{"id":862,"date":"2008-01-14T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T09:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2025-04-25T18:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T18:51:56","slug":"kids-books-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"Kids Books Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A previous post about Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, which apparently I am the only child to have ever read of, has made me curious about how obscure some of the other books were that I read growing up.  I never read the <i>Hardy Boys<\/i> or <i>Nancy Drew<\/i> series, which I&#8217;m pretty sure means my parents should have been arrested or at least fined.<\/p>\n<p>So, which of the following have you read or heard of?<\/p>\n<p>1. <i>Danny Dunn<\/i> series (such as <i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danny_Dunn_and_the_Anti-Gravity_Paint\" title=\"Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint\">Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint<\/a><\/i>)<sup>1<\/sup><br \/>\n2. <i>The Great Brain<\/i> series<br \/>\n3. <i>The Boxcar Children<\/i> series<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I can think of for now in terms of series.  Any other good suggestions? <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\"><sup>1<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/terracinque.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">terracinque<\/a> and I have discussed this series in the past, and I believe she felt that this had been popular about a half-generation before me.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A previous post about Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, which apparently I am the only child to have ever read of, has made me curious about how obscure some of the other books were that I read growing up. I never read the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[513],"tags":[67,211],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-childrens-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3731,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/3731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}