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When I Was a Child, I Read…
Prepared for the second printing of the Sitting Room 2013 publication by Karen Petersen.
Here are just some of the books that made us the readers — and people — we are.
Helen Aberson. Dumbo.
Louisa May Alcott. The Old Fashioned Girl. Little Women. Little Men. Rose in Bloom.
Hans Christian Andersen. Fairy Tales.
Robert Arthur. The Three Investigators. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. Miss Hickory.
James Barrie. Peter Pan.
L. Frank Baum. Wizard of Oz.
Ludwig Bemelmens. Madeline.
The Book House for Children
Book of Knowledge
Helen Dore Boylston. Sue Barton, Student Nurse. Robert Briffault. Europa.
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre. Walter R. Brooks. Freddy the Pig.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden.
Wilhelm Busch. Max and Moritz.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales.
Comic Books: Archie. Blondie. Donald Duck. Spider Man. Wonder Woman.
Roald Dahl. The Witches.
Jean De Brunhoff. Story of Babar.
Abner Dean. What am I doing here?
Daniel Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
Mary Mapes Dodge. Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates. Edward Eager. Half Magic.
Lee Ecuyer. Zippy the Chimp.
Fables of La Fontaine
Walter Farley. The Black Stallion. Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank.
Elizabeth Goudge. The Little White Horse.
Kenneth Grahame. Wind in the Willows.
Greek Myths
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Johnny Gruelle. Raggedy Ann and Andy.
Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus. Harvard Junior Classics
Het Boek voor de Jeugd.
V. M. Hillyer, A Child’s Geography of the World. A Child’s History of the World.
bell hooks. Happy to be Nappy.
Laura Lee Hope. Bobbsey Twins. Mary Howitt. The Spider and the Fly.
Annie Fellows Johnston. The Little Colonel.
Merriman Kaune. My Own Little House.
Carolyn Keene. Nancy Drew. Rudyard Kipling. Jungle Tales. Just So Stories.
Eric Knight. Lassie. Ruth Kraus. The Carrot Seed.
Theodora Kroeber. Ishi, the last of his Tribe.
Madeleine L’Engle. A Wrinkle in Time.
Selma Lagerlof. The Holy Night.
Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare
Evelyn Sibley Lampman. Crazy Creek. The Bounces of Cynthiann’.
Ursula K Le Guin. The Left Hand of Darkness.
Lois Lenski. Strawberry Girl.
Lives of the Saints
Jack London. Call of the Wild.
Lullabies
Robert McCloskey. Make Way for Ducklings.
Gerald McDermott. Anansi the Spider. A. A. Milne. Winnie the Pooh. When We Were Six.
Margaretta Mitchell. Gone with the Wind.
Mary Louisa Molesworth. The Cuckoo Clock.
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables. Moore Clement C. Twas the Night before Christmas. Mother Goose
James Otis. Toby Tyler--Ten Weeks with a Circus.
Charles Perrault. Cinderella.
Watty Piper. The Little Engine that Could. Edgar Allen Poe. The Bells.
Eleanor H Porter. Pollyanna. Miriam Clark Potter. Squee and the Littlebit Family.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Yearling.
H. A. and Margaret Rey. Curious George.
Alice Hegan Rice. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.
James Whitcomb Riley. The Raggedy Man.
San Francisco Call Bulletin
William Saroyan. My Name is Aram.
Marshall Saunders. Beautiful Joe. Charles Schulz. Peanuts.
Ernest Thompson Seaton. Wild Animals I have Known.
Anna Sewell. Black Beauty. Margaret Sidney. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. Johanna Spyri. Heidi.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Child’s Garden of Verses. Treasure Island.
Frank Stockton. The Lady or the Tiger.
Gene Stratton-Porter. Girl of the Limberlost. Sydney Taylor. All of a Kind Family.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace.
P. L Travers. Mary Poppins.
Hilda Van Stockum. King Oberon’s Forest, Pegeen.
Paul-Emile Victor. Apoutsiak, le petit flacon de neige: Histoire esquimau.
Helen Wells. Cherry Ames, Student Nurse. E. B. White. Charlotte’s Web.
Elie Wiesel. Night.
Kate Douglas Wiggin. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Little House on the Prairie.
Kathleen Winsor. Forever Amber. Wyss Johann David. Swiss Family Robinson. Marcus Zusak. The Book Thief.
