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01/04/2006: New Article: Book Reports. Plus Turtle Comms!

If you can believe the rumors, there might be a new, normal, regular X-E article up. Book Reports is its name, and its game is reviewing five different children’s books that for one reason or another manage to make me turn glee into a verb and glee my way to Happyland. Everything from the Berenstain Bears to the Jolly Green Giant to God and dinosaurs, all in one space, with yummy parchment background. Enjoy.

In other news, I received a package the other day from my editor at Box Office Magazine, and assumed it was just another in a long line of “generic” gifts companies send to their clients and cohorts. This would’ve been fine by me: A gift is a gift. But something tells me that vintage TMNT Turtle Comms aren’t something companies send in mass to their contacts…

As it turns out, my editor had this baby and figured I might like it, and I figure she’s right, because I somehow never landed myself a Turtle Comm toy in all my years of Turtleing. It’s neat. Comes with all of these character cards with specific Morse codes that let you contact them, or at least, let you pretend you’re in contact with ‘em. I can’t believe I now have the means to play Walkie Talkie with Usagi Yojimbo, and this is definitely the kind of gift that’ll get me to lower my rate on articles written at 3 AM the night before a 9 AM deadline. Thanks, C!

She even included a note saying that she liked the 2005 Advent Calendar, which is my perfect segue into answering the question of a few who asked: Yes, it’s been archived, and it can be found here. Will put the archive on the headlines list on the main page as soon as I write up the descriptions.

3 Stupid Things I’m Currently Into:
1) King Kong lore. Bit by the bug after seeing the remake (which was excellent), I’ve been immersing myself in All Things Kong. I’m really fascinated with the many interpretations of what goes on on Skull Island, and that’s reason enough to see virtually all Kong-related films ever made. Next on my list is Son of Kong, and from what I’ve read, I think this will be one to review on the site.

2) Metroid Prime Pinball, for the Nintendo DS. Bought this baby with a Christmas gift certificate, because the holidays are the only time my video game library ever grows. This is one addictive little bitch. I’m a sucker for virtually every pinball game I’ve ever played, and this one doesn’t disappoint. The Metroid theme is in more than just music and graphics, too. Heck, you don’t shoot a ball, you shoot a rolled-up Samus who occassionally spreads out ot shoot demon bats with high energy beams. Between this and Mario Kart, I have found my offerings to the gods of procrastination.

3) The Secret Life of Lobsters. I’m really not sure where this book is going yet. It’s obstensibly about the lobsters of Maine, but I may have been tricked into reading a novel about fisherman and scientists trying to find common ground. Not really sure yet, but they dangle the big claws often enough to keep me interested.


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Discussion Thread: 194 comments

Allison

Congrats on the interview! And here I always thought that when a company told you that they "kept your resume on file", they really just burned it.

I’m working at Traffic.com now, which has CBS3 as a client, although I am no longer producing for Bob. Instead, I’m gathering traffic info for Denver, CO (but doing it from their Phila. office).

Want to know why?

The non-compete contract I was forced to sign to get the job at metro in the first place prevents me from directly competing with them for a year.

Yeah, in other words, they not only laid me off, but also said that I couldn’t work Philly traffic at Traffic.com because I’d be competing against them. I was never important enough to get full-time pay or, after September, even keep employed…yet if I wanted to hone the talents I learned elsewhere after THEY made the decision to terminate my employment…then all of a sudden I can’t do such a thing.

Ghosted by Mike @ 01/05/2006 7:14 PM EST

My elementary school did the Troll Book Club/Fair as well. I used to LOVE buying the books from the form–my mom always let me get 4 books at a time. I always loved those order forms–and I still read alot. My parents got me "The World According to Mr. Rogers" for my graduation. I love stuff like that! My mom bought it though–it was definitely her personal touch.

My favorite books are pop culture stuff–my favorites are "Jump the Shark," 2 SNL books–the uncensored tell-all expose of "Saturday Night Live," "Saturday Night Live: Equal Opportunity Offender," by former NBC Censor William Clotworthy, and all five of Dennis Miller’s Rants series. The fifth is an audiobook, which I downloaded onto my iPod from iTunes.

