Your Childhood Bedtime Stories

[Chae]

Ahh, nostalgia Present the books you've read yourself or that were read to you.





"Sultan Mudschi Bedtime Stories" by Erwin Moser (read to me by mom)

The most fantastical book ever. Very SP/SO.

For instance, it had stories of a mouse family driving around in a steaming teapot car. The cover story was about an oriental cat who learned to float on a pillow to escape a fox who got interested in his hookah

[Kiba]

I never had bedtime stories. I don't keep the books of my childhood. My parents give them to random people because they have that bad habit.



Anyway my favorite book was an activity book about gnomes with beautiful illustrations by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet. On the book appeared a Mermaid and an Unicorn, they were my favs (I can't find pics).


Another one was called A Treasury of Fairy Tales and the illustrator was Annie Claude Martin.

[blegh]

Anyway my favorite book was an activity book about gnomes with beautiful illustrations by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet. On the book appeared a Mermaid and an Unicorn, they were my favs (I can't find pics).

We had a whole series of these as big coffee table books: one on gnomes with the same illustrations, one on giants, and one on fairies

I was read to alot as a child for bedtime, until i got old enough to read for myself. series and books i remember off the top of my head...

The Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe series
The Chronicles of Prydain series
Little house on the prairie series
A Wrinkle in Time series
The Borrowers series
Danny the Champion of the World
Fantastic Mr Fox (one of my favorites, I remember this being one of my first books to read on my own once i got old enough to read for myself)
those little golden books
dr seuss
there was a set of Seseme Street books that i remember getting each month that had like cookie monster cookie dough recipes along with other seseme street type stuff done episodically
old Mad Magazine books (reading on my own)
I remember some of my favorites to look through were these cut away how things work/are structured inside books (I'm specifically remembering a cruise ship with little people in it in the book)

my dad was corporate level in a large nationwide printing company, so we also had lots and lots of random coffee table books, childrens books, and various encyclopedias of things that he'd get for free and bring home for us.

I'm sure more will come to me all night long after I post this...


also I had original family stories told me in serialized nightly episodes...
Farmer Jake - stories told by my Dad (and Grandpa when they were visiting)
A series of adventures told by my next older brother centered around adventures with a blow up blimp we had, i don't remember who went on the adventures (maybe us?) but they a pet giant spider (his hand) that crapped pizzas

[Sanguine Miasma]

I have listened podcast series on analysis of classic stories. That stuff is brutal especially the history behind them. Modern versions are much cleaner.

Sadism, rapes etc.


I had lots of them. Made new ones myself as well.
Lots of books. We used libraries a lot and we even went to libraries of nearby municipalities. (After that I consumed all the comics quite pace after I learnt to read...)

[Number 9 large]

my dad used to tell me about a guy who had his nose up his forehead lmao, and everyone bullied him, then one day they were chasing him down and he ran all the way to a village with people who all had their nose up their forehead aswel, and the people with their noses where they should be felt uncomfortable...

[Chae]

I have listened podcast series on analysis of classic stories. That stuff is brutal especially the history behind them. Modern versions are much cleaner.

Sadism, rapes etc.

Agreed - compare Grimm's Fairy Tales, for instance.

[Alomoes]

I liked the one about the ugly barnacle. There once was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly, that everyone died. The end.

Sadly, I didn't really get read bed time stories, but I did make it a point to ask the definition of one word each night, although I stopped eventually.

I did read a lot of books at night. There was a series I read that took place in the Star Wars universe that I particularly enjoyed called "Galaxy of Fear". It is quite good. The premise was that the Empire was conducting experiments on its citizens and keeping dark secrets. There were no Jedi, just a bunch of children on the run in the galaxy with their father from the Empire. They were surprisingly dark for children's books, and fit well within the Star Wars Universe. Different from Goosebumps, though. I stayed up until 2 or 3 AM reading those books. Would be neat to get a movie based on this.

[Grendel]

Did you ever hear...the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?

[Tallmo]