Weekend Assignment: Favorite Children's Books :
This has brought back some happy memories. Reading was my means of escape and i would read anything i could get my hands on. But my favorites that i came back to again and again was books like Little Women, Jo's Boys, What Katy Did, and the sequels. Heidi and Heidi's Children. Wuthering Heights was read five times before the age of 15 and i cried over the same pages every time.
Sadly i cannot interest my granddaughter in these ones, she says she likes books about relationships and reads Christine Wilson books, the only bits i read kids were talking about their crappy family and how bad their life was and that was enough for me. No adventure there. They do like the ones i tell them though and they are always made up, i never know what i am going to say until it comes out of my mouth.
Once i was babysitting for a friend and started to tell one of my made up stories to the kids before bed, but they got agitated as i wasn't reading out of a book and all their stories came from a book. So i told them i had a magic book, put my hand i n my pocket and took the book out, turned every page as i told the story, and they were then perfectly happy with this invisable book.
Oh happy days!
2 comments:
OH!! "Happy Days"The saying alone brings happy memory's to me.It was my fathers favourite saying.I too have many times told my grandchildren made up stories.Then it turned to simple rhymes this is how my journal started,at the request of my grandaughter.I never had a magic book though or invisible one shall we say.What a brilliant idea that was.LOL!! Very good entry I enjoyed this .Take Care. Have a lovely week/end.
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I too have a magic book...I never called it that but my grand daughter loves it when Grand'ma' tells stories without a book. It is an unusual thing now a days...but when I was a child it was done all the time. We didn't have a lot of books, but we had lots and lots of stories. 'On Ya' - ma
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