Did anyone here ever read "Disclosure"??? I read it in 12th grade, and my mom REFUSED to let me take it to school–I was already a geeky kid–she said an 18-year old taking a sexually explicit book to study hall wouldn’t be appropriate. So, I had to read it at home. That’s fine–I didn’t feel like hearing everyone making fun of my sophisticated reading material.

Ghosted by Allison @ 01/05/2006 7:22 PM EST

Isn’t that technically illegal on their part, Mike? They’re basically not allowing you to work. But, I guess if you’re working, that’s all that matters, right?

I’m one of those theorists that says that when they claim to keep your resume on file, they actually shred it while they laugh hysterically at your horrible misfortune. Wow, that sounded dramatic.

That really sucks about what they did, making you sign a no-compete and all, but maybe after a year they will give you Philly traffic.

Ghosted by Allison @ 01/05/2006 7:27 PM EST

Yeah, technically it was illegal. And, minus Metro of course, all sides agreed that Metro would have gotten laughed out of court had it come to that.

Problem is, none of the companies involved that could have gotten me producing Philly traffic under a different umbrella than Metro felt like going to court. Would have been much easier for them to just assign a new producer already in-house than hire someone who comes with "baggage" and spent money/time in court.

But yeah, what counts is that I didn’t completely scare off Traffic.com…I’m still able to work for them, doing any job in any city…except Phila.

Besides, Traffic.com rules in the sense that it’s giving me full-time and benefits…something Metro never did…yet I (and everyone else who was ever employed and laid off by them) signed the Non compete under the (false) pretenses that our jobs WOULD turn into fulltime.

Yeah, to anyone else who’s reading this, go to http://www.traffic.com for your traffic information; they produce up-to-date traffic reports for every city in the country and give you the info for free.

DON’T use Smartraveler or Shadow or Metro or anything else like that.

(Sorry for the plug…I just want Metro to suffer)

Ghosted by Mike @ 01/05/2006 8:04 PM EST

I can’t remember most of the books I used to read as a kid. There were a LOT of them, I was a big reader.

I do remember I really liked The Very Hungry Caterpillar for many years past the point where I should get that enthused about a counting book.

But, most of the ones I remember are the ghost story books. One in particular that I owned and read again and again was Grandpa’s Ghost Stories. Each chapter, the little boy ends up in a new predicament with different monsters. At one point, which I remember best, he is carried off by a giant disembodied hand, and taken to a furry house. I always loved the illustrations in that one.

Another series, that I took out of the library over and over were the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. The stories in them weren’t particularly frightening to me, because I was a pretty macabre kid, watching B-horror movies on TV with my mom before I started school. What really got me were the illustrations. They were these weird pen and ink and watercolor drawings that looked like something from your semiconcious. They would be clearly representative of something, but would trail off in places to allow your imagination to fill in. Awful, hairy, creepy, dark things seemed to be just beyond what you could see. My favorite illustration was for a story about the fatal prom dress (a girl rents a dress, ends up passing out and dying at the dance, the dress was from a dead girl, embalming fluid from it seeped into the renter’s skin as she sweated at the dance). The picture was ostensibly of a dress on a hanger, but it gave the impression of someone in it, that it was half decaying at the bottom, and there was a half-seen leg coming down from the bottom. Creeped me out. I always was a little scared to be home alone whenever I had one of those books out.

Years later, when I was in college, I saw the complilation of all the Scary Stories books (including one that came out after I had stopped reading them) and I bought it. I ended up taking it to my parents house, because having it in my room at college was creeping me out. I couldn’t sleep well knowing it was sitting on my shelf.

Yep, that book still can creep me out. I loaned it out to my cousin’s ten-year-old daughter. I haven’t had a chance to ask her if it is keeping her from sleeping.

Ghosted by mags @ 01/05/2006 8:07 PM EST

…not that I’m bitter, of course, haha.

