I used to enjoy hanging out at the children's library... Mrs Erickson ran the place then and that place was always full of kids...... You would always find me at the Tintin or Asterix books...... and today i can boast that I almost have the full series, (not stolen from the children's library!)..
One of my other favourites, was the Hardy Boys.... and a series called THE Great Brain, by a person called Fitzgerald... man those books were cool
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Books .. Just William .. side splitting reading .. The Secret Seven .adventure ... of course as you mention the Hardy Boys .. many more the brain pulling them out of the haze .. hopefully .... To think what books and reading did for us , fueling our imagination , considering today I see it in decline Tv and computer games seem to rule supreme ..
My brother Clayton and I used to rollerskate to the Children's Library on Saturday mornings when we were very young. In summer we'd have our swimming costumes on under our clothes and have a towell round our necks and we'd head off to the pool afterwards. We'd spend hours sitting on the floor of the library reading Annuals and then choose our books to take home for the week. I don't remember it being too noisy, but it was always full of kids - Mrs Erikson must have kept us all fairly under control. I remember her keeping a box full of cardlike envelopes with our names on them and the books all had cards in them which would be placed into the envelope to show that you'd taken out the book. No computers, barcodes or scanners in those days.
The thing I remember about the library was the carpet. I loved the feel of it on my feet.
Does anyone remeber the books that you could decide on what way the story ended. Read about a page or two then you had to choose what way you wanted the story to go by turning to page 23 or 56???? Read another chapter and choose again from two or more directions the story was to go.
I remember working my way thro the Noddy series, but they were removed one week due to a ban before I'd got to the end.
I was verrrrrrry upset as only a new reader could be and very confused as only a young child could be as to the reason for the ban.
It was a little tricky explaining it to me. By golly I just didn't get it.
Gave up on it and moved on. Never have finished the series.
Barbara .. Noddy .. yes one wonders how the sick minded PC lawyerlike please all ever got into positions of power .. it seems a few crazies overule the sane at times ... reading Noddy never hurt any of us ... Its the PC with their sick little minds looking for something bad to blame their own damaged psyche on .. Much like the playing backward of the record era for satanic influences ... from the sounds of it taking Noddy away from you did more damage at the time than allowing you to contendedly and innocently read on .. thanx goodness you sound like a sane grown up now with a healthy dislike for the PC breed .
Sandy
I remember reading thoses stories when you could choose a chapter at the end of it and move on to another page. I remember one was about "space" can't remember teh title. It was grand.
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Mrs. Pepperpot was the only book for me..........I loved her
I loved the Hardy Boys, my brothers had a whole series and I read them all. Luckily Jarren got the reading gene but wasn't interested in the Hardy Boys at the library, so I took it out on my name and read him the first chapter, he was hooked. He has read every one here in the Kimberley library and we bought all the ones we could get from the second hand book shop, was so nice to have my son reading and enjoying the same books I read as a child.
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Barb and Sandy - Remember you can catch Noddy on M-Net every Sunday morning around 7 O'clock!
I can't believe three people looked at the Hardy Boys cover...Love Ya All! allgood
I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm one of them. Yes, I read all the Hardy Boys books, as well as the Nancy Drews, Secret Seven and Famous Five. At school, I would also take out the Biggles books. He was an airforce pilot and the stories were so gripping.
I also had a go at a few of them, but being Afrikaans, I went through the whole "Trompie" series. Couldn't wait for the next one to appear on the shelves!
I see that the children's library has been moved back into the adult library, in the same place it was back in the 70's...... the more things change the more they stay the same.....
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