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Stinky The Clown

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Fri Mar-13-09 10:44 PM
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Okay ... this is just plain off topic ......

Edited on Fri Mar-13-09 11:27 PM by Stinky The Clown

.... I actually tried to hook it to cooking but i couldn't.

Remember those Golden Books from when we were kids? There is an exhibit of their artwork that just opened in Baltimore.

Golden Book illustrators show launches area's literary events

By Dave Rosenthal
March 1, 2009

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Starting this week, you can celebrate the work of great illustrators who made you smile as a kid (and who probably made your own kids smile, too). Tomorrow, the Enoch Pratt's Central Library opens Golden Legacy: Original Art from 65 Years of Golden Books. The show, which runs through May 9, features 60 original illustrations from Little Golden Books. Included is one of my favorites: Gustaf Tenggren's The Poky Little Puppy. An opening reception will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in the Poe Room; it's free to the public. Information: 410-396-5430.
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This is a touring exhibit, so it may be coming to you, too.

I have such very fond memories of being read to from these books. And to this very day, there are a few illustrations that are warm for me as comfort food.

Hey ... there's the food hook! :)

(I soooo wanted to work in that mail car!)

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Warpy

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Fri Mar-13-09 11:20 PM
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1. I learned to read with those things

I'd have them memorized by the third or fourth telling and then memorize which words were which.

My favorite that I remember was the three little kittens who lost their mittens.

It was great literature when I was two.

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Tangerine LaBamba

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Fri Mar-13-09 11:35 PM
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2. The Enoch Pratt is such a great place!

That looks like a great exhibit.

Who, of a certain age, doesn't melt when thinking of Golden Books? I was lucky in that my mother saved mine, so our girls were read to from my books, which then became their children's books.

They were perfect.

Thanks for this.................

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Stinky The Clown

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Sat Mar-14-09 12:05 AM
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3. My brother has all ours

My kids were read to from then. We then gave them to my brother for his kids. He gave them to our cousin (like our brother) who has since returned them when *his* kids outgrew them.

Now our kids are grownups and maybe soon to have kids (??)

The covers are very well worn, but the books almost all survived.

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Lugnut

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Sat Mar-14-09 12:28 AM
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4. I still have some of those.

I've doled them out one or two at a time to my great-grandchildren but there are several remaining. I'm hanging onto those in case my daughter remarries and has any children.

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Tab

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Sat Mar-14-09 04:11 AM
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5. I think those predate even me

I remember the LGBs, obviously (what adult over 30 doesn't?) but even those were before my time.

Goodness, you're old.

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Arkansas Granny

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Sat Mar-14-09 09:16 AM
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6. I used to buy these for my kids. It seemed like every trip to the store

we would acquire a new one. There were several of them that I could recite from memory and if I missed a word, I would be reminded of the omission. When they got too old for them they were passed on to my niece.

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sazemisery

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Sat Mar-14-09 12:37 PM
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7. I have all of mine in storage waiting for grandchildren

I haven't read them to the granddogs, grandcats and the grandsnakes. Just wouldn't be the same.:silly:

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blaze

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Sat Mar-14-09 03:01 PM
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8. You can read some of them here.

http://www.antiquebooks.net/library.html

Select the book, then the "Go to the Book" on the right side. :)

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