Damn, that brings back memories. I used to read those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books one way, then go back and read the alternative options. I read all of the Encyclopedia Brown stuff. And is Beverly Cleary the one who had those Henry Huggins/Ramona/Ribsy books? (At least those are the names that I THINK are correct).
The Whipping Boy Tuck Everlasting Great idea for a thread! These titles are bringing back a lot of good memories.
You nailed it. Those choose your adventure books were awesome. Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume, baby! Ribsy The Mouse and The Motorcycle Tales of a 4th grade nothing Then again, maybe I won't. All awesome. Oh, but "Flowers for Algernon" takes the cake. I especially loved Newsradio mentioning it.
Yes to all of these. Also remember Where The Sidewalk Ends and other Silverstein books. Also all of Roald Dahl's stuff. I used to love me some Hank The Cowdog, too. Oddly enough, I never read 'Flowers for Algernon' in school. I read it years later. Great, sad, book.
i've never read the book but funny tbs would show an episode of friends tonight mentioning "flowers for algernon" and then this thread pops up with everyone mentioning it. i remember some book in 3rd grade about being perfect, maybe "the secret of perfection" where being perfect was something like drinking a gallon of tea everyday and just sitting in a room.
I was a huge fan of roald dahl books. I can't remember that many anymore, but I think it would have a different slant if I read it again.
Tikki Tikki Tembo (Not to be confused with Riki Tiki Tavi) How to Eat Fried Worms The Giving Tree Johnny Tremain All the Amelia Bedelia books And there were a TON of sports-themed books by a guy named Matt Christopher. Until I checked his website, the only title I could remember was "Catcher With a Glass Arm", but there were dozens of them. They all dealt with a pre-teen kid that played a sport and had a hurdle to overcome. Couldn't get enough of those. Remember book fairs? Instead of buying real books everybody would load up on those books of mazes. Or "Peanuts" compilations.
His best childrens book IMO was the one that didn't deal in the absurd. I think it was called "Danny the Champion of the World" (Just checked, that was it). It was about a kid being raised by his father. They lived in an old gypsy caravan behind the gas station and garage they ran and it was about the dad teaching the kid how to poach pheasants. Sounds boring, but a great book. And, yeah, reading those books 30 years later is REAL interesting.
Nice! I forgot all the picture books but man -- I remember pestering my parents to get a library card at the local library. I still get a kick out of reading 'Where the Sidewalk Ends". Good call on Choose Your Own Adventures. Also loved the EB White stuff and There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom. Pretty much that was the 80s for me. Putting Optimus Prime against Voltron, fixing the stupid tracks on the Hotwheel racers and saving up money for book fairs.
I forgot. If you forgot and then remembered, you didn't actually forget. The ones I forgot are gone never to come back. I do know that the earlier in life it was, the more pictures there were, until I reached puberty and then pictures came back and I pretty much ignored words after that.
forgot is the past tense of forget so then that means you had forget but now that forgot is also forgotten and so now you can remember with the help of a thread?
But maybe titles others have remembered will be ones you had forgotten. So it works. I read a ton of The Three Investigators. Also, always loved the Lloyd Alexander books -- The Chronicles of Prydain and The Westmark Trilogy. He did other stuff, apparently, which I didn't know about. I used to read a ton when I was a kid, but not a lot of titles are coming back to me now. Maybe there were too many.
Thanks so much! I have been trying to remember 'The Three Investigators' for years now -- I used to love those guys!
