{"id":465,"date":"2011-11-16T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/11\/16\/from-anne-of-green-gables-to-twilight-langsdale-staff-write-about-books-they-read-when-they-were-young\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:45","slug":"from-anne-of-green-gables-to-twilight-langsdale-staff-write-about-books-they-read-when-they-were-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2011\/11\/16\/from-anne-of-green-gables-to-twilight-langsdale-staff-write-about-books-they-read-when-they-were-young\/","title":{"rendered":"From Anne of Green Gables to Twilight, Langsdale Staff write about books they read when they were young."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cI got my copy of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn<\/em> when I was ten. It was given to me by an aunt who always treated me like an equal instead of child, so I took her selection with great gravitas. The first time I read it I fell in love with Francie as a child, when she spends hours reading books to escape the world around her. The book follows Francie and her family at many points in their lives, so each time I read the book I relate to different scenes \u2013heartbreak, loss, change \u2013 depending on where I am in my own life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Natalie Burclaff
Reference and Instruction Librarian<\/div>\n

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The Green Knowe books by Lucy M. Boston
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“When I was in school, I read books written by Lucy M. Boston and because of these books I now have a life-long interest in old houses and mysteries!
The series of six books deals with the fictional house, Green Knowe, which is based on the author\u2019s real home in England, The Manor at Hemmingford Grey. The first two books, The Children of Green Knowe<\/em> and The Treasure of Green Knowe,<\/em> deal with a boy who stays with his Great-Grandmother, Mrs. Oldknow, at Green Knowe during school vacations. There he encounters the ghosts of children who lived in the house in previous centuries who help him solve mysteries.
In 2009 The Treasure of Green Knowe<\/em> was made into a film starring Maggie Smith as Mrs. Oldknow. The film is entitled From Time To Time<\/em> and here is the link to the movie trailer: <\/strong>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=19bYsqvlXp0<\/strong><\/a>
Though Lucy Boston has died, her son and his family still live in The Manor at Hemmingford Grey. The house is open for tours and there is a small gift shop. Here is the link: <\/strong>www.greenknowe.co.uk\/<\/strong><\/a>
When Lucy Boston\u2019s son was young, she often invited his cousins to visit. His cousins insist that once they encountered French speaking ghosts!
These Green Knowe books are available at the College Park, Towson, Salisbury, and Bowie Libraries of the University of Maryland System.”<\/strong>
Ivy Patterson Owens (Cataloger, Langsdale Library\u2019s Technical Services department)<\/div>\n

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“The one thing I can say about myself as a child was that I was completely ruled by my obsessions\u2014 \u201cyou\u2019re on some new kick,\u201d my mother would say\u2014and that most of those obsessions were fueled by what I picked up from books.
My deepest and most prolonged childhood fixation occurred when I read O\"\"<\/a>n the Banks of Plum Creek<\/em> by Laura Ingalls Wilder, one of the installments in her \u201cLittle House\u201d series. My \u201870s-era exterior may have been wrapped in a red polyester dashiki and Toughskins bell bottoms, but in my imagination I was prancing around in gingham, petticoats, and a sunbonnet. In this book, part of the memoirs of Wilder\u2019s pioneer-era childhood, Wilder and her family move to Minnesota and are forced to live in a \u201cdugout.\u201d If you aren\u2019t aware of what a dugout is (which is not one of those insets that border baseball fields, by the way) it\u2019s a weird one-room living space chiseled out from the side of an embankment\u2014which the Ingalls family use as a stop-gap measure as they wait for their new frontier house to be built. Let me just say that I have never heard of any other person in America, at any other time in history, to take architectural cues from gophers and other subterranean wildlife in the construction of their dream home. While this seems like a questionable and no-frills living situation to a postmodern-era adult (The Ingalls family makes their windows for the dugout from greased paper, and they have to whitewash the dirt under their feet so it will resemble an actual floor), nothing could have captured my childish imagination more.
On the Banks of Plum Creek<\/em> is also the Little House installment that most closely informs the storyline of the \u201870s-era television program Little House on the Prairie (and not, curiously, the book of the same title.) This, combined with the media\u2019s and public\u2019s obsession with \u201cBicentennial Fever\u201d, acted as a perfect storm of information overload (as a 7-year-old, I was unaware that the events in the Revolutionary era and in On the Banks of Plum Creek<\/em> were nearly a century apart.) I became so obsessed with historical America that my mother eventually hand-sewed me a pioneer-era girls\u2019 outfit just to shut me up. I put on this lace-trimmed dress in a ditsy floral print, an apron, and a matching bonnet every day after school. I even went so far as to don this getup in public when we visited the US Capitol on a sightseeing trip one weekend. I climbed the steps to the Capitol, daintily lifting my skirt and petticoats so as to not trip on my way up. When I got to the top of the stairs, I turned around to get a good view of the Mall. Suddenly I was beset by the illumination of a dozen flashbulbs. Japanese tourists at the foot of the stairs couldn\u2019t believe their luck: that a delusional little girl in a historical costume was twirling around on the Capitol steps. \u201cOh my God–it\u2019s America on a stick!\u201d they probably thought. Not prescient enough to realize that I should be embarrassed, instead I smiled, posed, and curtsied. The tourists may not have known it, but they had Laura Ingalls Wilder to thank for this Kodak moment.<\/strong>
Adele Marley, CirculationTechnician<\/div>\n
I will never forget reading A Wrinkle in Time<\/em> in the 4th grade, the description of the planet Camarotz, where the houses that were all alike, and children bouncing balls at the same time, it was fascinating, I can remember how it opened up the world of imagination to me, almost 40 years ago. That led me to embrace \"\"<\/a>the radio theater style and create the outreach theater company Theater On The Air. An outreach theater company that did radio plays live for senior audiences in nursing homes, senior centers and retirement communities.<\/strong>
Brian Chetelat, Library Technician \u2013 Book and Document Delivery Department<\/div>\n

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As an elementary ed major in college I took a children\u2019s literature class where I read all the Newbery Medal winners (well up to that point, now there are 30+ more!). . . From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/em> was my favorite among those. As a kid. . .Mr. Popper\u2019s Penguins<\/em> was definitely on the list!<\/strong>
Jeffrey Hutson, Associate Director for Public Services<\/div>\n
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