I can still vividly recall one particular day from my childhood: I was nine years old at the time. Summer vacation had started and my parents were both working, so that day I got to tag along on a road trip with my babysitter and her family to what was, in 1972, an exciting new shopping experience: "the mall."There at Eastgate Square, at the brand new Coles book store, I saw the most enticing book cover. I'd never seen anything like it... colour...
Monday, 26 August 2013
Friday, 16 August 2013
The Art of Summer Reading: Mercer Mayer
Posted on 09:34 by Unknown
Among all the beloved, memorable books of my childhood, I probably hold no other series in higher esteem than I do John D. Fitzgerald's The Great Brain books, narrated by John D., the younger brother of Tom D., AKA "the Great Brain." Author John D. Fitgerald set his stories, loosely based on personal experiences from his youth, in Adenville, Utah in the late 1800s. For a 1970s kid like me - a child of the space age - these chapter-long anecdotes...
Thursday, 8 August 2013
The Art of Summer Reading: Robert McCloskey
Posted on 08:42 by Unknown
I wonder if anyone else remembers the terrific "Henry Reed" series of chapter books, illustrated by Robert McCloskey. I've mentioned to friends on several occasions how much I enjoyed these books as a kid but have yet to meet anyone else who read them. Yet they were tremendously popular at one time (maybe a bit before my time - I'm not sure). Via Google Image Search, I managed to find scans of several of the original covers. There have been later...
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