Honestly, I wish no permanent ill will towards Metro or anyone else…I guess they just did what they had to do.

Ghosted by Mike @ 01/05/2006 8:25 PM EST

Oh wow, I’d totally forgotten about so many of these books from my childhood! I liked the Berenstein Bears alot, probably because my grandparents always had kids books that enforced manners, like Richard Scarry’s Best Books of Please & Thank-You Ever, or something. Nothing against Richard Scarry, he’s totally my favourite.

I also loved those Jolly Postman books, with all the envelopes and stuff? And of course, "junior novelizations" of random movies and cheap tv shows – always a classic. With eight colour photos!

Ghosted by Lizzy @ 01/05/2006 8:38 PM EST

My parents still have all of our Berenstein Bears and most of our Golden Books at their house. We’ve been getting Berenstein Bear books for at least 20 years. Mom wrote mine and my sisters’ full names on the inside front cover of one of the oldest books (I think it’s "In the Dark"), and according to it, I was 6 when the book was purchased, one sister was 5, and the other was so little, her age isn’t listed. Yes, we had "Junk Food"; it wasn’t my favorite (I thought "Vacation" was hilarious), but it was cute, especially since I’ve had similar problems with weight battles.

Like Matt, I still read children’s books quite frequently; unlike Matt, I’m a big reader, mostly mysteries and adventure stories. I collect "American Girls" books and will still occasionally read Nancy Drew when I’m feeling nostalgic.

I do remember the Turtle Comn, but we never had it. We loved the Turtle cartoons and movies, but we never had the toys (Mom might have said we were too old by then or we just were more into the cartoons and movie).

Ghosted by starwenn @ 01/05/2006 8:55 PM EST

I remember those old Berenstein Bears books, I had lots of them when I was a kid. I also had lots of those Peanuts Encyclopedia things where they have facts on science and other stuff with Peanuts characters doing things. But I always liked the Where’s Waldo ones best.

Mama Bear looks like that old woman in those Tom and Jerry cartoons that tells her Thomas to sto pbeing a bad cat. You never see anything above her waist, but the clothes are somewhat similar.

Ghosted by mjf7583 @ 01/05/2006 8:58 PM EST

I found the comment on pee-wee’s playhouse funny because I had a friend who stopped showing up to CCD in second grade. When we questioned her as to why she stopped coming, she told us that she could not attend because she was missing pee-wee’s playhouse. She’s going to hell, and Pee-Wee will be right beside her.

Ghosted by Amy @ 01/05/2006 9:03 PM EST

I stopped going to church when Nickelodeon had the Sunday morning line up of Rugrats, Ren and Stimpy and Rocko’s Modern Life….good times.

Ghosted by Muppet Baby @ 01/05/2006 9:15 PM EST

Allison, I had CCD with Sister Mary Ruth who used to grab my very long hair and tell me she was going to cut it off "because only harlots had long hair"… I had to deal with her from 3rd – 6th grade. Wow CCD was awesome!

Ghosted by J @ 01/05/2006 9:18 PM EST

I stopped going to church after that time Lonnie threw my shoe out the window so I kicked him in the balls. Ah, sweet retribution….

Ghosted by Mystie @ 01/05/2006 9:55 PM EST

JLALRC-

Currently, a Teddy Ruxpin comeback is planned! Teddyruxpin.com has a preorder up…supposed to be available for Christmas, but delayed till Feb. DVD;s of the cartoon available this month! yay!!

Now, back to your normal posts…

Ghosted by Terror Claws Cole @ 01/05/2006 10:07 PM EST

I too had one of those Turtle Comms. I adored the thing, and I remember irritating my entire family with the loud-ass ‘morse code’ beeper.

Ghosted by Timmy @ 01/05/2006 10:20 PM EST

I got one of those for one of my firends on his B-day. Back then, we were so stupid that we were actually expecting that you could really speak with the likes of Leonardo and the others. Kids may be able to kick our asses, but they’re still fantasy-believing idiots.

