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I must I must I must increase my bust My mom got into Judy Blume (because I couldn’t give a poo poo about Johnny Tremaine), and I had the version with the menstrual belts. Needless to say I was dreading getting my period because those belts sounded horrific. Judy Blume wrote Blubber and that book was loving ROUGH. It’s great but it’s so hard to get through. I also watched the Ramona tv show as a kid as well as read the books. It’s how I learned you can eat tongue and name a cat Chevrolet. Beverly Cleary died a few years ago at 104, goddamn! https://youtu.be/mPtGFnIIkBw I have read more Baby Sitters Club books than any human should and I am shocked I remember as much as I do from them. However my all time favorite was Harriet The Spy. “Lady Hitler” is a favorite insult, and god I should get my copy from my mom’s. The Nick movie was also pretty good.
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Rain Brain posted:I had to read Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die in school, which was deeply upsetting (not Red Fern upsetting but real real close). My unhappiness was further compounded by the fact I confused him with Richard Peck and couldn't understand how one person could write a book I hated so much but also could produce the wonderful Blossom Culp series. Mentioning Where the Red Fern Grows unlocked a memory of my fifth grade class listening to my teacher read it out loud. When we got to the ending, it became a classroom of weeping kids. I’m certain doesthedogdie.com came from a kid who read that book.
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Extra Large Marge posted:I read a lot of Gary Paulsen books, mostly having to do with survival in the woods (The Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter) or at sea (Voyage of the Frog). redshirt posted:lol this thread had me thinking of old Johnny Tremaine. I gave a lot of shits about poor Johnny, with his injury and stuck working at a hot, dangerous forge all day. I remember thinking, well, school's not so bad compared to that.... What *did* click with me, unfortunately, were the Little House books. They aged poorly for reasons that are incredibly obvious but that’s ok. I can enjoy the childhood memories of them, and still never once recommend them to kids nowadays, ever. I’m thinking the American Girl series aged possibly better? I did love that they had historical tidbits, shame that the dolls were next level expensive but the books themselves were really fun.
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Feb 25, 2024 21:08
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wesleywillis posted:Aside from calling native people Indians, what didn't age well about them? I've read one of them (but admittedly it was a few decades ago) and I'm down as gently caress with the tv show. There were quite a few bits I remember that stuck out, this article is a decent overview of some (and wow I remember the dark eyes comment! not the minstrel show however) Also holy poo poo I did *not* know anything about the libertarian poo poo: wikipedia posted:Connections with politics
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Feb 25, 2024 22:14
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Another entry in the “some bits haven’t aged well” department, Roald Dahl! I read Matilda several dozen times as a kid, and The Witches was a first “maybe I like scary things” memory. Also I totally forgot he wrote the screenplay to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, no wonder why it also was deeply unsettling. I love love love Quentin Blake’s illustrations as well, they’re so part and parcel with Dahl’s books.
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Feb 27, 2024 08:11
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PhotoKirk posted:Our elementary school had an assembly where the movie* was shown. Christ I remember hiding my head during That Part when watching the movie in class. Like I knew what was coming but still, what a tragic loving story for kids to enjoy(?)
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Technically not a chapter book but I’m ride or die for Uncle Shelby, Shel Silverstein. I remember my mom reading The Giving Tree to me from the library when I was really young, and my grandma got me four of his other books. I found some of his other work, later on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZnjxfm5I3Y skasion posted:Moomins. Especially “Comet in Moominland” and the one about the dad growing up. I revisited these as an adult and the last two are bleak as gently caress, basically modernist novels except all the existential crisis havers are goofy little trolls.  but read some after moving here as an adult and I had to pause a few times to just sorta lie there and think. Few months ago I bought a collection for my cousin’s first kid for when he’s older. I’m gonna make this triste generational.
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Tulalip Tulips posted:I was also a big fan of the Royal Diaries spin off even though I knew they glossed a lot over. The one set in China was my favorite but Queen Elizabeth and Cleopatra's were fun too. I read the Anastasia one of those several dozen times, kicked off my love of Weird Royalty poo poo. Also taught me what abdication and hemophilia means! Just wish they didn’t include the actual pic of where they likely got got and Rasputin, because that introduced to me to a bit of horror. Speaking of gentle historical fiction, let me talk to you about American Girl books and the bonkers expensive dolls. The Pleasant Company knew drat well what they were doing. I had Molly!
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Realizing now that I’ll never recapture the high that is being 9 and reading a new Captain Underpants book. Powerful Katrinka posted:I don't know anyone who was excited to get her period. It was just something else to make us self-conscious and miserable. You get made fun of for having it, you get mocked if you haven't had it yet, boys are loving gross about it, and the periods themselves are terrible, especially at first when they're irregular. Getting my first period in 2002 was just cramps, moodiness, and discomfort, and you couldn’t talk to anyone really about it outside of your mom and that felt weird, because you’re 11 y’know? It was embarrassing if not a bit stigmatized to even acknowledge that they existed. If you used pads you were a prude but tampons had a whole host of terrible, unscientific associations. Any public mention of actual periods were commercials with the blue liquid and no period looked or behaved like that. And they were directed towards adults, rarely teens at best, let alone pre-teens. Again, I really hope it’s less lovely for kids because tying getting your period with entrance to womanhood is a terrible idea on so many fronts. Congrats, everyone’s going to treat you weird, downright creepy or assume all actions are due to “bein on the rag” - you are between 9 and 15 and you’re just to simply ~accept~ this.
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