Books, Movies, Music & Entertainment - Airwick's Books We Loved as Kids

Have something to add to the list, let me know. :)

I'll start off with my favorite,.....


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Miss Suzy is a little gray squirrel who lives happily in her oak-tree home until she is chased away by some mean red squirrels. Poor Miss Suzy is very sad. But soon she finds a beautiful dollhouse and meets a band of brave toy soldiers.

Me and My Flying Machine

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Last summer I discovered an old barn.
It was full of great things.
There were boxes, pieces of wood.
There were even nails and a hammer.
I could build anything I wanted.
I'll build a flying machine, I thought,
and I started building.
I worked all day.


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Harry the Dirty Dog on youtube :) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAo-f3YIG8Q)

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Be Nice to Spiders now on youtube :) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEfoeILGgWM)

From my preteen years I can only remember some Dr. Suess (Horton Hears a Who, Green Eggs and Ham) and the readers they used to teach us with in school ("see Jane run"). It took me a while to read "real books" (books without pictures with more than one-hundred pages)...I can remember (starting in 6 or 7th grade and into highschool) some of the series/titles:

-The Secret Seven: This was a series of books about a group of kids solving mysteries.
-Encyclopedia Brown: another series of books with boy-genius solving mysteries...the reader was given clues during a short story and a chance to solve the mystery themselves (before finding out how Encyclopedia Brown solved it).
-The Secret Cave: two boys find a cave, adventure ensues. I doubt this was a well-known book but for some reason I remember the title. I explore cave sometimes, maybe that's why I remember it.
-Bill the Galactic Hero: about an inexperieced soldier dealing with a futuristic, space travelling, bureaucratic world. I found this in my high school library. It was the first book I ever read with some adult themes. Probably not a well-known book, but I remember it to be well-written, with "underlying-message" quirkyness (maybe the message was "perception is reality"?)

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ok...i've given this some thought this afternoon/evening....

The Incredible Journey
Where The Wild Things Are
The Call of the Wild
Harriet the Spy

Choose Your Own Adventure

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the missing piece meets the big o by shel silverstein &
bartholomew and the oobleck by dr. seuss

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The Hat is now on youtube :) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLmQyZqdCR4)

The Dead Tree

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not exactly my generations kids books but:

The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
Le Petit Prince Antoine St. Euxbury ( should be read in original french).

and from my early reading list

The Time Machine H.G. Wells
20,000 Leagues under the Sea J. Verne

Danger: Dinosaurs (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/richard-marsten/danger-dinosaurs.htm)
Rusty's Spaceship
Any of Heinlein's Juvenile stories (Have Space Suit, Will Travel, etc) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinlein_juveniles)