Don´t let them go. If your daughter doesn´t want them... WE DO! (I have all my mother´s , our´s, etc packed up for Jony. ( I have Bill´s Hardy Boys collection..which all of my kids read.) No kids in sight, but he does want to have them. We had the complete Oz Collection, but Mom gave them to her sister. They are no more. I have a few which I passed on to Maya. She said she had to edit for racism (I don´t remember that) Re your comment on the Bertram books. One has to remember the time and place they were written.
Hi Cathy, I'm jealous of people who still have their childhood books. Mine got tossed out when we moved, unfortunately. But in my "third age" I got curious about them, and wanted to know what I liked about them, and how they might have influenced me as a small child. In my day, it was mostly the "Golden Books" that I had. I went on eBay and Amazon and bought as many as I could remember. There is one in particular that I loved, and I suspect it influenced the direction my life took. It was a Golden Book called "From Then to Now" by JP Leventhal. It featured a dinosaur on the cover, but there were several dinosaur books out when it was published in 1954. Inside, the book was all about evolution. Description: "It is a synopsis of the history of life on earth from single celled organisms to humans." One of the opening pictures was a bolt of lightning and a kind of scary picture of dark clouds and rocks, and the suggestion that life began when lightning struck a pool of water (the prevailing theory at the time). Pages after that show the basic biological progression from simple cells to Animals. There were pictures of amoebas, a gorilla, and cave men hunting woolly mammoths. I loved that book! My uncle, a physician, gave it to me when I was six, just barely old enough to read it. So I wound up getting degrees in Anthropology. Now I teach Biological Anthropology (and a few other courses). It's all about evolution, genetics, primates, and cave men. That book may even have influenced my son indirectly through me; he is a microbiologist and one of his projects is the "origin of life." I would attach a photo of the book but I can't figure out how to do it. Anyhow it's on the internet!
My granddaughter turned one on Wednesday. This could not be more timely!
Don´t let them go. If your daughter doesn´t want them... WE DO! (I have all my mother´s , our´s, etc packed up for Jony. ( I have Bill´s Hardy Boys collection..which all of my kids read.) No kids in sight, but he does want to have them. We had the complete Oz Collection, but Mom gave them to her sister. They are no more. I have a few which I passed on to Maya. She said she had to edit for racism (I don´t remember that) Re your comment on the Bertram books. One has to remember the time and place they were written.
Hi Cathy, I'm jealous of people who still have their childhood books. Mine got tossed out when we moved, unfortunately. But in my "third age" I got curious about them, and wanted to know what I liked about them, and how they might have influenced me as a small child. In my day, it was mostly the "Golden Books" that I had. I went on eBay and Amazon and bought as many as I could remember. There is one in particular that I loved, and I suspect it influenced the direction my life took. It was a Golden Book called "From Then to Now" by JP Leventhal. It featured a dinosaur on the cover, but there were several dinosaur books out when it was published in 1954. Inside, the book was all about evolution. Description: "It is a synopsis of the history of life on earth from single celled organisms to humans." One of the opening pictures was a bolt of lightning and a kind of scary picture of dark clouds and rocks, and the suggestion that life began when lightning struck a pool of water (the prevailing theory at the time). Pages after that show the basic biological progression from simple cells to Animals. There were pictures of amoebas, a gorilla, and cave men hunting woolly mammoths. I loved that book! My uncle, a physician, gave it to me when I was six, just barely old enough to read it. So I wound up getting degrees in Anthropology. Now I teach Biological Anthropology (and a few other courses). It's all about evolution, genetics, primates, and cave men. That book may even have influenced my son indirectly through me; he is a microbiologist and one of his projects is the "origin of life." I would attach a photo of the book but I can't figure out how to do it. Anyhow it's on the internet!