Look What I Found!

Well, I didn’t really “find” these, I knew where they were all the time. But because I am going through some stuff and “right sizing” I thought, before I pack them away in a box, I would show you some of the favorite books that the progeny and I read when they were growing up. Don’t panic progeny, I am not getting rid of these, I am just packing them up.

Television was pretty strictly monitored when the progeny were growing up, they had an hour or so a day at one point I think. They went outside to play. I didn’t care if they got dirty. I didn’t really care if they dug holes in the ground and “planted” a garden with the weeds that they dug up from some place else. I didn’t care that they left the garden hose running so that the water ran down the driveway and out to the street so that they could “drown out” the ants. I cared that they were outside playing and not parked in front of the electronic babysitter.

The other thing that we did a lot of is read books. You can’t tell me that you are surprised about that are you? Hello!

Here are some of our favorites from years past. We can all quote various lines from these at the drop of a hat.

I found the first of these “Little Miss” and “Little Mr.” books at a local discount store. I believe Mr. Messy was our first one. Once we had one then we needed more. I went back the next day and bought all the different titles that they had. HHBL and I agree that our favorite has always been Little Miss Chatterbox. She just reminded us of someone…….who could that be? Cartoon Girl.

  These books are sort of the least beat up of the Little Golden Books that we owned. Some of them have been loved til they are tattered and worn. And isn’t that just what a children’s book would want don’t you think? We also had a video that about the characters from the Little Golden Books. I think that they had to save Harbor Town. Again, we can quote and often do quote lines from that video.

“Harbor Town would be flooooooooded”
”Tawny, Scrawny Lion will overcome alllllllllll obsticles”

These are such sweet books. I actually had to sit down and read them again today. Wish I could remember where I purchased them but that memory is long gone.

Alpha Male what are you doing and why haven’t you fed me my wonderful meat and sawdust nuggets bathed in warm tap water?

See what I mean about loving them to pieces. This happens to be The Cat and the Hat Comes Back.

By the way Deb, nice Bokeh if I do say so myself. Patting self on back.

And then there was the ever popular Millie’s Secret. “Shhhhhh, Millie’s got a secret”. I hate to break it to you but after about the 1000th read the secret got a bit old. The dog was having puppies. There now you know and you don’t have to go out and get the book. This wasn’t my particular favorite but it was a hit with the progeny.

Oh yes, we loved the one and read it over and over and over and over……….
And this was our favorite line.

 And finally there were these. This is just a small, and I do mean small, sampling of the Mercer Mayer books that we have. I love these.

Well now I may have to just sit down and read through some of these for old times sake.

Happy times my friends, happy times.

What were your favorite books when you were growing up?