Agnes is in at most middle school…. and more likely only 4th or 5th grade.I doubt they’re assigning 400 page books.
On the other hand….she’ll delay till there’s no time to read a TEN page book….nor would she have any interest in the likes of Judy Blume or Laura Ingalls Wilder.
What would Agnes read?Too bad she can’t attend Hogwarts.
Bruno…. I LOVED series books…Read every Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew I could find, also Tom Swift, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven.
Cherry Barton, Sue Ames….(they were nurses) and some English series (I wish I could remember the title)in teeny tiny print, about ballet students in an old abbey.But I read them like candy…two or three a week to liven up the other stuff.
I also read the Mary Poppins series, Dr. Doolittle…and any series in the library about horses….like the Black Stallion, the Red Stallion… Misty and Flicka…
And I was only about twelve when I was finished with them all.I doubt would have ever made a book report on any of them.
I wonder whether there were competing educational philosophies on this. I went to a small parochial school in a rural area through eighth grade. Can’t ever remember a book report. Lots of reading, history, geography, math, and what was called composition (writing paragraphs). Pretty much the same when I got to the public high school in 9th grade. What we did have though in the public school were lots of assigned reading (classics mostly) and regular assigned composition writing on some aspect of them. This was well before Cliff notes and mostly before TV became a major disruptive force. In elementary school anyway, TV meant grainy 13-inch black and white. More than a few of my classmates families didn’t even have a telephone. By the time I had gotten to high school, TV had pretty well blossomed; and color sets arrived. Can remember some kids talking about shows they’d seen before class. In our area you could only get three (UHF) channels.
There was no assigned reading in grade school, but from the time I could read, I read everything. Mad magazine (Bill Gaines was still alive), comic books, Nancy Drew, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Dumas, Heller, Dickens and dozens more-all before high school. Still reading now.
How fun it is to guess everyone’s age by the info they’ve provided here! When I was sidelined by pneumonia my junior year in high school, I sent my mom to the bookstore to buy Cherry Ames Army Nurse and The Caine Mutiny. couldn’t decide whether I was a kid or a grown up, I guess.
I read voraciously then as now – my favourites were the books with magic and other worlds – E. Nesbit, Edward Eager, Narnia, The Magic Faraway Tree. Thank heavens, though, my school never required book reports – I cannot think of anything more likely to cast a black cloud over reading.
Right, Red! My Dad swore at the “useless” batteries from the PX that wore out in days. LOL … little did he know about their extracurricular duty.
Robina… not sure. But I do remember these were a particular sort of paperback. .. very thin, almost like a small magazine. But not glossy… cheap paper with tiny type.
When I was 10& 11 I had dental appointments every 4-6 weeks. (braces) and off to the big city we would go. Mom & grandmom would set me loose in Woolworths while they shopped next door at Woodwards. In two hours I would go through a Nancy Drew. If they weren’t back, start another. The fun part was finding where I left off 6 weeks earlier since I tried to be careful not to damage the books. They were for sale. .Never did that Nurse book stuff, but worked my way through the Black Stallion and once back at my normal library – went through all the horror and sci-fi. .and anyways……all book reports should be done on books assigned – the ones you wouldn’t normally read. That way …. you can still enjoy reading.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 11 years ago
Agnes is in at most middle school…. and more likely only 4th or 5th grade.I doubt they’re assigning 400 page books.
On the other hand….she’ll delay till there’s no time to read a TEN page book….nor would she have any interest in the likes of Judy Blume or Laura Ingalls Wilder.
What would Agnes read?Too bad she can’t attend Hogwarts.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 11 years ago
BTW… I didn’t get back tonight in time to post before the new strips came out….but how about this…..?When is a pig not a pig?
At feeding time, when he’s a goblin from the trough.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 11 years ago
Bruno…. I LOVED series books…Read every Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew I could find, also Tom Swift, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven.
Cherry Barton, Sue Ames….(they were nurses) and some English series (I wish I could remember the title)in teeny tiny print, about ballet students in an old abbey.But I read them like candy…two or three a week to liven up the other stuff.
I also read the Mary Poppins series, Dr. Doolittle…and any series in the library about horses….like the Black Stallion, the Red Stallion… Misty and Flicka…
And I was only about twelve when I was finished with them all.I doubt would have ever made a book report on any of them.
rshive over 11 years ago
I wonder whether there were competing educational philosophies on this. I went to a small parochial school in a rural area through eighth grade. Can’t ever remember a book report. Lots of reading, history, geography, math, and what was called composition (writing paragraphs). Pretty much the same when I got to the public high school in 9th grade. What we did have though in the public school were lots of assigned reading (classics mostly) and regular assigned composition writing on some aspect of them. This was well before Cliff notes and mostly before TV became a major disruptive force. In elementary school anyway, TV meant grainy 13-inch black and white. More than a few of my classmates families didn’t even have a telephone. By the time I had gotten to high school, TV had pretty well blossomed; and color sets arrived. Can remember some kids talking about shows they’d seen before class. In our area you could only get three (UHF) channels.
Dragon0131 over 11 years ago
There was no assigned reading in grade school, but from the time I could read, I read everything. Mad magazine (Bill Gaines was still alive), comic books, Nancy Drew, Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen, Dumas, Heller, Dickens and dozens more-all before high school. Still reading now.
magicwalnut Premium Member over 11 years ago
How fun it is to guess everyone’s age by the info they’ve provided here! When I was sidelined by pneumonia my junior year in high school, I sent my mom to the bookstore to buy Cherry Ames Army Nurse and The Caine Mutiny. couldn’t decide whether I was a kid or a grown up, I guess.
robinafox over 11 years ago
I read voraciously then as now – my favourites were the books with magic and other worlds – E. Nesbit, Edward Eager, Narnia, The Magic Faraway Tree. Thank heavens, though, my school never required book reports – I cannot think of anything more likely to cast a black cloud over reading.
SusanSunshine Premium Member over 11 years ago
Right, Red! My Dad swore at the “useless” batteries from the PX that wore out in days. LOL … little did he know about their extracurricular duty.
Robina… not sure. But I do remember these were a particular sort of paperback. .. very thin, almost like a small magazine. But not glossy… cheap paper with tiny type.
Hunter7 over 11 years ago
When I was 10& 11 I had dental appointments every 4-6 weeks. (braces) and off to the big city we would go. Mom & grandmom would set me loose in Woolworths while they shopped next door at Woodwards. In two hours I would go through a Nancy Drew. If they weren’t back, start another. The fun part was finding where I left off 6 weeks earlier since I tried to be careful not to damage the books. They were for sale. .Never did that Nurse book stuff, but worked my way through the Black Stallion and once back at my normal library – went through all the horror and sci-fi. .and anyways……all book reports should be done on books assigned – the ones you wouldn’t normally read. That way …. you can still enjoy reading.