
02-04-2006, 05:11 PM
|
 |
Mod with Bite
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Vegemite....nuff said!!
Posts: 13,502
|
|
Clifford ~ The big red dog
The Hungry Caterpillar
Charlottes Web....i so loved that book
Of Mice And Men ~ it was a good book too
Didnt read David Eddings at school....but love his books
ok...i'm curious...what the hell is the book about tigers turning into butter? *LOL*
__________________
Equality for all
|

02-04-2006, 07:41 PM
|
 |
♦*♥Moderatrix♥*♦
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: on top of it all
Posts: 50,568
|
|
|

02-04-2006, 07:45 PM
|
 |
Mod with Bite
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Vegemite....nuff said!!
Posts: 13,502
|
|
oh...interesting story...in an odd way *L*
__________________
Equality for all
|

02-04-2006, 07:56 PM
|
 |
♦*♥Moderatrix♥*♦
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: on top of it all
Posts: 50,568
|
|
|

02-04-2006, 08:00 PM
|
 |
Mod with Bite
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Vegemite....nuff said!!
Posts: 13,502
|
|
Oh i remember the Little Golden Books version lol.....i used to have that one *LOL*any wonder it was vaguely (and i mean really vaguely) familiar......but i remember the cover vividly
__________________
Equality for all
|

02-04-2006, 10:44 PM
|
 |
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: North Australia
Posts: 17,687
|
|
I remembered the Little Golden Book cover.
Racist? Bullshit!
__________________
Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating
|

02-04-2006, 11:32 PM
|
 |
Made in England
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 8,180
|
|
I even had a gollywog when I was a kid...
|

02-05-2006, 12:47 AM
|
 |
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: North Australia
Posts: 17,687
|
|
They've talked about ceasing production of black jelly babies.
Noddy was banned from some libraries because the naughty comic relief was golliwogs, taken by some as racist.
They haven't banned "Merchant of Venice" because it vilifies Jews (yet).
__________________
Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating
|

02-05-2006, 08:45 AM
|
 |
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: T.O.
Posts: 20,828
|
|
When I was 5 or 6, I was reading Thumbelina outside. I got distracted & went off to do something else. Being Newfoundland & the weather ever-changing, it started to rain & my library book was ruined. I was devastated & thought my mother & the librarian would be angry but it worked out. My mother bought a nicer copy of the book for the library and that was that.
I loved so many books . . . the Bobbsey (sp.) twins, moving on to Nancy Drew, Encyclopedia Brown, all the Judy Blumes, Beverly Cleary & Charlotte's Web like so many. I also read Animal Farm when I was really young & didn't fully understand it but it kickstarted me reading & writing satire for the rest of my life.
|

02-05-2006, 09:46 AM
|
 |
Turn it up!
|
|
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Music City
Posts: 9,293
|
|
Lil, I just recalled an episode from high school that I suppose might loosly tie in with this topic & the "LBS" thing, as well you might find of interest as a techer. In 10th grade English, the whole class was assigned reading Huck Finn (certainly a classic of American literature), couple months later our teacher told us she had just found that it had just gone on the list of forbidden books in school (mostly for the use of the "N" word), & she begged us all to not mention to ANYBODY that she had assigned it...I had found the book fairly entertaining, & while I can understand how some might find it offensive, I thought the book was the OPPOSITE of racist (the boys were befriending a slave & helping him escape, after all), & Twain was just using the authentic language that would have been used by a Missouri boy in the 1800's...
__________________
Plug me into somethin'
If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.
No good deed ever goes unpunished
Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.
|

02-05-2006, 07:40 PM
|
 |
Loungin' Around
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: West Coast
Posts: 30,587
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lilith
What did you read by Lois Lowry that made you laugh??? All the books I have read are so deep, just curious.
|
The Anastasia series in particular...and I think they now have a series for Anastasia's little brother that's more targeted to boys.
http://www.loislowry.com/books.html
__________________
Life is too short not to love and be loved....preferably multiple times in one night.
I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them. ~ Jay McInerney
|

02-05-2006, 07:56 PM
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
Posts: 541,353
|
|
When books are burned (banned) in the end people will be burned too.
Heinrich Heine
German critic & poet (1797 - 1856)
__________________
Eudaimonia
|

02-05-2006, 08:03 PM
|
 |
~getting by~
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: South of the Mason Dixon
Posts: 3,937
|
|
Not so much a chapter book, but I enjoyed the Shel Silverstein books - Where the Sidewalk Ends ... and the other one, the name escapes me at the moment.
|

02-05-2006, 09:25 PM
|
 |
♦*♥Moderatrix♥*♦
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: on top of it all
Posts: 50,568
|
|
Thanks osuche! I had only read the last ones on that list and am surprised to see she wrote so very different.
|

02-05-2006, 09:33 PM
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Home.
Posts: 22,127
|
|
cue for treason (grade 6)
__________________
If someone offers a penny for your thoughts and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny??
Don’t let the hardship of the past, take away from the joy of the present
|
Thread Tools |
Search this Thread |
|
|
Display Modes |
Rate This Thread |
Linear Mode
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:58 PM.
|