Comments on: Classic Children's Books By The Decade: 1950s https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/classic-childrens-books-by-the-decade-1950s-the-childrens-bookshelf/ Screen-Free Activities and Books for Kids Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:56:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Erica https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/classic-childrens-books-by-the-decade-1950s-the-childrens-bookshelf/#comment-445299 Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:45:44 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=5#comment-445299 In reply to mspence.

Thanks for your comment. The goal of my classics lists is to (hopefully) introduce readers to new-to-them books. I think it's fair to say everyone has already heard of CS Lewis' wonderful books.

]]> By: mspence https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/classic-childrens-books-by-the-decade-1950s-the-childrens-bookshelf/#comment-445295 Fri, 10 Jun 2022 10:56:57 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=5#comment-445295 What about the Chronicles of Narnia?

]]> By: Joyce Fielder https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/classic-childrens-books-by-the-decade-1950s-the-childrens-bookshelf/#comment-444200 Mon, 11 Apr 2022 03:25:59 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=5#comment-444200 I know this is a long shot. I checked a book out of my elementary school library in the 50’s or 60’s that I would love to find. I just don’t remember the title or author, but it was a blue hardback . It was about a young boy traveling on a train to a dude ranch, going to Montana or Wyoming. I remember reading about him looking out the window and thinking about being homesick, but what a great time he had once at the ranch.

]]> By: Dani https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/classic-childrens-books-by-the-decade-1950s-the-childrens-bookshelf/#comment-441956 Sat, 15 Jan 2022 04:44:48 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=5#comment-441956 In reply to rbr.

The Twilight Barking is actually the sequel!

]]> By: Louise Tate https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/classic-childrens-books-by-the-decade-1950s-the-childrens-bookshelf/#comment-436824 Thu, 08 Jul 2021 02:29:11 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=5#comment-436824 Has anyone heard of a book about in the 1940s or 1950s called The Blue Marble about magic?

]]> By: Heather https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/classic-childrens-books-by-the-decade-1950s-the-childrens-bookshelf/#comment-435516 Thu, 06 May 2021 10:17:37 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=5#comment-435516 In reply to Linda.

Could it be the Adventures of Maya the Bee by Waldemar Bonsels or City of the Bees by Frank S. Stuart?

]]> By: Rebecca Niles https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/classic-childrens-books-by-the-decade-1950s-the-childrens-bookshelf/#comment-435465 Mon, 03 May 2021 03:12:17 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=5#comment-435465 I am looking for a soft cover multi story and poem book that I had in the sixties. The cover was blue and the only two poems I remember started with"I met a giant in the lane" And "Look said Tommy, look said he, see what I've found.

]]> By: Denise Martin https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/classic-childrens-books-by-the-decade-1950s-the-childrens-bookshelf/#comment-434808 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:38:49 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=5#comment-434808 Wow.. what a great site! I found this while trying to find a copy of my childhood called "Pam's Secret Little House" 1950-19664??... I cant remember the authors name!!

]]> By: Erica https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/classic-childrens-books-by-the-decade-1950s-the-childrens-bookshelf/#comment-434418 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:13:04 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=5#comment-434418 In reply to Kris.

I believe you are thinking of My Father's Dragon.

]]> By: Kris https://www.whatdowedoallday.com/classic-childrens-books-by-the-decade-1950s-the-childrens-bookshelf/#comment-434403 Tue, 02 Mar 2021 22:59:56 +0000 https://whatdowedoallday.com/?p=5#comment-434403 I am trying (in vain) to remember the name of a series of children’s books (or perhaps one long chapter book) that one of my grade school teachers (in the late 50s) read to us. As I recall, it was about a few kids who sneaked off at night to go on adventures. They always took an unusual supply of things (different each time), and used up every item before returning home. They took things like 7 small bags of cookies.......then used them for 7 hungry crocodiles, so they could get across a river. Or 5 pieces of rope for 5 clever monkeys. Always lots of wild animals.

Does anyone have ANY memory of such a book (or books). I have googled every source I could find.

Thanks so much!!

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