Proto-librarian at work: I put paper spine labels on my favorite books (how old was I? ten or eleven?), ordering them by how much I liked them, I think. Here are the ones I still have:<\/p>\n
#2 : My Side of the Mountain<\/em> by Jean George (1959) I think Heritage of the Star<\/em> by Sylvia Engdahl (1973) was #1. I re-bought my original edition but don’t have the same copy. Edited in 2020 to add:<\/em> I do still have my copy of Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth<\/em> by E. L. Konigsburg (1967 – inscribed to me because my aunt went to a reading), which I’m quite sure was originally labeled and would have been somewhere in the first ten because I liked it better than Mixed-Up Files<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Proto-librarian at work: I put paper spine labels on my favorite books (how old was I? ten or eleven?), ordering them by how much I liked them, I think. Here are the ones I still have: #2 : My Side of the Mountain by Jean George (1959) #7: The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#7: The Secret Garden<\/em> by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)
\n#8: Stuart Little<\/em> by E. B. White (1945)
\n#9: Charlotte’s Web<\/em> by E.B. White (1952)
\n#11: Dolphin Island<\/em> by Arthur C. Clarke (1963)
\n#12: From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler<\/em> (1967)
\n#13: Misty of Chincoteague<\/em> by Marguerite Henry (1947)
\n#14: Brighty of the Grand Canyon<\/em> by Marguerite Henry (1953)
\n#15: A Book of Bosh: Lyrics and Prose of Edward Lear<\/em>, chosen by Brian Alderson (1975) – just added 11\/26\/2020, it must have turned up when we moved<\/em>
\n#16: Mary Poppins<\/em> by P.L. Travers (1934)<\/p>\n