Friday, June 10, 2011

Outgrow????

Someone once asked me, "When are you going to outgrow those baby books?" (meaning children's books in general).
I felt that that was rather a rude question, but I responded as politely as I could:
"You outgrow your clothes. You... hopefully... outgrow bad habits. You don't outgrow good books.

4 comments:

kkollwitz said...

I must admit I still read this one:

http://www.amazon.com/When-We-Were-Very-Young/dp/0140361235/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1307898596&sr=1-1

Barb Schoeneberger said...

I have paperbacks of all of L. Frank Baum's "Wizard of Oz" series, and the "Old Mother Westwind" books about animals that talk. They are very special. And all the Laura Ingalls Wilder books. From time to time I take them up to flee the present world.

Rochelle said...

Barb,
I'll never forget the impact of this sentence in By The Shores Of Silver Lake:
"Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind."
I cried for a long time.
I'm going to post something about the books, and the TV show.

Rochelle said...

@ kkollwitz
I love Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner.
Annis Duff wrote, in her delightful Bequest of Wings: A Family's Pleasures With Books,
"Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at
Pooh Corner are infectious books. I still resent the reviewer
who dismissed them with "Tonstant Weader fwowed up.""

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