Do you remember The silver brumby? The popularity of children’s science fiction with authors like Andre Norton and Robert Heinlein? Or what about Rosemary Sutcliff’s fabulous Eagle of the Ninth set in Roman Britain? Do you remember the fuss about the relationship between Noddy and Big Ears?
If you do then you are probably, like me, one of the baby boomers who enjoyed the golden age of children’s publishing during the 60’s and 70’s.
During Heritage Week the Centre for the Child in the Central Library decided to have a display of books from the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s from our Store collection. We wanted to encourage people to walk down Memory Lane and indulge in re-reading their own personal favourites.
This display has been so successful that we have extended to time period beyond Heritage Week and have these treasures on display for a few more weeks.
5 November 2008 at 2:53 pm
Yes, definitely the Silver Brumby! I think my schoolmates and I were all fighting over this series. It seemed so exotic and exciting. I’ve also gone all nostalgic over a Golden Book I was given about a dog called Hunky Dory.
10 November 2008 at 9:35 am
Childhood memories of adventures, silliness, colour-filled pages filled with stories by : Dr Seuss, Eric Carle, Richard Scarry, Mem Fox. The overwhelming memories are stories with lots of rhymes, poetry, silly pictures, imaginary characters. I didn’t grow up with the traditional children’s ‘classics’ instead my mum raised us on a diet of silly rhymes and imagination
I also remember the Scholastic book club, home-made library bags (which were later turned into marble bags when they turned out not to be big enough for the usual weekly haul from the library), reading under the covers, reading at the beach, reading early in the morning when the sun came up, reading in the treehouse … if I was awake, there was a book nearby.