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Once, I was meandering in my school library with nothing important to do except gaze at the array of books lined up nicely in the shelves. How many shelves were there I didn’t know, because, I couldn’t count at that time. Okay, I admit, I couldn’t...
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Hi ppl,I am writing this neither to advocate Chacha Chaudhary comics nor to criticize it. I guess one can derive a lot of fun both ways. ;) Most of you must have enjoyed reading Chacha Chaudhary and company’s adventures and dare devilry..but i would...
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Poombatta :
Poombatta means Butterfly (in malayalam language) Everyone likes poombatta, Its color is very interesting. In my childhood I chased the poombatta a lot. At that time catching the poombatta is an enjoyment. After catching the poombatta...
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In the 1970’s to be poor was almost unheard of in England. Most of my books were from jumble sales and highly treasured. Many of my friends would produce the latest fad toy or fashion accessories and I had my books. My favourite were the...
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Every kidgoes through the phase of MY DADDY STRONGEST :) The worlds’ best things can for ever be quoted as moms + cookies + + miniature delights of colors + sounds from a jingle etc… who is the one who actually and utterly enjoys this? It is these...
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Book Review: Looking Back (The Autobiography) by Dhondo Keshav Karve( Maharshi Karve ) with a preface by Frederick J. Gould (1936)[ Reviewed by Vikram Karve ]Dear Reader, you must be wondering why I am reviewing...
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The best gift i could have ever got from my mom is the pleasure one gets in reading books....... and though many might probably claim ....Enid Blyton ....is something one reads during childhood..........no way....totally disagree with that notion ..........even...
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The things we truly enjoy pass away so quickly.Present is always too slow and never ending...and the future? -always so distant!I think i can include all the books till now, as I am still a child at heart! I dont know where I began...
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I’ve always loved reading (since you could get it by my name) and since I was very young, I’ve always liked good books.
My favourite books since three have started from The Adventures Of Noddy, the fairytales, of course, books from Enid Blyton which...
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I may not be old, but reading the reviews I definitely feel it!
Harry Potter is what my children read. I think god for Harry Potter, it inspired my eldest son to read and he went on to the Lord of the Rings, which he is doing his extended essay for...
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It’s fairly easy to select books for kids upto seven. Much later when they are
into their teens,they are will make their own demands.
It’s the tweenager (age eight to twelve) for whom I compile this list.
Most of the works were around in my formative...
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Hi,
I don’t want to bore you by telling my childhood story. I want to say only about ’’ How i was crazy and what tricks i adopted to read comics’’.
When i was in class 5-6. I started reading comics. Ofcourse subject books became boring. Actually...
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I think I have been close to books since a very young age as I have a elder brother u had a stock of them during those days. The books that I started reading were the comics, the pictures and the story Whewww...The most favorites were Amar chitra katha...
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Well, I wanted to make my (official) comeback at MS really good… I wanted to write on something that was very close to my heart. Moreover, when I went over my reviews, I realized (*horror of horrors*) that I had not yet written on my favorite hobby-...
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Hi everyone! I am an avid reader and I was filled with nostalgia when I some other reviews under this topic. Like our readers here, I too grew up reading books... a very large number of them. Where my friends used to watch cartoons on television, I used...
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One of the most amazing things that I can do- is to close my eyes…. and dream. Dream about flowers, dream about laughter and love and hear the tinkling of little silver bells and smell homemade cake and brownies and dance around with my friends,...
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Chacha Chaudhary
The sentence, ’’Chacha Chaudhary’s brain works faster than a computer’’, used to appear at least once in every issue of Pran’s rendition of the world’s most intelligent man. During the course of his adventures, good old Chachaji...
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When I was a little girl I would always be found jabbering in Hindi, my mother tongue. Teachers at school were strict and they would insist that all children speak in English…because we were in an English medium school. There was this so-called...
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I was a voracious reader even as a kid. Ironically, there are a lot more books these days but kids dont read so much now. There were a lot of books I read as a kid and some of them had lasting influence. Among books I would like to mention ’’ The Adventures...
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A Sunday or a day off is a perfect time to go memory lane and nothing is better than reliving the good old care- ‘less’ and ‘free’ childhood days! The amount of books I read was pretty substantial, so much so that I consider myself...
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“A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.”
I have taken some very special and sweet photographs by my heart and here I would like to share some of those snaps from my collection....
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My favourite stories were and still is the Walt Disney classics like Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Beauty and The Beast.
To this day when on days when I am very tired or just out of sorts, I put on the cd of Beauty and The Beast and just sit and watch...
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In my childhood I was a fan of detective story. I never count how many detective books I have read. Most of the time I have read the books of series i.e. Sharlk Homes,Del Kernegi, Kakababu of Sunil Ganggopaddhay and many more. Besides these I have...
