TELL ME ABOUT…. in Postcards 4

Discards fill the chair

…your favorite book when you were a kid. Mine was the Secret Garden.

I’ve been shelving children’s books for two weeks now. Boxes and boxes of them come from the library upstairs. All their Young Adult and Juvenile books now live on our small shelves thanks to the new librarian upstairs.

I was raised by a very Victorian mother. She ruled my reading by banning such volumes as the Bobsey Twins….why I don’t know. St. Nicholas Magazine reprints were allowed along with all the classics like Little Lord Fauntleroy. My literary freedom came when I was allowed to get my own library card. By then I had never met all the books most kids had read. I jumped right in to Science Fiction and Mysteries.

Today, wanting to know more about this literature I was shelving and had never seen before, I googled Kiddy Lit. I ended up reading about other’s favorites and loved lost children’s books. Sucked right in. Here’s two links to those sites you might enjoy too.

https://hilaryrobertsgrant.weebly.com/blog/kiddie-lit

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/obscure-childrens-books-reader-responses
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• Himself: Work and got his teeth cleaned.


• Myself: I spent three days alphabetizing the “Y”, and I ended up just shelving instead to get them all up.


• Photo: Mine: The discards from the Konmari Project.


• Reading: DAUGHTER OF EMPIRE…My life as a Mountbatten.


• Gratitude’s: More rain.

Last updated March 07, 2019