Has anyone ever heard of or read the book "Planes for Bob and Andy". This was my very favorite book for me in grades there to five.
I went to a rural one room country school. The library was a glassed in book case with three shelves. The glass locked doors was rather uninviting. It contained about 50 books. There was an ancient set of encyclopedias that the teachers wouldn't let us have.
However, there was Planes for Bob and Andy. I read the book many times. I liked airplanes and stories about airplanes. I always wanted to fly and this book increased my interest in flying.
I looked this book up on line. There are many of them for sale Some asking around $90.00. As far as I can tell the book was first printed in 1941. I think they were all hard cover books. I remember the green color of the cover.
I can't find if this book won any awards.
So for a while I've been down memory lane.
Gosh… I’ve never seen that book before. I was always into reading biographies of famous people. They were mostly early American leaders, scientists, artists, etc. But then a friend turned me on to mysteries.
ReplyDeleteKay, the main thing is that you wee a reader.
DeleteOh darn! I’m writing on my ipad and it made me Anonymous. This is Kay of Musings in Hawaii.
ReplyDeleteIt looks familiar but I wouldn't have read it because I wasn't interested in airplanes, unlike you :) I do remember the books I had as a child, because we had fewer of them back then, and we read them over and over. It's good to go down memory lane when the memories are so pleasant.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny how this title popped into my head.
DeleteWow! Interesting how they restricted access to the books in your childhood class. What a bummer. So, tell us about the planes for Bob and Andy. Did they make models? Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteI'm from long ago and life was different. the sad thing is that kids didn't learn to read in those schools.
DeleteIt is nice to walk down memory Lane. The title is new to me! I like plane rides. Take care, enjoy your day!
ReplyDeleteMy memory lane is very long.
DeleteThey are new to me. I read the Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, Chip Hilton, and a few others.
ReplyDeleteAll good books to read. I think they came later.
DeleteThe Bobbsey Twins! I forgot about them. Nan and Bart and Flossie and Freddie. I also liked Trixie Belden. Of course, there were the Little House Books. Our elementary school had a small library. I never realized how small until I went to high school and saw theirs. I do have to say that the little library was a wondrous place to me. Of course, our books were not locked up behind glass doors.
DeleteI never heard of this book, either. It's an interesting subject for kids.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to see that it is still for sale.
DeleteA shame they kept books from the students in your school library!
ReplyDeleteIt is great you found one to enjoy over and over again. And it still brings you joy even today!
I think when the school was built ,40 years before I attended. a small library was included. Very little was added as the years went by.
DeleteI don't remember ever seeing that book in my school library. I'm trying to remember what I was reading all those years ago. I'll have to think about that for a while.
ReplyDeleteI was an avid reader , but thee wasn't much to read.
DeleteI've never heard of that book, but I was mostly reading about dinosaurs and rocks and seashells and animals! Funny that the teachers wouldn't let you have the encyclopedias. What was the point of having them, then?!
ReplyDeleteThey were expensive and so great care was taken . I remember that they were very much out of date.
DeleteNever heard of the book. One of the first books I remember reading was See Spot run. Dick and Jane were the characters. :)
ReplyDeleteWell, I had those too. I started before this with another series.
DeleteHopefully locking the books up made you all want to read them more.
ReplyDeleteI was an avid reader. They did have kind of a travelling library where a box of 20- 30 books were circulated. I read the Kon Tiki expedition from those books.
DeleteI have not heard of that.
ReplyDeleteI think this book circulated before many of you were running around.
DeleteI haven't come across this book.
ReplyDeleteSince it was airplanes, girls probably wouldn't have read it.
DeleteIt is sweet that you have remembered that book all these years. Would it be best to buy a used copy of the book or leave it in the cellars of your memory? I am not sure.
ReplyDeleteAlways fun to recall a favorite book:) Heidi was one of mine:)
ReplyDeleteOh I love the old old children's books. I remember the orange (I think) little hard back books about the presidents and some about their wives. I remember especially reading Dolly Madison. I don't remember Planes for Bob and Andy but the cover looks so familiar to me.
ReplyDeleteSounds great book .i could almost see the way you described the one room school and it's glassed library :)
ReplyDeleteMy first most favourite reading were about famous world travellers. They would fulfil my desire to see the world to tiny extent
It’s Not a book that I have ever heard of, but then we did attend school in different countries and different types of school, mine was a parochial school and it didn’t even have a library.
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