Some more favorites

I dug into my closet and found one of the earliest books I received as a present from my Grandma. It's entitled: The Happy Twins by Helen Wing it was published in MCMLXVI is that 1966 or 1956? Anyways its a Rand McNally book, I think what's called an elf-book. I did an internet search and came up with the following: The other book I was thinking about I believe is called Johnny and the Birds by Ian Munn and Marjorie Cooper, illustrated by Elizabeth Webbe. This is another Rand McNally elf book published in 1950.

Some of my other books I enjoyed reading were what the Walt Disney movies were based on. The ones I have read are:

Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter {movie: Pollyanna}
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford movie {The Incredible Journey, original version}
Thomasina by Paul Gallico {movie: The Three Lives of Thomasina}
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers {movie: Mary Poppins}

Now the movie The Parent Trap was based on a book,(according to The Disney Films by Leonard Maltin; 3rd edition), entitled Das Doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kastner, English title: Lisa and Lottie

Also during college I came across a neat book during a Children's Literature class entitled Nothing Ever Happens on My Block by Ellen Raskin. It looked familiar, I must have read it sometime earlier as a child. What's neat about it is that there is a whole story happening behind the main character in the illustrations while (I can't remember if its a boy or girl), bemoaning the fact that nothing ever happens. It's a neat illustration that when we look beyond the end of our noses there's so much going on. Its the detail in the pictures that make the book.

Also looking for two or three books that I had to read in jr. high and high school...I think one's called Mama's Bank Account and the other might be My Antionette . Both are about immigrants, but I'm not sure if the titles are matching the particular stories that I'm remembering...I'll have to check back.

More to follow....feel free to read and comment on the two posts below on my favorite books and favorite Bible passages.