Ghosted by Nate @ 01/05/2006 11:25 PM EST

It’s a rare occasion that I actually owned one of the ole school toys around here, but I had the hell out of that Turle Comm. I can hear that morse beep right now.
I just finished a semester of Language Arts in early childhood ed, which meant lots of children’s books. Lots and lots of children’s books. For my final project I got to read Curious George Rides a Bike to the class using a monkey puppet I named Coconut. Oh yeah.
I’m way into Kong since seeing the current incarnation as well. I went into it expecting cool in the form of Jables rocking it 30’s style and nifty CGI but it walked out all weepy and heart warmed and devoted. I guess I wasn’t counting on my predisposion to love gorillas in all forms, especially vaudeville loving ice skating ones. I have the original version sitting on the Teefaux, just waiting for the right evening…got The Frighteners sitting on there too for the additional Peter Jackson-age.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 01/05/2006 11:39 PM EST

I love the CCD memories. CCD was so totally random/bizarre, based on the stories I’ve heard talking about it with my friends who suffered through it as well.

Here is what we did in CCD, which met on Sunday mornings for preschool-6th grade, Wednesday mornings for 7th grade on:

–Watch a really bad series of videos called McGee and Me
–Watch a really bad video every year called Camp Sacrament
–Make patron saint t-shirts with puffy paint
–have sex ed night in eighth grade
–had a "celebration of reconciliation" in which we were handed an ancient, mimeographed examination of conscience in which "writing in textbooks" and "throwing food in the cafeteria" were both listed as sins you could sort of check off on a little list (other notable entries: "smoking" and "making a sibling cry")

and now for the truly bizarre…
–my seventh grade ccd teacher told us to prepare for a "special" night in which we brought snacks and she would share something very special iwth us. what she did was hang six pack pop rings from the ceiling (a bunch of them all tied together, this is hard to describe) and light them on fire so they sort of slowly burned WHILE PLAYING JOHN LENNON’S "Imagine"

"imagine there’s no heaven…" AT CCD.

so, i kind of ended up confused, to say the least.

Ghosted by Kate @ 01/06/2006 1:28 AM EST

Norbs here, and I’m late to this once again.

I was wondering what the hell the Troll Book Club was, but reading the comments….DAAAAAAAAMN!!! Now I remember! I ordered many a book from there, and went to several a Book Fair (even when it changed over to Scholastic Book Fair/Club)

I don’t really remember Too Much Junk Food, but I probably have read it at some point in my childhood. I DO remember Too Much TV, as well as the one where Sister Bear develops the habit of chewing her nails. (a habit which has sadly come full circle to me in the past year) Speaking of which, why on earth did Mama & Papa name Brother Bear "Brother"? Did they know they were gonna do the Horizontal Monster Mash again in the near future?

I DID have a Teddy Ruxpin, and not once did I catch a "Chucky" vibe from it. (that honor went to this stuffed gorilla that was owned by my mom that she put in my Toy Chest. I couldn’t sleep for 6 years in fear that it would come to life and kill me in the middle of the night. Then it got sold at a garage sale and I’ve been a lazy ass ever since.)

Anyways, Nice article once again, Matt!! :D

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 01/06/2006 2:02 AM EST

Invader Norbert: In the first book, "The Berenstein Bears and the New Baby," Sister Bear is born and until she is, Brother Bear is called "Baby Bear."

Ghosted by Mars @ 01/06/2006 2:28 AM EST

Mars

Heh. Interesting.

Also, I too am an escapee of CCD, and I’ve had it both on Saturday Mornings AND Weeknights (I forget which one). It had its shares of ups and downs, with the Saturday one being that I had ot get up early as well as missing Saturday Morning TV (Pee Wee’s Playhouse was long gone when I went in). And weeknights were crap because even though both classes dragged on and on and on…and on, that I couldn’t finish my homework on that night.

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 01/06/2006 2:44 AM EST

Okay, maybe it is the lack of sleep talking, but I laughed harder than I have in years at your review of TOO MUCH JUNK FOOD.

