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Anybody like these, titles like Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Boxcar Children, Happy Hollister's, The Bobbsey Twins. The list goes on. Not to mention the Little House books. Any favs, share them here.
Trixie Belden series, Donna Parker series, Betty Cavanaugh books, the Beverly Cleary Ramona books, all the Alcott books, Anne of Green Gables, Calico Captive, Pollyanna, Swiss Family Robinson, Charlotte's Web, the Ginnie and Geneva books, and Tom Sawyer (although i think that one is just as much for adults as kids!).
I also liked the Little House books and Nancy Drew.
My kids (born in 1993 and 1991) also liked Indian in the Cupboard, and my husband liked the C.S. Lewis "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" series, as well as The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy when he was a boy.
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I remember reading all of Nancy Drew and the Little House books. I also liked A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. There was some book about a dolphin I read in elementary school that I loved. I can never recall the title or author.
I have read so many books for so long that they all run together.
Anybody like these, titles like Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Boxcar Children, Happy Hollister's, The Bobbsey Twins. The list goes on. Not to mention the Little House books. Any favs, share them here.
Once upon a time I liked them. My favorites were the Bomba The Jungle Boy books. These were supposedly written by Roy Rockwood, but in fact were produced by the various writers at the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the same group that produced the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books (and, yes, Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon were entirely fictional as well).
The Little House books are actually decent literature. The others? Not so much. But I believe in young children reading and loving to read, and if crap books serve as 'gateway writing' that leads them to more serious writing, then it's all good...
Vintage books aren't the same thing as series, you know.
FROM MERRIAM WEBSTER ON-LINE DICTIONARY:
Full Definition of VINTAGE
1
of wine : of, relating to, or produced in a particular vintage
2
: of old, recognized, and enduring interest, importance, or quality : classic
3
a : dating from the past : old
b : outmoded, old-fashioned
As the series mentioned in the above posts contain books, I would say that the books in the series ARE vintage. (jmho)
I remember reading all of Nancy Drew and the Little House books. I also liked A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. There was some book about a dolphin I read in elementary school that I loved. I can never recall the title or author.
I have read so many books for so long that they all run together.
Are you, by any chance, thinking of Island of the Blue Dolphins? I don't think it was really about a dolphin, but this was a very popular book in the 1960's.
Vintage books aren't the same thing as series, you know.
True....I was thinking that the OP meant something along the lines of rare or antique books for children.
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