Handing down my childhood books.
By marguicha
@marguicha (223107)
Chile
April 2, 2016 6:12pm CST
I have been thinking about giving away most of my books. They use up a lot of space and I don´t read them anymore.
Last week, looking some something else (as always) I discovered a treasure of children´s books. I touched them with love, remembering how happy I had been with them.
Then I thought would my grandchildren be interested in them? And I think, sadly, that they would not.
My eldest grandsons read all Harry Potter´s books when they were little. They would wait eagerly for the next one.
But Vicente is not interested in Harry Potter. He saw all Harry Potter movies years ago and you can see them again on TV over and over. He reads, but he reads other books.
I remember that when I was small, we read lots of adventure books written by Salgari. He wrote about India, yet he never moved from Italy. Some years ago I found them, read a couple of pages and told my best male friend never to reread them. They have aged more than us
Did you read children´s books ? Do you remember a special one? Would your children be interested in them?
Did you read children´s books ? Do you remember a special one? Would your children be interested in them?7 people like this
10 responses
@allknowing (136541)
• India
3 Apr 16
It's surprising you still have books that you read as a child. What else do you have in store? (lol)
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
3 Apr 16
I am a bookworm. And always was. So I loved my books when I was a child. There are some favorite books that I have reread so many times that I keep them in a plastic bag
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
3 Apr 16
I have saved the majority of my childhood books and will pass them down to my children when / if I have them.
I am sure that my cousin's children would be interested in them but I'd rather keep them for my own children.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
3 Apr 16
You could make a selection of your favorite ones.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
3 Apr 16
@ScribbledAdNauseum I still have the whole collection of Cherry Ames. But you are too young to know about them
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
3 Apr 16
@marguicha They are all part of a set / series. I wouldn't want to divide them.
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@41CombedaleRoad (5952)
• Greece
3 Apr 16
This is a nice homely post, and a pleasure to read. Yes I used to read a lot as a child, the library down the road was my main source of information and pleasure. As a child I read all the Enid Blyton books and also a series of books about children who were twins living in different parts of the world. I enjoyed Black Beauty although it made me sad. I still love to read but rely mainly on Kindle now as I no longer live in England.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
3 Apr 16
Thanks, friend. Books are very expensive where I live so we must share them with our friends and family. I don´t like to lend some of my favorites though as they seldom come back.
@rina110383 (24492)
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3 Apr 16
Every time I visit book sales, I check and read children's books. I love reading the books of Winnie the Pooh because of the drawings and the lessons I learn from reading them. If I'll have children in the future, I'm sure they'll love the books of Pooh.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
3 Apr 16
We should have done that. But my youngest sister was still reading them when I got married.
@DaintyD (1101)
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3 Apr 16
@marguicha
Well they still went to a good use then :)
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
3 Apr 16
I have reread some of the children's books and realized how much I had missed when I read them as a child. Others I found disappointing.
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@marguicha (223107)
• Chile
3 Apr 16
It is true. Some of my childhood books are classics, others have no value.
@Ruby3881 (1963)
• Canada
4 Apr 16
The books that have really stayed with me are classics like the Anne of Green Gables stories. One of my daughters really enjoys them, but not the others.
