Favorite Books

Did you have a favorite book or nursery rhythm when you were little?

Mom: My father used to read us "The Little White Indian Boy". We looked forward to him reading it each day to us. It was a rare occasion when he read to us, but he must have enjoyed this book because he took the time to sit down with us in the middle of the day and read it to us.

I really think it reminded him of when he was a little boy and Indians lived in the hills around Bicknell and they would come to his backdoor and his mother, Grandmother Dora Morrell, would give them food.

This story is about a little white boy that the Indians stole from his parents. They took him to their village and raised him as an Indian. Years later the boy had grown and came back to his family.

I have often wondered if my father sometimes thought that maybe he would be taken by the Indians to their village.

Collette: Mom recently told me she used to read a book about Giants over and over to us but I must have been too little because I don't remember it. I googled "children's book written in the 70's about Giants" and came up with "The Book of Giant Stories" I do however remember mom reading a bigger book with some fables which included Rupelsteilskin. I also remember at Christmas time mom would bring out the Polar Express and I thought it was the longest book ever written. When I got a little older I loved to read "Ramona", "The Little House on the Prairie", and "Anne of Green Gables" series.