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Never Tease a Weasel was a family favorite growing up, but I've met very few people who've ever heard of it: Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves: Never Tease a Weasel The illustrations are kind of dated, 60s-ish looking, but my sisters, parents and I will quote from it all the time ("Never tease a weasel/not even twice or thrice/the weasel will not like it/and teasing isn't nice.")
Loved that book as a kid!
I remember reading "The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew" and liking it.
Betsey, Tacy & Tib books by Maude Hart Lovelace; the story of three friends from early childhood to young womanhood set in the turn of the last century.
I loved Betsy, Tacy and Tib! My mom was a school teacher so I had to wait for her to finish at the end of the day before we could go home and I would always wait in the library. I know exactly on the shelf where those books were!
Some of my favorites were by Carol Ryrie Brink - Baby Island and Two are Better Than One.
In Baby Island, two young girls and four babies survive a shipwreck. The girls take care of the babies through all the perils and adventures that you would find on a tropical island. Not very realistic, but full of spunk and can-do attitude!
Two are Better than One was the story of two best friends who make up stories for their little pocket dolls, Lester and Lynette. More spunk!
I had a book and I don't remember the name (Can anyone help out?)--it was about a Grandpa Bunny who would paint beautiful eggs. One day he died, and the sky was painted just as beautifully as his eggs. It was a book to teach about death to children. I don't remember the name but I still remember how wonderful it was.
I also loved, loved, loved, "THe Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Haunted House" by Mary Chase about a snotty girl who actually goes back in time. Original title was Wicked Pigeon Ladies in the Garden"
My sister and I read The Lonely Doll over and over. I still remember the cover of it. Only as an adult did I find that it was not an obscure book and was part of a series. http://www.booktryst.com/2011/10/mos...ldrens.htmlure s
One of my very favorite books was called The Wednesday Witch, about a witch who rode a vacuum cleaner. I read it so many times, and wish I'd held on to it for my kids.
Just looking at the photo of it from Amazon brings back so many memories.
Don't know about their level of obscurity, but three of my favorites were: The Pushcart War, a alt-future telling of a "historical" battle between trucks and pushcarts in NYC
ROM Spaceknight was an awesome comic book series.
In general there is no comparison between the wordy, plot-laden
comics of yesteryear with the junk they put out today.
There are always exceptions, however.
I loved Betsy, Tacy and Tib! My mom was a school teacher so I had to wait for her to finish at the end of the day before we could go home and I would always wait in the library. I know exactly on the shelf where those books were!
I am so very pleased that I am not the only one!
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