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I was a bibliophile even as a chld. I remember the Freddy series about a talking animals on a farm and the main character was a pig. Also the Wizard of Oz and of course Peanuts
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Annicita
on January 11, 2014 at 11:13 PM
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❈Call of the Wild, Bomba the Jungle Boy, Great Expectations, Swiss Family Robinson, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Time Machine love.BC-A, Bill’s R☸☸st
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BC-A
on January 7, 2014 at 1:33 PM
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I read anything and everything that I could get my hands on, and loved them all. Spent a lot of time reading the 24 volumes of The Books of Knowledge from beginning to end.
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TAPS.
on January 5, 2014 at 7:39 PM
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Mother read us all the Anne of Green Gables Books during the hot Summer days. I thought that PEI was a mystical place, not quite real...and now I have been there and seen Anne's Island.
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Kabu
on January 5, 2014 at 1:17 PM
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the library and the swimming pool were my favorite haunts as a child. i was a tomboy and played football regularly and well remember reading from the children's library a rather feminist book about how girl's sports got little money nor play in the press. when my brother wanted me to practice throwing the football after that i was disheartened.
i live about 2 1/2 hours south of Mankato, MN one of the towns that the Ingalls used to frequent. I don't remember reading her as a child unfortunately, but I did think Beverly Cleary was a gas.
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Carolyn_Moe
on January 5, 2014 at 10:00 AM
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For me, it was Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Clearly, which I read around age nine. The thought to become a writer entered my mind from there.
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FormerStudentIntern
on January 5, 2014 at 9:34 AM
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