Meme: Musing Mondays
Mar 14, 2010 Meme
Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about picture books.
Do you have a favourite picture book, either from your own childhood, or reading to you children?
Intriguing question! Three things came to mind when I read the question and thought back to my childhood (ahh, the good ol’ days, lol):
This was big when I was in grade one; there was actually a queue when it came to borrowing this book from the library because everyone wanted to read about Curious George and his adventures =D They were a lot of fun =)
Now this was my favourite picture book series; I think I’ve read all the stories related to Madeline. She was just such a curious and adventurous girl and looking back, she went against the norm quite a bit, didn’t she? Everyone would be in line, following the rules and then there’s Madeline running off to look at something interesting or whatnot =D
I kid you not, I spent a lot of my time when I was younger looking at maps (they picture-book….-ish, LOL). We had this massive dictionary at home that had an atlas at the back and I would spend my time flipping through it, looking at the cities in each country, even tracing the maps (I was proud of the one I did of Europe). Plus, that atlas was old school so Russia and the former Soviet states were still referred to as the U.S.S.R (made it easier when it came time to tracing, LOL). With the places that interested me, I would flip through this mini-encyclopedia we had and read up on these places…hence why I’m so into history now (On a side note, my mum nearly gave away that encyclopedia some time ago and I rescued it from the box, claiming that much of my childhood pretty much resided in that encyclopedia, LOL).
March 14th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
How could I have missed reading every children’s book out there as a kid. what was I reading???
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March 15th, 2010 at 7:15 am
My daughter loved George and Madeline too!
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March 15th, 2010 at 9:34 am
Nice book covers.
Very cool about the maps. My Dad hung a huge map of the U.S. behind our couch and drew thick red lines every time he took a trip. It was awesome.
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March 15th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Oh, yeah! Madeline! I used to like those books, too.
And I also love looking at maps. Still do. One of these days, I’m going to get a better atlas. The one we have is from the 1980s; it still has the U.S.S.R. and two Germanys!
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March 16th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Oh man, I used to LOVE Madeline!
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