[Michlib-l] series from the 1980's

[Christine Hage]

I read them too and I think there were 191 pages.  Why would I remember
that??



Christine Lind Hage,
President, United for Libraries
Library Director, Rochester Hills Public Library
500 Olde Towne Road
Rochester, MI 48307-2043
248/650-7122

Raising a reader is: Talking * Singing * Reading * Writing * Playing


On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Mary Hanson <hansonm at mercyhealth.com>
wrote:

>  I read a lot of them in the late 50's.  The ones I saw were
> hardcovers—turquoise.  I got in trouble for reading them, too.  We were
> only supposed read the books in our individual class rooms, but I
> discovered a stash of them in the teachers workroom.  I would sneak in and
> climb up the shelves to reach the books.  Someone caught most every time,
> but apparently I didn't care.  I read three shelves worth.
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> Mary Hanson, M.S.L., A.H.I.P.
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> *From:* michlib-l-bounces at mcls.org [mailto:michlib-l-bounces at mcls.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Sally D. Arrivee
> *Sent:* Monday, October 13, 2014 3:35 PM
> *To:* michlib-l at lists.mcls.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Michlib-l] series from th 1980's
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> Childhood of Famous Americans series is from the late 1950's and 1960's.
> I was a children's librarian in the early part of my career and remember
> when those books were moved from biography to fiction.  The versions I read
> had orange covers and the illustrations were done in black silhouettes.
> They have updated the series and there is a volume on Harry Houdini that
> came out in 1969 and was reissued in 1991.
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> Sally Arrivee
> Head Reference Librarian
> Madison Heights Public Library
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> Maybe the Childhood of Famous Americans series?
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> *From:* michlib-l-bounces at mcls.org <michlib-l-bounces at mcls.org> on behalf
> of Kerry Fitzgerald <kfitzgerald at loutitlibrary.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, October 13, 2014 2:54 PM
> *To:* Jennifer Hassell
> *Cc:* michlib-l at lists.mcls.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Michlib-l] series from th 1980's
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> I'm of the same vintage and I believe I read the same series of
> biographies for book reports -- probably in the 4th or 5th grade. These
> books were published circa the early 1960s (or maybe earlier) and featured
> b&w line drawings illustrating the person's life. The covers featured the
> same artwork, and the background color for each book jacket was a different
> color. I remember reading the book on Eleanor Roosevelt (blue/gray, I
> think) and the one on Abe Lincoln (tan). Amelia Earhart was also in the
> series.
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> Big help, right? I poked around with keyword searches in library catalogs,
> but of course these books are long gone from library shelves. No luck with
> the Amazon marketplace either.
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> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Jennifer Hassell <
> Jennifer.Hassell at farmlib.org> wrote:
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