Prepared for the second printing of the Sitting Room 2013 publication by Karen Petersen.
Here are just some of the books that made us the readers — and people — we are.
Helen Aberson. Dumbo.
Louisa May Alcott. The Old Fashioned Girl. Little Women. Little Men. Rose in Bloom.
Hans Christian Andersen. Fairy Tales.
Robert Arthur. The Three Investigators. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. Miss Hickory.
James Barrie. Peter Pan.
L. Frank Baum. Wizard of Oz.
Ludwig Bemelmens. Madeline.
The Book House for Children
Book of Knowledge
Helen Dore Boylston. Sue Barton, Student Nurse. Robert Briffault. Europa.
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre. Walter R. Brooks. Freddy the Pig.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden.
Wilhelm Busch. Max and Moritz.
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales.
Comic Books: Archie. Blondie. Donald Duck. Spider Man. Wonder Woman.
Roald Dahl. The Witches.
Jean De Brunhoff. Story of Babar.
Abner Dean. What am I doing here?
Daniel Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe.
Mary Mapes Dodge. Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates. Edward Eager. Half Magic.
Lee Ecuyer. Zippy the Chimp.
Fables of La Fontaine
Walter Farley. The Black Stallion. Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank.
Elizabeth Goudge. The Little White Horse.
Kenneth Grahame. Wind in the Willows.
Greek Myths
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
Johnny Gruelle. Raggedy Ann and Andy.
Joel Chandler Harris. Uncle Remus. Harvard Junior Classics
Het Boek voor de Jeugd.
V. M. Hillyer, A Child’s Geography of the World. A Child’s History of the World.
bell hooks. Happy to be Nappy.
Laura Lee Hope. Bobbsey Twins. Mary Howitt. The Spider and the Fly.
Annie Fellows Johnston. The Little Colonel.
Merriman Kaune. My Own Little House.
Carolyn Keene. Nancy Drew. Rudyard Kipling. Jungle Tales. Just So Stories.
Eric Knight. Lassie. Ruth Kraus. The Carrot Seed.
Theodora Kroeber. Ishi, the last of his Tribe.
Madeleine L’Engle. A Wrinkle in Time.
Selma Lagerlof. The Holy Night.
Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare
Evelyn Sibley Lampman. Crazy Creek. The Bounces of Cynthiann’.
Ursula K Le Guin. The Left Hand of Darkness.
Lois Lenski. Strawberry Girl.
Lives of the Saints
Jack London. Call of the Wild.
Lullabies
Robert McCloskey. Make Way for Ducklings.
Gerald McDermott. Anansi the Spider. A. A. Milne. Winnie the Pooh. When We Were Six.
Margaretta Mitchell. Gone with the Wind.
Mary Louisa Molesworth. The Cuckoo Clock.
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables. Moore Clement C. Twas the Night before Christmas. Mother Goose
James Otis. Toby Tyler--Ten Weeks with a Circus.
Charles Perrault. Cinderella.
Watty Piper. The Little Engine that Could. Edgar Allen Poe. The Bells.
Eleanor H Porter. Pollyanna. Miriam Clark Potter. Squee and the Littlebit Family.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Yearling.
H. A. and Margaret Rey. Curious George.
Alice Hegan Rice. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.
James Whitcomb Riley. The Raggedy Man.
San Francisco Call Bulletin
William Saroyan. My Name is Aram.
Marshall Saunders. Beautiful Joe. Charles Schulz. Peanuts.
Ernest Thompson Seaton. Wild Animals I have Known.
Anna Sewell. Black Beauty. Margaret Sidney. Five Little Peppers and How They Grew. Johanna Spyri. Heidi.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Child’s Garden of Verses. Treasure Island.
Frank Stockton. The Lady or the Tiger.
Gene Stratton-Porter. Girl of the Limberlost. Sydney Taylor. All of a Kind Family.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace.
P. L Travers. Mary Poppins.
Hilda Van Stockum. King Oberon’s Forest, Pegeen.
Paul-Emile Victor. Apoutsiak, le petit flacon de neige: Histoire esquimau.
Helen Wells. Cherry Ames, Student Nurse. E. B. White. Charlotte’s Web.
Elie Wiesel. Night.
Kate Douglas Wiggin. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Little House on the Prairie.
Kathleen Winsor. Forever Amber. Wyss Johann David. Swiss Family Robinson. Marcus Zusak. The Book Thief.
