Friday, April 8, 2011

G is for Golden Books

I love books and I love to read. My parents fostered our love of books starting at a young age. Memories of them reading bedtime stories, before we could read them ourselves, fill me with joy. Dad was best at doing the different voices.

My love of words draws me to quotes. These are two of my favorites about the importance of parents reading to their children:
One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to their children. ~Carl Sagan
If you want your children to be bright, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be brilliant, read them even more fairy tales. ~Albert Einstein
Once we learned how to read ourselves, birthday and Christmas gifts were usually books. My greatest treasure was my library of Golden Books, collected one at a time.

Golden Books, a Random House property, started with a simple brand promise: to offer quality books for children that would be available at a price nearly everyone could afford (25 cents), and sold where ordinary people shopped. That's fantastic!

Now in it's 69th year, Golden Books (aka Little Golden Books) is still going strong. I blame credit Golden Books for my desire to become a writer. You know what they say about writers and books... 
If you don't have time to read, you don't have time to write. ~Stephen King
Did you read Golden Books growing up? What were some of your favorite titles? 

Source: Golden Books Website

18 comments:

  1. I loved my Golden Books! I always read to my boys and when Brian was learning to read, he would read to his brother (3 yrs younger) or we'd read a story together. Cherished moments.

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  2. I remember those! i also had a bunch for my son when he was younger.

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  3. Love this post! I loved Golden Books when I was a child and I gave a set of them to some of my neighbor's kids who aren't well off for Christmas. I've loved books since I was a small child and the stacks and stacks and even more stacks on the floors, shelves and any other flat surface of my office show that I still love them.

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  4. I loved those books when I was a kid. Glad they're still around.

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  5. I was so happy to see Golden Books among my grandchildren's collections. I read from them often to my own kids. Treasured books.

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  6. I still have Golden Books here that my kids read as kids and now I'm reading them to my granddaughter. Love the Blog, Langley and decided to follow it.

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  7. I haven't heard of these before, sound good though.

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  8. I still love Little Golden Books! There is a Winnie the Pooh Golden Book that I read hundreds of times to my kids when they were little. It's still one of our family favorites!

    Lovely blog you have! Looking forward to following :))

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  9. Nice blog. I have read many books in my life and look forward to reading more.

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  10. I love this topic. I had tons of Golden books. I think my favorites were the Raggedy Ann and Andy books.

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  11. OMG. I still have my Golden Book collection. My favorites were Hansel and Gretel and The Pokey Little Puppy.

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  12. Oh I remember the Golden books! Another sweet book memory from my long ago past.

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  13. I love Golden Books! I read them as a kid, read them to my kids, and now I read them to the grands. They especially like The Pokey Little Puppy and The Color Kittens.

    My “G” post is right here: http://www.word-nerd-speaks.com/2011/04/genetic-link.html

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  14. Hi all,

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  15. Oh man!! I still have a ton of these! My daughter has loved them just as much as I did. Great post.

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  16. I know I had a few, and I remember the Pokey Little Puppy best.

    I'm visiting via the A-Z hop. It's nice to 'meet' another writerly person on Blogger. Have a nice weekend! (I'm stop #879)

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  17. I remember these books. Bet my mom still has them in a box in her basement. And I love the quote from Stephen King. Classic!

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  18. I have a collection of Golden Books that I've carted around for years. In fact, the "Band- Aid" themed book still has the original band- aid that came with it. Which is amazing, given how likely I was as a child to put band- aids on all the nice furniture in the house ;)

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