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		<title>That time of year again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 23:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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I believe this was my first day of first grade (yes, I was and am tall). I think my mom is actually applauding the fact that my sister Janet and I are going back to school with our nifty new shoes, socks, and lunchboxes.
I mostly took the summer off from blogging &#8211; but definitely not from writing. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winnie the Pooh and Me &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Pooh Corner friends &#8230; and me (pregnant)!
It&#8217;s still strange to me to think of how much of my life has been intertwined with Winnie the Pooh. While I always had an awareness of Pooh, I don&#8217;t recall reading the books when I was a child. By the time the Disney films (and the first ones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The beginning of my love affair</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
Like many readers, my long love affair with books may have started with a Golden Book! How great to write my name in it &#8230; even if I still had trouble with my Ys. What Golden Book stands out in your memory? I know there&#8217;s at least one.
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		<title>Three Books You&#8217;ll Never Read</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 21:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, these three books haven&#8217;t been banned. They&#8217;re just old and out of print. They weren&#8217;t classics, like many of the books I loved as a child. But as the worn and taped edges of these books show, they were well-loved. If you want to read them, you&#8217;ll have to come to my house!
But the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gentle Bull</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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How could anyone who grew up in the 50s (or earlier) fail to list Ferdinand the Bull as a favorite book? Everyone loved Ferdinand. The tale of a peace-loving bull who loves smelling the flowers more than fighting in the bullring, The Story of Ferdinand was a popular book for many years and was made into an animated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The China Syndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have such mixed feelings about this beloved book, The Five Chinese Brothers.  By today&#8217;s standards and perhaps by any standards, it promotes a racial stereotype (one that was acceptable in the 1950s). I didn&#8217;t know anything about that. I found the story and illustrations fascinating and absorbing. I always ran to find this book on the library [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Changing World of Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was jarred when it dawned on me a little while back that many children aren&#8217;t being taught nursery rhymes and fairy tales any more. Stories and rhymes that have been passed on for hundreds of years and that have cultural significance may, indeed, die. Things change, of course. But why?
In this case, I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Triplets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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This is a book I actually owned, which means it must have been a gift. Most book gifts came from my paternal grandmother, from whom I inherited my love of books and playing piano. I loved the idea of this book more than the book. I liked the title, liked the illustrations but I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic of Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up in the 50s and 60s, like most middle class families, we didn&#8217;t own a lot of books. I&#8217;m sure there were bookstores in downtown St. Louis, but in the suburbs, which were relatively new, they weren&#8217;t around yet. You could buy books at a department store, though. I remember being taken to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The arrival of summer brings back so many wonderful childhood memories: long days of playing in the yard with friends,  playing games inside the house with friends, swimming, roller skating, jump rope, hopscotch,  jacks,walking to the movies, and reading! I read all year, but there was even more time for books in the summer. My [...]]]></description>
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