Books and more Books

I love old books!

the top three books are old children's readers

they have bright pretty pages and old fashioned scenes....so fun to look at!

Sometimes books contain little surprises....like this old newspaper article

I remember reading this book when I was in 6th grade

I loved selecting new books from the Scholastic book club, every month. The day the books arrived was always exciting because you got to take home brand new glossy paper-back books, plus see what everyone else had chosen. Then the reading and the trading back and forth would begin.

Mysteries were super popular!

Look at these girls on the cover of "Claudia"--in their Marcia Brady hairstyles, mini dresses, Mary-Jane shoes, and knee socks! LOL

I loved the "Ginnie" books and read them all, I think. I also loved the "Magic Elizabeth" book

Have any of you read any of these old Blythe Girls novels? Somehow I missed these. I am not sure if these are young adult or teen novels or what. Anyone know? I'm going to have to check into these.

Some of these books have beautiful and colorful covers!

I read Little Women so many times!

This was one of my favorite books!

I think this little Candy Stripers novel was sometime in Jr. High......see the price?--Only 50 cents!!

As we got older, we started reading teen romance novels. They were so sweet and so entertaining! Those three above are Whitman teen novels, I think they were called. They were nice little hardback books with hard shiny covers. I bought them with my babysitting money!
Is it just me?--or does the cover on the first one look like Sandra Dee and the middle book looks like Patty Duke and the one on the right looks like Marlo Thomas in "That Girl". ?
I LOVED watching the Patty Duke show, and "That Girl".

The cover on the book below---teens sure don't talk on phones like THOSE anymore, do they? LOL

I just loved Beverly Clearly and Rosamond du Jardin!!

By sixth and seventh grade, we were devouring the "malt shop novels". I read them all, over and over.

The book below was most definetly  a "malt shop" novel!! ha ha LOL

Most of us read Seventeenth Summer in 7th or 8th grade. It was a good book!

(below)---Gidget? LOL I loved watching "Gidget" and also "The Flying Nun".

Anyone else read Betty Cavanna books?

Everybody read "Sunshine". It was a tv movie as well

 and had alot of John Denver songs in it. I loved John Denver.  There were some great actors and actresses in this movie too, like Cliff DeYoung, Meg Foster, Brenda Vaccaro, and Bill Mumy. I grew up watching Bill Mumy as little Will Robinson on the "Lost in Space" t.v. show.
 Also I didn't know this until recently, but the child actor who played the little girl (Jill) in the movie was Lindsay/Sidney Greenbush (twins) who later on became Mary and Laura Ingalls little baby sister, Carrie...on "Little House on the Prairie"!

And then there was "Ode to Billy Joe".

Robby Benson and Glynnis O Conner starred...wonder what happened to them? Everybody sang along to the old 1967 Bobbie Gentry song about Choctaw Ridge. I think Robby Benson was later on in a movie called "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" or something like that?--anyone remember?

We sure loved Teen magazine!

this is Colleen Corby, right?

I dont think any of these magazines exist anymore....

(below)--Looks like Twiggy eyelashes and make-up. Anyone remember Twiggy?

What were your favorite books and magazines as a young girl and a teenager?
Did you love the library and the bookmobile?
Did you buy the Scholastic books in school?
Did you keep any of your old books and magazines?