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RE: Random Games Week 12- "Your Childhood Books!", brought to us by @kristyglas
I love to read children's books but this is an author I've never heard of! Thank you for sharing your love of her books, I will look for them!
I also love "Once upon a time..." books!
**Edited to add - I went looking for her books on Amazon, starting with The Faraway Tree and found several sets of her books. But when I started reading the comments I found they had been 'updated' and republished in 2014. Reviewers said they'd been changed from the original versions, making them more acceptable to a modern audience and especially noting that the names 'Dick' and 'Fanny' had been changed. So now I will be visiting used bookstores to try to find the original versions.
Oh it is really cool that you went looking for her books after reading my post! Thank you! And thank you for dropping by and commenting :) So happy to find a fellow Steemian who loves "Once upon a time..." books too!
Oh darn, they dropped those names? Wished I could lend you my books, though I am missing some in the series. I need to dig further my "treasure trove". They must be somewhere.
And thank you for updating the comment with your adventure. I hope you get to find the original versions. It would be different to read the updated versions knowing they are updated and republished versions.
I was all ready to hit the 'buy' button before I started reading the comments! They were really eye-opening! SO many huge fans of her books making negative comments about the revised versions. Apparently they changed some names and 'British' references, as well as abridging one of the books. I came back to warn other people who might have been as intrigued as I was to read them!
I also use Bookfinder.com, a very good resource for old and out-of-print books. They had the 2012 and 2014 sets. Then I looked for first editions and then hardbound. If you have those then you really do have a 'treasure trove'! They are worth serious money now!
My favorite children's books (as a child) was my mother's collection of The Mother West Wind books by Thornton Burgess. They were lost in a move. My husband collects rare books and he went on a mission to find me a set, which he did, and bought another set for my mother!
I also loved the 'rainbow' fairy tales. But I only got interested in the classics when I was an adult! The Oz books, Alice in Wonderland, The Boxcar Children, can't remember all of them now, but I enjoyed them so much.
Thank you for bringing up these good memories, and giving me a new author to search for!
Wow.. luckily you didn't hit the Buy button! That would have been a bummer. Oh I have heard of Bookfinder.com. I need to check which years are mine. But I think mine is in the 80s. Thanks for letting me know. Ah, I have not heard of The Mother West Wind books, I will check them out :)
Hehe.. yah.. As I grew up, I enjoyed classics like Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables, Pride and Prejudice, etc. Those gave a lot of aaaahh moments :)
Thanks for giving me a new author to search for too! :) You have a good weekend there @donna-metcalfe :)