other childrens literature

[Claire]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "linlou43" <linlou43 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Dumble dad wrote:
> 
> > I've not read Bunter, but I think I did read one Enid Blyton. 
They 
> > are part of the fabric of childhood in the UK, so you end up 
> knowing 
> > of them by osmosis.
> 
> 
>       I had never heard of Bunter or Enid Blyton until this 
thread. 
> As an American, I started with the Bobsey Twins, progressed to the 
> Trixie Belden Series(Anybody else remember those?), then moved on 
to 
> Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. These were my *just for the fun of 
it 
> reading*. I also spent a lot of time reading and re-reading the 
> Chronicals of Narnia etc. before I started moving on to the 
> *clasics*. While taking a break from a previous job as a 
restaurant 
> supervisor, I was asked if I had gone back to school- I had taken 
> the Illiad out of the library for a  *bit of light reading* (ala 
> Hermione). I was the type of kid whose mother had to admonish her 
> to "Put down the book and do your math home work." LOL
> 
>   -linlou

Oh my god, Trixie Belden!  Haven't thought about those in years.  
Used to have a complete collection of Nancy Drew (as a young adult, 
even).  I still read children's books, they're some of my favorites, 
Madeline L'Engle especially.  I consider JKR's ability to create a 
plausible alternate universe similar to L'Engle's.  I still read 
Laura Ingalls Wilder and Maud Hart Lovelace's Betsy-Tacy books, 
often when I've had a particularly stressful day (which never 
happens, right?).

Claire