I don’t know why, but you sir, deserve some kind of award.

Ghosted by AJ @ 01/06/2006 7:12 AM EST

It’s good to see I’m not the only person reading and collecting children’s books. I actually own a tapeless Sprout’s Valley Adventure too, and I laughed my ass off all through it. My greatest recent finds are four ALF kids books… oh yea. And my fav Bernstein Bear book is the when they Get the Gimmes. Awesome stuff.

Ghosted by Mattman @ 01/06/2006 8:29 AM EST

Even if that Tarzan guy is supposed to be Noah’s son, that doesn’t explain why he’s dressed like that.

Oh man, Too Much Junk Food’s art reminds me of the jelly beans from this Muppet Babies book I had. They looked so damn good. Enough to make me chomp down every red jelly bean I saw, even though they were most likely cinna-satan flavor.

Ghosted by RewolfJ @ 01/06/2006 8:53 AM EST

gonna be off topic. . .
anyone watch The Office last night? I am starting to look forward to it as though it’s a soap opera. Dwight steering the boat at the end was priceless.

I remember the book clubs, but I went to private Christian elementary school, so the noah book may have been on the list. I always wondered why the Catholic kids went to church so often. I guess now I know. Kinda.

Ghosted by kb @ 01/06/2006 9:25 AM EST

kb, I was jonesing for that new Office ep like mad. Now that I’m familiar with the storylines from the UK version I was a bit concerned about where they were going to be heading with Pam and Jim but they seem to be taking it in a little bit different direction. Actually the new ep wasn’t as overwhelmingly hilarious as some others have been but the bit where Jim tries to work up his nerve was worth the wait. All verklempt and whatnot.
Back on the Kong topic: Am I the only one rocking catchphrases from the movie? Mr. Hayes’s impassioned cries of "Jimmy!" have totally worked their way into my vocab…I also shout "Koooooong!" at what I judge to be appropriate moments.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 01/06/2006 10:24 AM EST

I think that book clubs contributed to my love of online shopping. I remember them passing out those small paper catalogs. I’d decide what I wanted and, if I was lucky enough to have money that month (or mom was having a good day and able to be talked into paying), I’d actually place an order. Then there’d be that glorious day when you’d walk into class and your gear would be waiting at your desk. It’s the same thrill I still get when I’m waiting for something cool and I see that UPS box at the front door.

By the way, did anyone have RIF (Reading Is Fundamental) books? That was the coolest day of the year. At my school, they’d take you into the library and everyone could have one free (usually very thin) paperback book. I think it was a federal program, but I don’t remember. I still have my copy of Freaky Friday. What a great book. I’m in the mood to read it right now, actually.

kb – I never miss The Office! The only thing that sucks is that now I have to tape it. I only have two favorite shows and it seems completely unfair that the programming gods have seen fit to schedule them at the same time. How scheduling The Office against the most-watched show in America (CSI) is supposed to save it, I don’t know. I’m glad it’s found it’s own niche though. Those first season episodes that were direct copies of the BBC ones just drew unflattering comparisons. The feel of the shows is too different for that. I loved the British version, but once you stop comparing them, you can enjoy the American one so much more.

Ghosted by Lori @ 01/06/2006 10:25 AM EST

"gonna be off topic. . .
anyone watch The Office last night? I am starting to look forward to it as though it’s a soap opera. Dwight steering the boat at the end was priceless. "

I watched it, I never miss it. Yeah, they are adding some drama. My girlfriend and I feel really bad for Jim. I doubt Jim and Pam will ever actually get together. Jim was really pissed and upset. I loved the whole scene when the captain asked someone to hold the limbo stick. Dwight insisted holding it. The captain told dwight usually a woman holds it and dwight responded, yea but I’m stronger. ha.

Ghosted by Geoffinsanity @ 01/06/2006 10:28 AM EST

Lori I totally agree with you that it’s much more enjoyable if you dont try to compare the two Offices. I absolutely love the BBC version and I absolutely love the US version, but for totally different reasons. I’m glad the plots are starting to diverge from eachother, but I will be pissed if Jim and Pam dont end up together in the end like Tim and Dawn did.

