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wow this is the first time i've spoken to someone who knows about it too! awesome

(the extremely shortened version, lol.)

i absolutely ADORED this book when i was little.

the cat from france likes to sing and dance.


the cat from spain flew an aeroplane.


the cat from norway got stuck in a doorway.


the cat from greece joined the police.


the cat from japan had a big blue fan.


but MY cat likes to hide in boxes.

I never had a copy of The Stinky Cheese Man, but I remember reading it at people's houses and loving it haha.

As for My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes, that is the cutest thing ever! My cat sleeps and lays in boxes at any chance she gets.

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yeah i never had a copy when i was little either, i just randomly found it in the library one day and fell in love with it and thought about stealing it all the time lol.

then last year when i was working at a bookshop i found it going cheap on the bargain book table and i got so excited i pretty much bought it on the spot.

this book is also very good, although it's not from my childhood - i found it in the bookshop i used to work in and thought it was spectacular. i bought it cos i was feeling clucky at the time



it was too big for my scanner but basically the point is that the nose feels really lonely in the world because he is without a face - but the pictures illustrate that he actually makes faces wherever he goes lol. it's a really sweet book. and i found the idea of a nose with legs extremely, extremely hilarious.

That's cute

I wish I had copies of everything I read as a kid. My mom gave away most of me and my brother's kid books, but she kept the ones she thought were better.

Jillian Jiggs

I had a Jillian Jiggs doll too, I assume it came with this book.

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I knew the first Mog book by heart until not so long ago as I worked in a nursery and the kids would not let me stop reading it to them. I'd read it maybe 15 times a day.

wow! those are so wonderful. thanks for sharing them <3

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no no never say maybe to smack bunny baby again.

My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes has a new fan

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yay
i wish i could draw like her, actually.

yup! was my fave too as a kid.
As i got a bit older and was able to read better i loved Enid Blyton books especially the Secret Seven... they were far better than The Famous Five

The books that I remember the most all had pretty unique or memorable artwork.
I loved the Serendipity books when I was a little girl. Big pink sea monster with a million spin-offs starring numerous other mythical misfits. http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=HGF&q=serendipity+books&btnG=Sear ch+Images


And those "Scary Stories" collections illustrated by Stephen Gammell:
http://bookology.files.wordpress.com...ry-stories.jpg

I thought the "Hank the Cowdog" chapbooks were funny, too.

aww i remember Serendipity. they just had one copy in our school library and i think i was a little too old for it by the time i found it but i thought it was so cute and i fell in love with the word "serendipity".

My sister and I had the whole set. They're amazing! I made damn sure my sister got them back from our cousins, so she can read them to my niece as soon as possible. They matter. Nitter Pitter!

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"She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea"

Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

"I escaped somehow. Let's go"

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

SO MANY. I love these threads, and I love remembering these books that were so important to me.

Ferdinand the Bull:


Runaway Bunny:


Goodnight Moon:


Here Comes The Cat!


Amos & Boris:


I Am A Bunny:


Petunia:


Shockheaded Peter:


Grandfather Twilight


& so many Golden Books and Richard Scarry and Provensens' books.

I loved Ferdinand

My grandma has Struwwelpeter in German. She used to translate it to me, and it scared me!

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hahaha my friend gave me struwwelpeter for my birthday. it's sooo awesome.

I just reread this & remembered that it was my grandmother who got me into the English version! I think it's b/c I chewed my nails. And because it's a great book. She also introduced me to Gorey's Beastly Baby at an early age.

Purple, Green, and Yellow...

perhaps my favorite FAVORITEST book ever. and i still wish i owned it.


Tikki Tikki Tembo. for in the 80's it was ok to make fun of azns.


Garfield's Furry Tales.

now honestly i hated Garfield as a comic. but, this book made me laugh for days. and only because I think my mom read it to me with sarcasm in her voice. i still own my original copy & as a child i highlighted all the parts that i found hysterical. which are not really that hysterical now, but i like that i was so easily amused.


why do i feel like this post should be an episode of Reading Rainbow.

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death by rollerskates.

the patchwork elephant! i loved that! and when i got older, Summerland by jackie french. that's still one of my favourite books