using  google and nothing comes up. Any help would be appreciated.

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What year are we talking?

[Augie]

Henry and the Clubhouse.

 

I used that for 2 or 3 years worth of book reports. I had no shame. 

[4merper4mer]

The Burned Stained Bears

[Just Jack]

Encyclopedia Brown

Hardy Boys

 

A couple others I remember but can't think of the titles, one was a series about a kid and a snowmobile. Another was an adventure one about two kids that find a long abandoned tunnel under there street. 

 

The ones I remember best though, were the illustrated classics....

http://www.greatillustratedclassics.com/

 

EDIT: Just remembered this one, Tunnel Vision

https://www.amazon.com/Tunnel-Vision-Fran-Arrick/dp/044098579X

 

 

 

[Mark Vader]

  On 4/23/2018 at 8:16 PM, T&C said:

What year are we talking?

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I read this book in 1985. I don't know what year the book was written. It was a hard bound book.

[LeGOATski]

I got a hold of that book when I was pretty young. Looking back, I'm surprised my parents let me read it.

 

The stories are typical, because they're iterations of common stories passed down through various cultures. The illustrations are very good, though.

 

This book peaked my interest in the horror genre.

[Saxum]

I started Asimov's Lucky Star series at age 4.  I was a bit of issue in grade school when being asked to read books of "Dick and Jane".

  On 4/21/2018 at 11:41 PM, Buffalo716 said:

 

I’m sure you had the Kama Sutra memorized since you were 15

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Didn't you read the Acknowledgements page thanking him for his input?

[T&C]

  On 4/23/2018 at 8:17 PM, Augie said:

Henry and the Clubhouse.

 

I used that for 2 or 3 years worth of book reports. I had no shame. 

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Is this the Henry Higgins Beverly Cleary Henry? Either way I read those way back, I forget virtually all of it other than the names.

[snafu]

Series of books: Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators

 

Single book: Northwest Passage

 

[Augie]

  On 4/24/2018 at 7:25 PM, T&C said:

Is this the Henry Higgins Beverly Cleary Henry? Either way I read those way back, I forget virtually all of it other than the names.

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Umm, what I know about it at this point is there was a guy named Henry, and there was a clubhouse. Oh, and my mother still makes fun of me for it.... 

Edited April 24, 2018 by Augie

[teef]

  On 4/23/2018 at 9:22 PM, LeGOATski said:

I got a hold of that book when I was pretty young. Looking back, I'm surprised my parents let me read it.

 

The stories are typical, because they're iterations of common stories passed down through various cultures. The illustrations are very good, though.

 

This book peaked my interest in the horror genre.

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this book was the ****.  the story about the guy looking for his toe always freaked me out.

[row_33]

I remember in 1972 in grade two being sent to pick out a book at the school library and read for an hour and write out a half page on what i read

 

i randomly selected the Black Power Revolt, or something in that genre, the teacher looked at my half page writeup in dismay and made sure to see what the kids were actually perusing for the next assignment of that nature

 

 

[T&C]

  On 4/24/2018 at 8:34 PM, Augie said:

 

Umm, what I know about it at this point is there was a guy named Henry, and there was a clubhouse. Oh, and my mother still makes fun of me for it.... 

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This one, I remember it now looking at it, it was actually Henry Huggins:

 

Edited April 24, 2018 by T&C

[Foxx]

  On 4/21/2018 at 10:56 PM, Gray Beard said:

A Separate Peace

Catcher in the Rye

Of Mice and Men

Farenheit 451

Atlas Shrugged

1984

Animal Farm

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)

 

These were all required reading in school.  Outside of school I typically read sci-fi and/or fantasy. I remember one summer during junior high when I read about 20 of the Tarzan, Center of the Earth, and John Carter of Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I haven’t thought about that for decades. Brings back a lot of memories. 

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ever wonder why these books are required reading not only in your neck of the woods but pretty much all over the US?

[Augie]

  On 4/24/2018 at 9:59 PM, T&C said:

This one, I remember it now looking at it, it was actually Henry Huggins:

 

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That’s got to be the one! I don’t want to know what year(s) in school I used that! 

[Augie]

Things have changed! I swear I’m always in the middle of some book now. Nothing @DC Tom would understand, but good lunchtime reading!  (There is zero to be learned from my string of Grishams and the like.....and I wish he’d write faster!)

Edited April 25, 2018 by Augie

[T&C]

Thanks to a cool teacher,  Mr. Shaw... The Hobbit was required reading. That set the bar back then. Once you read that one The Lord of the Rings was a no brainer. Not a trilogy contrary to popular belief. The weed days began...

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

  On 4/23/2018 at 6:33 PM, row_33 said:

Encyclopedia Brown

 

 

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If you have that as well as the Hardy Boys, you could have read 'The Mad Scientists' Club' series.  I always thought there was only one book, Wikipedia tells me there are four.  I wonder if the other three will be as enjoyable 50 years later?

 

One final favourite, 'Ev Kris:  Aviation Detective'.  William F. Hallstead, author.

  On 4/24/2018 at 11:23 PM, T&C said:

The Hobbit was required reading. That set the bar back then. Once you read that one The Lord of the Rings was a no brainer.

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The s***house wall at work had this graffiti, left by a devotee of the saga:

One ring to rule them

One ring to bind them

One ring to find them

 

Underneath that, some wag had written:

And one ring for the ding dong that wrote this!

 

Guess you had to be there.

[DC Tom]

  On 4/24/2018 at 11:15 PM, Augie said:

Thangs have changed! I swear I’m always in the middle of some book now. Nothing @DC Tom would understand

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Why not?  Were they written by @ExiledInIllinois?

[Gray Beard]

  On 4/24/2018 at 10:12 PM, Foxx said:

ever wonder why these books are required reading not only in your neck of the woods but pretty much all over the US?

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Much of the required reading when I was in junior or senior high focused on distopian views of the future.  There is probably some hidden (or not hidden) agenda regarding anti communist or pro socialist or anti capitalist or some other socio-political message involved with many of the books.