Welcome, introductions, and here's a resource

[badgerbag]

Hello! Welcome!

Introduce yourself if you like in comments or a post.

As I went looking for interesting community icons I came across this great but U.S.-centric book list:

GIRLS SERIES BOOKS:
A CHECKLIST OF TITLES PUBLISHED 1840-1991




The chronological index is pretty neat! We could make polls for each time period.

Please feel free to post about whatever you'd like relating to reading girls' books.

Comments

[badgerbag]

I have all the Betsy books in a recent reprint! And read the Lad and Bambi books too.

I remember best the Lad stories where he was unjustly suspected of injuring a toddler which he'd actually just rescued from a venomous snake, and the one where he's in a dog show contest where he has to follow instructions and navigate around a course and wins a huge trophy. The narration of Lad's confusion as the Mistress directs him around the course was very stressful and suspenseful! In retrospect I find I can't remember what country these books were set in. Were they in the U.S.? Clearly not Australia since the dogs didn't DIE.

[al_zorra]

Sunny Banks was in the New Jersey aristo land of Harvey, Jackie-O's fox hunting crew, making it most convenient for Manhattan dog shows and for the author's visits to his publishers like The Saturday Evening Post.

The Lad: A Dog gives us Lad's death, post a life of honor, filled with great deeds, devotion and triumphs. I wept EVERY time I read it, where ever I happened to be reading it. Lad, of course, was a knight, devoted to his lady, the Mistress.

Talk about class education.

Love, C.