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30 Days of Books - Day 28
Aug. 31st, 2010 09:27 pm
Day 28 – First favorite book or series obsession
My first favorite books were Dr. Seuss. I could read Dr. Seuss over & over & over again. My parents couldn't afford to buy a lot of books when I was little, but I would check out every single Dr. Seuss book from the library about once a month & read them voraciously over the course of a week or so. There was also the Berenstein Bears, Richard Scarry - I loved the fact that his towns & machinery looked like real things, not just geometric shapes piled on top of each other in house-like forms; and the Serendipity books - those were a favorite of mine because they featured winged horses, unicorns, and freaking cute bunnies. When Jody went into the Army, I would get care packages from her - she started getting me Cicely Barker's Flower Fairy books - those were probably my first introduction to plants that did things other than decorate a garden or end up on my plate. I may actually have to recollect those.
Looking at some of the more recent books published by the Scarry estate, it's sad to see the minute details have been 'dumbed down'. I even had the 'Puzzletown' play set based on Richard Scarry's world. It had pressboard panel houses, cars, little plastic people (who were anthropomorphic animals - my favorite was an earthworm who drove a car that was a hollowed-out apple), and all could be set up on these green plastic grids in different formations. It had expansions - different parts of town could be added on. I used to combine Lincoln Logs & Legos, along with a wide assortment of little plastic animals & dinosaurs, into the towns. Fantastic stuff :)
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My first favorite books were Dr. Seuss. I could read Dr. Seuss over & over & over again. My parents couldn't afford to buy a lot of books when I was little, but I would check out every single Dr. Seuss book from the library about once a month & read them voraciously over the course of a week or so. There was also the Berenstein Bears, Richard Scarry - I loved the fact that his towns & machinery looked like real things, not just geometric shapes piled on top of each other in house-like forms; and the Serendipity books - those were a favorite of mine because they featured winged horses, unicorns, and freaking cute bunnies. When Jody went into the Army, I would get care packages from her - she started getting me Cicely Barker's Flower Fairy books - those were probably my first introduction to plants that did things other than decorate a garden or end up on my plate. I may actually have to recollect those.
Looking at some of the more recent books published by the Scarry estate, it's sad to see the minute details have been 'dumbed down'. I even had the 'Puzzletown' play set based on Richard Scarry's world. It had pressboard panel houses, cars, little plastic people (who were anthropomorphic animals - my favorite was an earthworm who drove a car that was a hollowed-out apple), and all could be set up on these green plastic grids in different formations. It had expansions - different parts of town could be added on. I used to combine Lincoln Logs & Legos, along with a wide assortment of little plastic animals & dinosaurs, into the towns. Fantastic stuff :)
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