I couldn’t let this prompt pass me by. Several titles come immediately to mind when I think of my favorite childhood books. For Christmas 1951 my great-grandmother Jessie Agard gave me a hardcover copy of Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses. My favorite poem was “The Swing.”
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
I would read that poem and then look at the color drawing facing the title page. For whatever reason I was captivated by this picture.
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My next favorite book was Tootle. I just loved Tootle, and would ask my parents to read it to me over and over and over again. One time when my father asked me what I wanted him to read and I responded, Tootle, I heard him groan. There were a lot of words and it was long for a Golden Book.
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And then, of course, was Boss of the Barnyard. What antics those animals were into.
I still have these books, as well as other well loved treasures like Ugly Duckling given to me by my first grade teacher, Marian Evans, and of course as I grew, all those horse books.
Thanks to Geneabloggers’ prompts for stirring up these wonderful book memories.
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