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I was browsing thru MS, reading reviews on books and suddenly saw favourite books of childhood! What nostalgia! What time we had in our childhood reading thru and exploring various authors and lands! I’m sure each of us here would have similar memories...
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I remember that I used to read a lot of books in my childhood. They were of wide variety: from comics in Hindi and English to story books in the same languages.
Lets talk about the books I used to read. I remember that the first book I laid my hands...
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Books, books and more books...my childhood memories are full of books...and I still feel that, children should have a childhood surrounded with books; not only textbooks but other books like novels, comics etc which help them to unwind...
My childhood...
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Dear Readers,
First of all, sorry for breaking the Golden Rule at MS by not posting an All English Review (Second Time I am doing this). Hope you enjoy this as much as I did while writing…. Really took me down memory lanes. I have been “inspired”...
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Hmm…..i’ve got fond memories of this one. One fine day I was playing cricket when my school report card arrived by post. I wondered for a moment whether to bury it somewhere or atleast have a look at it. Anyways…..curiousity...
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My reading started with malayalam books like Poompatta, Balarama, Amar Chitra Katha, Ambili Ammavan (the malayalam version of Chandamama), etc. I don’t really know when I started reading them, but as long as I can remember, I have been reading and enjoying...
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All are citizens of some country or the other. Many are proud to belong to a nation. People are exhorted to be proud of their country, love it and sacrifice their lives if necessary for its defense...
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The title should give you the clue that I was a big fan of A.A. Milne when I was a kid. Winnie and his gang were just too cool. Come to think of it the majority of my reading then was centred around animals. There were the classics, Paddington, Black...
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My favourite books in childhood? It’s gotta be all of the ones written by ’the greatest story-teller of the 20th century!’ (How i know that...i did my thesis on Enid Blyton so spent hours and hours reading and researching on her;)) How did I ever get...
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If you ask me which was the first book I ever read - I cant remember. I’ve had many accidents and concussions which have resulted in bad memory. What I do remember is the fact that I must have read more books than any other kid in my block, school, city,...
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This review is not exactly on all my favorite childhood books but on Enid Blyton and the work of this brilliant writer. I read my first Enid Blyton book on my 8th birthday and since then I have become of her biggest fans. I loved her books as a child...
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’’It’s too hot outside, and you shouldn’t go in the hot sun immediately after lunch. Wait till its about 4:00 and then you all can go out to play!!!’’That was the ultimatum issued by our grandmom, on a hot summer afternoon. It made perfect...
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!!Review # 101 calls for BORN AGAIN experience!!
THE BHAGAVAD GITA
The Bhagavad Gita (BG) is considered to be one of the greatest masterpieces of ancient spiritual writings of all times. for the young and old
The Gita has...
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some people get the best in life...
I would call myself lucky, most definitely, why not...I grew up in a house whereI
could read any book thatI wanted... thanks to the extensive library of my uncle
and aunts... but there was a downside.
With...
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I am old enough to have read most of the great comics in past years. I have also been an avid reader of comic’s books - from Disney to the Super Heroes (Superman, Phantom etc).
I suspect that most of us get old without growing up, and...
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I thought that since I have already written on 5 books I enjoyed as an adult, I would add a similar number to celebrate the memories of my childhood.
Amar Chitra Katha
These comics must be at the heart of every Indian who grew up in the seventies...
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Hmmm, I still read some of these books specially when I can’t seem to find anything
else to read. I think I should tell you I grew up surrounded by books. In my most boring state, books are my sole comfort, specially these:
1) ENID BLYTON books
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My earliest memories of reading are browsing through a book with glossy white page with one alphabet on each page and pictures of things starting with that alphabet.I think childhood is a period very important to the future intellectual development of...
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INTRODUCTION
As some one said that ’’the child is the father of man’’ or something like that, I think that whatever we did and read in childhood will have everlasting experience in our minds as long as we live. When I was a child, I used to read...
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There was this flood of cheap russian books, translated into English and local languages that were available everywhere. They cost so less, anyone could afford to buy them even in our middle class neighbourhood in the backwaters of Delhi.
That was...
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Dear Sweetie,
As my eyes sweep over your collection of books, I am suddenly flooded with memories of your childhood. You are suddenly 6 years old and I remember your innocent smile as a kid and those curious eyes always asking me a thousand...
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Didn’t want this review to be my 50th review but so far my Nec e313 has not given space in mouthshut .. so never the less here I go ...
Books for some of us is just a part of life , the first thing you get in school is books, everytime when...
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Oh, I do remember many childhood books...the Grimm?s Fairy Tales, Mother Goose and others. Yet, the one book that influenced me most, and I still have it, is A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson.
I received this book from my...
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The greatest poem ever known
is one all poets have outgrown
The poetry, innate, untold
of being four years old
-Christopher Morley
Those days of innocence..can never return, but will always be fondly remembered. Whenever I come...
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