It rained all last night and is still raining today. I love to sit and read in the rain and have been remembering some of my favorite childhood books.
The Boxcar Children was a great favorite. Four children run away and live by their wits in a boxcar. I think the story inspired my recent wanderlust and a fascination with using what is at hand. The books are now a series of over 100 titles; the first one was what I remember.
A Rocket in My Pocket was a book of poems I read sometime after 6th grade. I found a paperback copy a few years ago and its on my poetry shelf at home. I also have a set of the World Books of Childhood, I think they were called, that my father sold door-to-door when we first moved to Arizona. I love the smooth, glossy pages and the poems and stories that I memorized from reading them over and over.
I asked Mike what books he recalled. He described The Waverly Novels by Sir Walter Scott. He had an old set as a child that he kept with him for years. It gives me some insight into his chivalrous nature and sense of honor.
Now, dear Reader, I would like to know what books you remember from childhood. Click on the underlined "comments" link below the post to add your memories.
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