Nancy Drew Secret Of Shadow Ranch

Looking Back to the '50s & '60s-The Books We Read

For those of you who went to Carpenter, you'll probably remember some of these classics, we used to read. In class, students gathered in a circle on the chairs pine tiny waving his arms forward that we can have our chance to read.

Our teachers would open the intrepid world of mystery, fantasy and humor. We would take turns reading passages from these books, and everyone share in the recitation.

As we got older we would like to visit the library next to the kindergarten by the Bridge Carpenter. I remember finding some of my classics out there. All the books had that musty pulp smell as you rifled through the pages, looking for adventure.

What did you read as a child?  Here are some of my favorites:

“B Is for Betsy,” by Carolyn Haywood was a real gem.  It was laid out in simple chapters that were easy to digest for a grammar school kid.  Betsy was an imp of a child, with long auburn hair tied into pigtails.  No doubt, she personified the children of the day, prankish, curious, but rarely destructive.

Or how about  “The Little Engine That Could,” with it’s choo-choo cover, and optimistic mantra, “ I Think I Can, I Think I Can…” as it hauled a stranded train full of toys and good food over the mountain.

As I got a little older, I remember the classic “Cheaper by the Dozen,” by Frank B. Gilbreth, about a family trying to meander the challenges and antics of having twelve children in the house.  Their foibles were not unlike what we experienced in our home on Pacoima Court, with six kids and two sets of twins. Remember that whale of a car they used to drive, called “Pierce Arrow?”

And who didn’t enjoy the Nancy Drew mysteries by Carolyn Keene. Remember “The Secret of the Old Clock,” or “The Secret of Shadow Ranch?”  Wasn’t there a public library near Moorpark and Whitsett that housed all these gems?

Of course, no childhood would be complete without “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, “ about an imaginative and mischievous boy who lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, in St. Petersburg, Missouri.

Tom is made to whitewash the fence as punishment for one of his pranks, but soon, he cleverly persuades his friends to trade him small treasures for the privilege of doing his work. What a marketing guru!

Back then, books were books. They were written, read and digested, with no need to edit, delete or re-write the language upon which these volumes were created. The raw spillage of life was there on the printed page for all of us to enjoy.

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