When I was little all I ordered from the book club was posters and stickers.

Ghosted by schroeder @ 01/06/2006 11:06 AM EST

Lou Rawls died.

Ghosted by schroeder @ 01/06/2006 11:09 AM EST

Lori, it’s not NBC trying to save The Office, it’s NBC hoping The Office can save them. They’re banking on it helping them win back Thursdays…I didn’t know it was up against CSI though…that doesn’t seem like a great thing to go up against for any fledgling show.
Anybody read The Great Brain series as a kid?

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 01/06/2006 11:10 AM EST

squee
was that with encyclopedia Brown? I read those ones.
I remember reading books where in the end of the book the solutions were backwards. **fuzzy memories**

I’m probably running alot of different series together in my head

Ghosted by kb @ 01/06/2006 11:14 AM EST

Busy blog today! Love it.
I avoided UK Office for a long time since I was really excited about the HHGTTG movie and didn’t want to see Martin Freeman as anyone but Arthur. That movie sucked, so my priorities were totally off.
Great Brain was about Catholic kids living in predominantly Morman Utah. Not sure the time period, but they were the first family in their town to get an "indoor water closet". Illustrations were by Mercer Mayer. I loved Encyclopedia B too.

Ghosted by squee4242 @ 01/06/2006 11:37 AM EST

Hitchiker’s Guide was a huge disappointment for me too. Dont even think I finished watching it.

Ghosted by schroeder @ 01/06/2006 11:47 AM EST

I used to read all kinds of books in school. Except the "icky girl books." Anyone ever read "Arrow To The Sun" in elementery? That is one of my favorite all-time books. I had great reading skills as a kid, so I was already into Clarke, Bradbury, and Asimov by the time I got into junior high. Even now, I still recommend "The Fun They Had" to my young nieces and nephews.

Ghosted by kingklash @ 01/06/2006 12:04 PM EST

off subject, kinda of, everyone is talking about ccd and stuff and religion kids books.

I collect records(for sampling, so the odder the better)I picked up soley because of the cover. I had a weird cartoon robot and cartoon kids on the front. I didn’t really take notice of the title. I go home and play it. During the first track the kids go to a mad doctor’s house. When they get there, he presents to the kids a robot. A robot created to teach the kids songs about god and Dejesus. I take a look at the cover and the title reads something like, Johnny (5) the robot sings songs of joy.

Ghosted by Geoffinsanity @ 01/06/2006 1:42 PM EST

Lou Rawls died.

Darn. Beaten to it.

I remember him most from the Garfield specials he sang on. :(

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 01/06/2006 2:15 PM EST

When I was little I had a record called "The Music Machine" and it started with a skit where two little kids met a magical machine that played songs about jesus. They would stick an object in the machine and it would make up a jesus song related to the object.

Probably the same people that did the Johnny 5 Jesus Joy album.

Ghosted by schroeder @ 01/06/2006 2:17 PM EST

I’m protestant, and I was so jealous when my best friend had her first communion and got all kinds of presents.

Ghosted by Jessica Marie @ 01/06/2006 2:28 PM EST

Hate to post all over the place but. . .
**schroeder** did you also have "Bullfrogs and Butterflies"? I think every church going family in the 80’s had that record. I also remember a SUPER freaky blue guy called Psalty the singing songbook.

Ghosted by kb @ 01/06/2006 3:11 PM EST

kb,

YES! I’m choking on my flashbacks! The trauma of being a cynical, rebellious little girl trapped in a super happy christian world was just too much to bear sometimes. All my friends wanted to BE those kids on those albums, and I wanted to kick them in the head and go home.

Aah, the memories.

Ghosted by schroeder @ 01/06/2006 3:17 PM EST

Amazing article…

I always wanted a turtle-comm more than anything…except maybe a turtle-van.

