<p>I had the Five Little Peppers Book! Loved it. </p>
<p>I still have my hardback collection of the LIW books, my best friend and I had/have the entire collection memorized. Hated the TV show, it was just not the right casting for Laura- my BF and I knew that WE would be a much better Laura & Mary :D</p>
<p>L’engle; Island of the Blue Dolphins, all great books.</p>
<p>It did make me sad that my DDs, two of whom are voracious readers, never were enamoured of the Little House books.</p>
<p>I have some Five Little Peppers books that I believe originally belonged to my great-grandmother. I loved those books!</p>
<p>One of my enduring favorite books about appreciating simple, natural things is The Secret Garden. I reread that every few years.</p>
<p>“A Christmas Memory” by Truman Capote—was also made into a poignant TV
drama in the 1966 with Geraldine Page and narrated by Capote.(available on DVD.) Reading it aloud was a tradition in my family.
Its about one childhood Christmas during the depression with his cousin, Sook. —Absolutely beautiful</p>
<p>I still have my copy of Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. Every time I make a cake I have a flashback to the scene where the children had to scrounge to find/beg all the ingredients to make a surprise birthday cake for their mother. Complete with the bouqet of wildflowers in the center. It was my sister in law’s favorite book but she’s the only other person I know who also read it.</p>
<p>Wow, I missed out on the Five Little Peppers! Except for a few of the Little House books, I never read anything but animal stories - the fewer people in them, the better. Loved the Jim Kjellgaard books (Snow Dog), Call of the Wild (way too brutal for my taste now), and the Albert Payson Terhune ‘valiant-and-brave collie’ books. Luckily my daughters had more expansive and girly tastes, so when they were little I got to catch up on what I’d missed.</p>
<p>silvervestersmom</p>
<p>I, too, loved The Country Bunny and the Golden Shoes. My first memories of it are from Captain Kangaroo. I remember being struck especially by the picture of the mountains of beautiful eggs. I was thrilled when I rediscovered it as a mother of young children. My kids all loved the book as well ( 2 boys and 1 girl). I used to read in each of their classrooms when they were in elementary school and I always read this book to their classes at Easter time. I loved the strong female character and the single mom aspect and tried to point out to the little girls and boys alike that girls can accomplish great and important things. I also loved how all the little bunnies worked together to take care of things while their Mom was gone!!</p>
<p>I was a bit old for it anyhow, but also disliked the Little House tv series. Bleh. </p>
<p>Re: turning books into movies and tv-- D1 devoured the Harry Potter books, and later enjoyed the movies well enough. D2 (age 10) saw the HP movies FIRST, and has watched them many times on dvd. She’s just now reading the first Harry Potter book, and it’s just not as special for her – she knows the plot too well by now.</p>
<p>D1 (14) also loved the book Twilight, but is not in any hurry to see the movie.</p>
<p>I was in love with all things horse related as a child. Did anybody else read the “Black Stallion” books?<br>
I read all the LIW books too.
How about “My Antonia”? I reread that one about a year ago and still loved it.</p>
<p>I, too, read and re-read “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” and the “Little House” Series. I loved “These Happy Golden Years”. My family took a trip out west, and I made them detour to Walnut Grove and DeSmet. It was very cool to see the real places, and bring home a rock from Plum Creek. But, my kids are boys- they weren’t as interested in the books as I was.</p>
<p>One of my favorite books during my teenage years was “I Capture the Castle” By Dodie Smith. It’s charming. It was made into a movie recently, but the movie missed the mark. The book is back in print, and I highly recommend it.</p>
<p>Also, I loved anything by Elizabeth Enright. The “Melendy Family” series and the “Gone Away Lake” series were my favorites. I still read them from time to time. They may be out of print.</p>
<p>Packmom–I read all the Black Stallion books; as I recall, some of the latter ones got kinda weird (“Black Stallion’s Ghost”, for instance.) I also read the Island Stallion books, also by Walter Farley.</p>
<p>pageturner–I remember Gone Away Lake and Return to Gone Away. Very cool books!</p>
<p>Ah, they’re all back in print! Elizabeth Enright’s novels, I mean. Read them if you can…they are well worth it. They were written in the 40s and 50s, so it may take some convincing to get the kids to read them.</p>
<p>“Vderon, I LOVE the Herriot books! Our sons’ choir got to spend a week at York Minster one summer and we were lucky enough to be chaperones (so got our way paid, but not our sons!).”</p>
<p>neumes- you were so lucky to see that area. I’m envious! Travelling there is absolutely on my bucket list. My Herriot paperbooks are so well loved and read that I am going to have to go the used bookstore and replace them.</p>
<p>silverstersmom</p>
<p>How funny - my parents grew up in Brooklyn and they told us that they went trick or treat’n on Thanksgiving. I never heard the term Ragamuffin Day till now.</p>
<p>How serendipitous this thread is! We just happen to be in DC this week and spent this afternoon in the National Archives. Saw the Constitution, the Declaration, etc. All very cool,BUT, in a hallway in a little case all by itself was a half sheet of paper that was Charles Ingells’ original application for homestead land in DeSmet, SD, made out in his own hand. I teared up.</p>
<p>I like the Herriot books too- but a friend just described to me the Twilight books ( which my younger daughter just read after a summer of being a camp counselor and listening to comments) & they sound horrible.
I can understand addicting- but so is porn apparently.</p>
<p>One of my favorite books that I didnt read until I had kids- was Girl of the Limberlost.
it is even a girl scout patch!
How cool is that?
[Gene</a> Stratton-Porter’s Adams County Limberlost Swamp, Home & Life](<a href=“《闰年2010》 _电影闰年2010 _九号电影频道-热门好看的电影大全-正版高清电影在线观看”>http://www.genestrattonporter.net/)</p>
<p>But how can a “cabin” have 14 rooms?</p>
<p>Try ‘Skipping Christmas’ by John Grisham. The book is much better than the movie (Christmas with the Kranks).</p>
<p>‘A Christmas Story’ by Jean(?) Shepard. I like the movie better.</p>
<p>'24 Days ‘til Christmas’ by Madeline L’Engle</p>
<p>Probably out of print, but ‘Daniel in the Cub Scout Den’ has a couple chapters on Christmas that are pretty good. Makes you happy that you are not the mom in that family.
It was written by one of my Dad’s cousins- Julilly Kohler</p>
<p>lololu–wonderful! I will look up that document next time I am in DC. Thanks! Even now, when I am complaining about the cold, I remind himself of how incredibly cold it must have been in the Ingalls’ various Plains’ households.</p>
<p>“The House Without a Christmas Tree” by Gail Rock. It was a tv special and a book. She also wrote a few books in this series. I am in my 40’s and still read this book every year. I love it. I also love the book, “the Christmas Tree.” It is about a tree that becomes the Rockefeller Center tree and how the person who tended to the tree all the years feels about losing it. Sounds silly, but a true tear jerker!</p>
<p>Oh gosh, anyone ever read Ballet Shoes? There were others, but Ballet Shoes was always my favorite. They just made a movie of it with Emma Watson. I was so excited!!!</p>