Are these the little orange cloth-bound books, with silhouettes as illustrations? I had my mom's (including a Virginia Dare one!) and loved them. I think she had Jane Addams, Dolley Madison, Mary Todd, and Clara Barton.
I don't give half a hump if you're innocent or not. So where does that put you?
Book ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Jun 25, 2008 7:53:39 pm PDT #4913 of 10003
Because books.
Shir - Jun 25, 2008 7:54:07 pm PDT #4914 of 10003
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Dear Universe,
Please make sure I'll get a ride to the show I'm about to see tonight with my friend. It will make everything better, and much more important, easier.
Sincerely,
She Who Doesn't Even Want To Start Looking At The Maps And Schedules Of The Buses And Taxi She'll Need To Get To The Venue And Back, And Would Love To Wear The New Crush Dress
javachik - Jun 25, 2008 7:54:27 pm PDT #4915 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
I think I read those same books! Did they have a religious bent by any chance? I remember one on Teddy Roosevelt.
Kathy A - Jun 25, 2008 7:57:51 pm PDT #4916 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I don't remember a lot of religion in them, but it's been a while (almost 35 years!), so I could be mistaken.
Hil R. - Jun 25, 2008 8:00:37 pm PDT #4917 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I don't remember a religious bent, but I might have just kind of put that under "old-fashioned book." I don't recall what color the covers were.
I definitely remember that, in the Hebert Hoover one, his aunt and uncle spoke with "thee" and "thou" and so on.
But the 200 pages thing was consistent. Every single one, they somehow made it to exactly 200 pages.
Hil R. - Jun 25, 2008 8:02:04 pm PDT #4918 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm trying to figure out a way to google this series to find out if it had a name. So far, no luck.
beth b - Jun 25, 2008 8:19:21 pm PDT #4919 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
They even had a "biography" for Virginia Dare, in which they made up an entire life for her after the Lost Colony disappeared, complete with an explanation for "CROATAN" carved on the tree.
how odd.I was just thinking of this series the other day. My sister read tons of them - and because a once a week library trip was no where near enough books, I read all her books to. The Virginia Dare one confused me completely -- because it was presented as"true" ( because it explained why some indians had blue eyes), but there was no way to prove it ---all just guess work.
DH remembers the one about John Deere
beth b - Jun 25, 2008 8:28:39 pm PDT #4920 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
It looks like some one remember and resurrected the series "childhood of famous American series"
§ ita § - Jun 25, 2008 11:31:43 pm PDT #4921 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wonder if that woman was even slightly prepared for the hammering turn that interview took. She made my eyebrows raise with this:
As I mentioned previously, so few changes need to be made in the books, on average, that no one has ever objected.
Of course I want to know who did object, making her need the "on average."
Sophia Brooks - Jun 26, 2008 1:26:52 am PDT #4922 of 10003
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The Virginia Dare one confused me completely -- because it was presented as"true" ( because it explained why some indians had blue eyes), but there was no way to prove it ---all just guess work.
I remember this one-- it was like a fable "And that's how Indians got blue eyes"!