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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Zinnie, post: 445038, member: 9303&quot;]I had Nancy Drew as a series but not all of them.&nbsp; What I remember most from grade school days were the Bunty paper magazines sent to me by a pen pal in Scotland, which my 4th grade teacher, a Scottish woman, set up for those of us who wanted one.&nbsp; My pal&#039;s name was Valerie Shedden and she lived in Edinburgh.&nbsp; She was two years older though so we only wrote for a couple years but she sent me a half dozen Bunties and a rabbit&#039;s foot with a glass amethyst for my birthday, which I still have as well (and it hasn&#039;t been eaten down by bugs!).&nbsp; I remember &#039;The Four (Five or Six?) Marys&#039; as being the most intriguing of the comics inside but also a funny little cartoon girl who always got into a mess.&nbsp; These are packed away but I pull them out every decade to check their condition.&nbsp; Quite frail now but still readable.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Funny how all these connections to Scotland go way back because even now my fav series are from there as well - I love the (Ian Rankin) Inspector John Rebus books (just put a hold on his latest!!) and Denise Mina&#039;s works are tops also.&nbsp; Anything police procedural that isn&#039;t overly misogynist (which eliminates a lot of popular american male mystery writers on my list) and has more Sherlock than dumb luck at finding the solution.</p><p><br /></p><p>Other books come to mind from way back as well - the Half Magic books by Edward Eager (loved the illustrations).&nbsp; And a different book by Astrid Lindgren called &#039;Mio, My son&#039; somehow grabbed my heart.&nbsp; I found it in the library one day when in my 30s and just the first illustrations brought tears to my eyes.&nbsp; Books are such incomprehensible treasures but again it has to be the inherent, deliberate (I think) power of a written language and our brains ability to transform these lines and scribbles into a visual reality that makes us more human than anything else.&nbsp; And why it&#039;s so important we never lose it.&nbsp; Thanks for this thread!&nbsp; Very fun. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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