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Frustratedlady

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17. Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and the Nickodemus series.

Sat Jul 7, 2018, 10:00 AM

Jul 2018

When my children were in elementary, I was told by a teacher friend that those books should not be read by children as they repeat the same words and types of plot. My argument was that those books increased my interest in reading and actually taught me to question or explore events I ran across in my lifetime. My girlfriends and I would spend our lunch hour investigating "crimes" around our school. For instance, who was smoking cigarettes behind stage? Who put the hamster in the teacher's desk drawer...stuff like that. In later life, the habit of not accepting the obvious helped a great deal in figuring things out.

Too bad they don't work with the Golden Glob. I'll never figure him out.

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What did you read as a child? [View all] Cartoonist Jul 2018 OP

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Encyclopedia Brittanica, National Geographic, Anon-C Jul 2018 #55

My favorite book MichMary Jul 2018 #3

Wow.. I remember that book. 1960 for me . likesmountains 52 Jul 2018 #11

Just out of curiosity I looked it up MichMary Jul 2018 #18

I looked too! Used hardcovers are $200! likesmountains 52 Jul 2018 #21

I read all the Nancy Drew books Ohiogal Jul 2018 #4

Beezus Cartoonist Jul 2018 #6

We had a bunch of Bobbsey Twin books MichMary Jul 2018 #20

I read the trixie beldon series. My daughters read them all. My one daughter still has them. notdarkyet Jul 2018 #31

Tolkien and Castaneda - as a 6th grade child thbobby Jul 2018 #5

I missed out. Cartoonist Jul 2018 #9

Oh bravo for you. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2018 #54

The hobbit thbobby Jul 2018 #61

Tricia Beldon was an early favorite and my sisters Nancy Drew series was... Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #7

Trixie Belden, I think that's the name. I read all those, plus Hardy Boys and Nay Jul 2018 #22

Yeah, I had stacks of books in my room and though... Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #26

I used to go outside under a tree to read -- so peaceful! And yes, my bro and I Nay Jul 2018 #28

Yup. All things considered I am so grateful to have grown up when I did... Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #41

Bookworm here, read everything I could get my hands on. lark Jul 2018 #8

Same here. I read practically everything in our small rural grade school library early on. Arkansas Granny Jul 2018 #16

Loved the fairy tales. The yellow book, the red book, Hans Christian Anderson. So many books notdarkyet Jul 2018 #33

OMG, I love this post. lark Jul 2018 #37

Me, too! I am sitting here with a wonderfully nostalgic grin plastered on my face! Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #43

Book lovers unite!! lark Jul 2018 #45

Biographies, mainly and books about dogs-- hlthe2b Jul 2018 #10

Read every biography in the library. Later found out they mostly weren't true. notdarkyet Jul 2018 #34

I was trying to remember that title. lark Jul 2018 #46

All the Little House snowybirdie Jul 2018 #12

I, too. loved the Little House books. Ohiogal Jul 2018 #13

Yes! snowybirdie Jul 2018 #24

Stephen King and Dean Koontz, mostly... Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #14

i love love both of those authors, have all Stephen King books to date & lots of Koontz's too. lark Jul 2018 #19

The Koontz Frankenstein books are very interesting. You'll like them. Zoonart Jul 2018 #27

My mom (an English/Psychology graduate) always Guilded Lilly Jul 2018 #32

Damn, I totally forgot the Mark Twain classics. lark Jul 2018 #36

I'm still a huge King fan, but I've grown to loathe Koontz. Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #50

You'd think a dog lover would have compassion for people. lark Jul 2018 #59

Love my books Bayard Jul 2018 #15

Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and the Nickodemus series. Frustratedlady Jul 2018 #17

I read adventure stories and thrilling suspense novels. procon Jul 2018 #23

I loved The Three Investigators series MichMary Jul 2018 #25

Little House Books and Charlotte's web helped shape me into a vegan mucifer Jul 2018 #29

Read a few Hardy Boys and a bunch of the Encyclopedia Brown stories... Thomas Hurt Jul 2018 #30

Judy Blume, RL Stine...then King and Koontz in early teens backtoblue Jul 2018 #35

Comic books cyclonefence Jul 2018 #38

I went from 'Nancy Drew' and 'The Bobbsey Twins' to historical biographies before my teens Siwsan Jul 2018 #39

I read Nancy Drew murielm99 Jul 2018 #40

"We Were There" historical novels. Hardy Boys, Sherlock Holmes dameatball Jul 2018 #42

"The Mad Scientists Club", "Miss Pickerel Goes to Mars", "The Incredible Flight ... Mushroom Planet" eppur_se_muova Jul 2018 #44

Watership Down highmindedhavi Jul 2018 #47

Great book, but not Tolkien. It was Richard Adams. dameatball Jul 2018 #62

Haha highmindedhavi Jul 2018 #66

Oh okay, very much agreed. Thanks. dameatball Jul 2018 #67

From the time I was 4 everything with words TexasProgresive Jul 2018 #48

YESSS..I hear you. anything with print. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2018 #57

I've found my sister. TexasProgresive Jul 2018 #63

Mr. dixie and I have learned to watch our movies separaely. dixiegrrrrl Jul 2018 #64

The Happy Hollisters Auggie Jul 2018 #49

Hollisters Cartoonist Jul 2018 #60

I'm 63, so Nancy Drew was just about the only game in town for girl heroines at the time. catbyte Jul 2018 #51

Elementary school MyOwnPeace Jul 2018 #52

Nancy Drew. And then I went through my brothers' Hardy Boys! fierywoman Jul 2018 #53

The first "real book" I remember reading Docreed2003 Jul 2018 #56

Books my dad would give me MFM008 Jul 2018 #58

So many books, from the time I could read. PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2018 #65

First, Tom Swift Jr., later Edgar Rice Burroughs Number9Dream Sep 2018 #68