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poires et poireaux
04/13/09

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Off-topic, but does anybody remember the story about a duck who makes too much popcorn and then popcorn is everywhere, covering the entire pages? This was my standard doctor's office waiting room read, and I'd love to find it again.
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Jezemale*
04/13/09

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Whats the name of that book where the kid gets stung by bee's and dies?
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poires et poireaux
04/13/09

@Jezemale*: My Girl?
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Vermontboy
04/13/09

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Every time we read Blueberries for Sal, my 4 year old insists for days that she is Sal and won't answer to her real name. When we read One Morning in Maine she not only won't answer to her name but also gets very upset if we don't call her 18 mo. old sister Jane.

The coolest thing is that McCloskey wrote the books about his daughters, Sal and Jane. That means that the real Sal is like 65 years old now. How awesome must is be to know that you are the main character in one of the best children's books of all time.
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brendastarlet is on it
04/13/09

@Vermontboy: the garage in One Morning in Maine still stands and you can visit the beach where Jane played.
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SunburnedCounsel
04/13/09

@brendastarlet is on it: That's really near my American gran's house and I've been there! I loved these books as a child so much, and my da still calls me Sal sometimes due to my unnatural love of blueberries.
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elliebean
04/13/09

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I had this book growing up. My dad used to sing "I found my thrilllll on blueberry hilllll" when he'd read it to us as kids. My brother and I have both been caught in recent years reading and cackling at the joys of Bread and Jam for Francis, another key player in the rotation. Anyone?
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BabyJane
04/13/09

@elliebean: Bread and Jam for Francis was one of my absolute favorite book as a kid!
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Mama Penguino
04/13/09

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Also, if you ever get the chance to see Paul Mesner's puppet show of Blueberries for Sal, it's completely wonderful in every way!
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Mama Penguino
04/13/09

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What the heck? I bought a copy of this two years ago.
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margareita metermaid
04/13/09

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Ooh...this was one of my faves. Up there with The Fire Cat (a cat named Pickles! yay!), Where the Wild Things Are, Simon's Book, Little Bear goes to the Moon, and Richard Scarey's, "I am a Bunny". I still have all of these somewhere...
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Mama Penguino
04/13/09

@margareita metermaid: We love Pickles at our house! And don't you also just love Mrs. Goodkind, who looks like a Spanish transvestite?
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margareita metermaid
04/13/09

@Mama Penguino: YES!! Wow, I am so excited someone else knows the Fire Cat. I threw it out there, not expecting a commiseration! Mrs. Goodkind always looked very odd to me, but in a good way. Just the kind of woman that would own a yellow spotted cat named pickles, heh.
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saintbernadette
04/13/09

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Sal gets a makeover in 3, 2, 1 . . .
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hfree
04/13/09

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I had no idea it was out of print! This and Make Way for Ducklings are two of my all time favorites.

(although my all time #1 favorite is The Best Nest)
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tscheese
04/13/09

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We had wild plums in South Dakota where I grew up. I helped my grandma pick them. That, and gooseberries. We had amazing plum preserves for several years after that. Beautiful.

Picking the damn sweet corn, that I'm not nostalgic about. That was grown ON PURPOSE, not collected wild, and we were always dirty and grumpy by the end of the day. We'd get up butt-fuck early, pick corn until we couldn't carry anymore, and then shuck it and de-silk it and wash it and scrape it and cook all fucking day, for like two or three days straight.

We'd put up gallons and gallons of it to be frozen and reheated all winter.

I am sick to death of sweet corn. Can't touch the stuff to this day.
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Princess Leela
04/13/09

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Squeeeee. I now know what my friends' kids are getting for their upcoming birthdays. I always liked this one better than "Make Way for Ducklings." (Not that that book isn't awesome also.)
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TeacherDee
04/13/09

@Princess Leela:

ok sister. you better just back off mr and mrs mallard. every time i read blueberries for sal i just can't stop thinking how much better it would be if sal were a duck navigating boston.
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brendastarlet is on it
04/13/09

@TeacherDee: @MargaretMoony: Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack
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LaComtesse
04/13/09

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Apparently, I'm missing out: I never read this as a kid. I was too busy squealing over this one...

(My husband bought me a copy of this as a wedding present and I wept.)

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hfree
04/13/09

@LaComtesse: Cute!
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small-fox
04/13/09

@LaComtesse: That is so, so cute. That's the kind of spouse wedding gift I can get behind. (If I ever get married, my spouse would have to fork out a lot for a copy of Trumpets in Grumpetland, as I have tried to get one myself and can't afford it.)
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LaComtesse
04/13/09

@small-fox: I got this and a hand-made backgammon board. He got Yankee tickets. I thought they were personal and cute.

@wascally_wabbit: I just think it's such a good message: when you share, you make your community a better place! Small, individual acts of kindness have the power to change a lot!
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morninggloria
04/13/09

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Wow, department of redundancy department. Someone needs to proofread. (This is directed toward myself)
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morninggloria
04/13/09

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Also, I grew up in northern Wisconsin, where the fields and cows meet the lakes and trees, on 250 acres of uninterrupted woods. Down the road was a big hill that was literally covered with blackberry bushes. Thanks to this book, I never ever went to the blackberry hill to pick berries with my mother because I was scared of bears thanks to this book.

Also, One Morning In Maine always made me cry and cry, because Sal loses her tooth in the mud.

I was a weird kid.
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lilbobbytables
04/13/09

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Oh god, I loved this book as a tyke. I am in nostalgia alert red right now. If anyone needs me, I will be practicing my care bear stare.
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