Heart of the City by Steenz for May 01, 2019

Start with “The little engine that could”, Heart.

I believe my favorite books growing up were the Berenstein bears (by Stan & Jan Berenstein), Little Critter (Mercer Mayer), and Clifford the big, red dog (Norman Birdwell).

A historical reference from the ancient past. (Google on “You’re no Jack Kennedy”.)

My faves were Batman and Spiderman comics.

iirc, she got tied up about as much a Penny Gadget.

There will be puzzled readers today. I remember Lloyd Benson.

She had no problem coming up with the Library Turtle story so why the writer’s block now?

I was busy immersing myself in Heinlein, Asimov, and Clark at that age…

Oz books followed by 60 years of SciFi.

Not very supportive, mom.

I loved the Nancy Drew books and still love detective, murder mysteries.

I loved Louisa May Alcott. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to replace Little Women… and I still re-read it and hope that Beth doesn’t die :( Silly, I know..

Heart is in middle school. She should be reading juvenile and curated adult fiction, not picture books. Mark T. needs to talk to some librarians.

Well, mom, Nancy was in grade 11 (?) so yes, Heat’s not there yet…but she’ll catch up, I’m sure.

When I was a kid, Nancy Drew was supposed to be a “girl’s book”, but I enjoyed them anyways. I thought them better than the Hardy Boys. But all time favorites? Bradbury and Asimov. Particularly Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles and Asimov’s robot stories.

Nancy Drew was kind of sappy but the adults were idiots.

Good riposte, mom!

I am with you mom, read Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, Mary Higgins Clark and the list goes on. Also loved horses so many of the horse books out too.

I read an old book of “Tom Swift Jr.” called “Tom Swift and the Asteroid Pirates”. That book got me interested in Science.

I was an weird kid so I read Goosebumps and its knockoffs and Scary Stories to tell in the Dark. (The originals with their nightmare fuel illustrations)

you have to be old to actually remember what that is referring to.

I have to confess I’d never heard of “Pellucidar” by Burroughs so I had to Google it. I now have a copy ordered from Amazon. Never stop reading you guys!!!

I didn’t read Nancy Drew. I don’t know Nancy Drew. But I still know Heart’s no Nancy Drew.