Ghosted by mtrox @ 01/06/2006 5:02 PM EST

KB: Are you talking about the various "Choose Your Adventure" or "Clue" books with the multiple endings? Those were fun.

Anoher series of books I enjoyed were "Ms. Piggley Wiggley." It was basically about a bunch of brats who had something happened to them: Ex: If you were constantly angry, you turned red. Jealous? Got turned into a frog. They were then taught a lesson and Piggley Wiggley turned them back to normal.

There were a series of "mystery" books about a dog, a cat, and I believe a rabbit that got into Scooby-Doo like adventures.

My favorite Troll Books: The Puppy Nobody Wanted. Great drawing of a sad puppy on the front. Obviously it ends happily. Also, 101 Mummy Facts. I used that for a diarama in one of my middle school classes later.

Ghosted by JLAJRC @ 01/06/2006 6:44 PM EST

Those childrens books sure do bring back memories. I had the Berenstein Bears Junk Food book and the Dinosaur one. I still like to read childrens books and get to often now with a one year old. She has sooo many books because I cant resist the pretty artwork… Golden Books still exist and they just recently rereleased some of the old favorites like the Pokey Little Puppy and The Color Kittens (still cant find this one…GRrrr). I still read alot, mostly fantasy/sci fi books.

I loved Book Fairs andd the Scholastic Book Club. My parents would usually give me money for the fairs and sometimes would show up to go with me when parents could come. They were awesome because they had books with stickers. Books with stickerse rock.

Does anyone remember the name of a book series for children that was focused around a unicorn? She had all these animal friends and the books came with stickers… I cant remember the name of them which is a shame because my daughter would like them.

Ghosted by Kittycatgirl @ 01/06/2006 6:52 PM EST

I posted this on the old thread grr….
I just had a late christmas present. I was out of koolaid, (somebody took it!! I swear they did I had two fruit punches and one orange) and my sister (I am living with her to get back on my feet, I have a job but it’s not much yet) takes out this small tupperware retro tub and she offers these packets from the stoneage! And guess what I found GHOULAID!! It was sweet, it’s sitting in a ziplock packet in the closet now, with some mountain twist cranberry raspberry. Is that just as rare? the art looked very simple. I am keeping it though, and I made up a batch of lemonade tea ice T kind. I am sitting on my high horse now cause that’s my fave. I think Ghoulaid would be better, but it’s so rare I am just going to keep it.

Ghosted by Goob @ 01/06/2006 7:18 PM EST

Kittycatgirl – I totally had The Colour Kittens too! With the record that you played along with it! And at the end they knocked over all the paint cans and made a rainbow…sigh.
Did anyone else have those books that came with records? Mine were all hand me downs from my older sister, all my friends at the time had books with tapes.

Ghosted by Lizzy @ 01/06/2006 8:01 PM EST

I loved Arrow to the Sun. Mainly because the art and various kivas made it look like a videogame.

Ghosted by RewolfJ @ 01/06/2006 8:07 PM EST

I was such a nerd, I entered a horor book of the month club, where every month, a stupid plastic bag with handles that snapped together would come to my house, complete with a bunch of random horror books.

I remember there usually being this little pocket sized book about a specific topic like Vampires or Ghosts too.

It was actually quite sweet, and I kept in the club for months until I got one of those Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books. One picture of a girl with spiders coming out her face. Yeah, that gave me nightmares for weeks and I cancelled it.

Ghosted by AJ @ 01/06/2006 9:21 PM EST

JLJARC
I think it was maybe the Clue books, not sure. I do remember Mrs Piggle Wiggle though. I wanted to go to her house SO BAD. Remember the Slow-Eater-Tiny-Bite-Taker? It was like a pre-teen girl with an eating disorder.

Ghosted by kb @ 01/06/2006 10:15 PM EST

Post #100

I remember one of those Scary Stories books, but my overactive imagination causes me to get frightened…easily.

Also, there’s still no 25th Advert! When will we see the final piece of the X-E Xmas Puzzle??

Ghosted by Invader Norbert @ 01/06/2006 10:20 PM EST

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