Swiss Family Robinson,
Secret Garden,
Little Princess,
Tom Sawyer,
Little Women,
Huck Finn,
and Nancy Drew
they were just the beginning
to my love of books and hours
blissfully reading under the covers
with a flashlight until caught.
Just one more chapter......
please Mom?
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We didn't have a TV in our house until I was 10.
We weren't missing anything as our parents had
a room we called the library as it had shelves and shelves
of books for us to read. The only reason they got a TV
was because Queen Elizabeth was being crowned
and that was an important event that we should not miss!
To this day all of us are still voracious readers as are
all of our children. Our parents gave us such a gift;
the joy of reading. We were very lucky.
very fantastic.
ReplyDeleteyou rocked on this.
ERM - the word is 'crowned', not coronated - excuse my English smile! LOL
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful list of books. I read them too and loved every minute. Reading is a gift.
ReplyDeleteThe true classics of our time... of all time. A wonderful list scribed for the likes of us.
ReplyDeleteA great memory, and an excellent list of books.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind having a TV but I love my books more.
ReplyDeleteLove how you wrote some books within your already lovely poem! Great work.
ReplyDeleteMy magpie:http://verseinanutshell.wordpress.com/2011/05/16/open-book/
Love it! Such wonderful books and memories.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes! Books, books, books! I, too, recall reading under the covers with a flashlight and not caring that TV was missing!
ReplyDeleteI used to have back up flash lights!
ReplyDeleteLove this, brought back memories.
I remember as a kid
ReplyDeletegetting excited as summer
vacation approached, not
for the slack time, or the
idle fun, but for those challenges
our English teachers gave us,
"Read five books this summer,"
and we did, and we do.
Great good luck, indeed, to be brought up with books..your list looks like mine..
ReplyDeleteI love both of these! Thank you for sharing your family history. My family reads voraciously, too. It tickles me that you bought a television for the crowning. That's a good story.
ReplyDeleteyou names a few good ones there that enchanted me for hours...one day i read so much i strained my eyes and thought i went blind...ha
ReplyDeleteAh,a booklover's poem. Brings back memories, my grandmother got a TV just in time to watch the coronation too. Books everywhere though, a great family inheritance.
ReplyDeleteAn uplifting read. C'mon the books!
ReplyDeleteActually, on overnight coach journeys, I've thrown a travel blanket over my head and got my flashlight out to read so I don't disturb any sleepers.....goodness knows what it must look like to some!
Lovely - brought back memories. We didn't have TV until I was eleven - but we had lovely, lovely books.
ReplyDeleteAnna :o]
I grew up on those books too. Together with Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie.
ReplyDeleteI only watched Peyton Place so that I could translate for my grandmother on Tuesdays and Thursdays!
I still stay up too late reading "just one more chapter!" A love of reading is a wonderful legacy.
ReplyDeleteLove Nancy Drew.
ReplyDeleteYou could be writing about me and mine. Nice Mag.
ReplyDeleteBooks are a joy. Every one you mentioned except Nancy Drew, is on my book shelf - they're on my daughter's!
ReplyDeleteI think we are a generation of book lovers - I silently thank my parents for their love of books which they handed down to me.
Great post.
Great list, and yes, a great gift. One of the greatest, I think.
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