{"id":1180,"date":"2008-10-02T21:52:49","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T05:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2008-10-02T21:59:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T05:59:35","slug":"my-favorite-childhood-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Childhood Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>San Francisco Boy<\/em> by Lois Lenski<br \/>\n<em>A Swiftly Tilting Planet<\/em> by Madelaine L&#8217;Engle<br \/>\n<em>Tenggren&#8217;s Golden Tales From The Arabian Nights<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All of which I now have copies of; well, Tenggren&#8217;s book is on the way.  Only one alludes me =(.  I remember it was a lavender\/pale lilac colored hardcover book and I think it was called <em>The Valentine Day Party<\/em> (something to that effect).  My memory of it is a little sketchy since the last time I borrowed it from the library was more than twenty years ago.  I&#8217;ve been trying to Google it, but to no avail =(.  I even called my old elementary school in hopes to speak to the librarian, but the librarian never returned my call- maybe she thought I was a nut =}?..  I don&#8217;t even remember the author; only that I loved the illustrations enough to hog the book for weeks at a time.  I think the illustrations were drawn by pencil and filled in with light or pale colors.  I believe it was about a young girl who was trying to fit in; she was a very shy girl who was invited to a friend&#8217;s party?  Any suggestions?  Please contact me through the comments form.  It would make me very happy to finally find it; to be re-united with a very special book from years ago =).  Feel free to drop me a line about a favorite book of yours.  My nephew is slowly accumulating books for his library (he&#8217;s not reading on his own yet but good books are forever treasures).  I&#8217;m always wondering about what books have inspired others, what books have helped to shape a person&#8217;s life.  <\/p>\n<p>*Photocredits: Amazon<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1180 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?attachment_id=1182'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/arabian-nights-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?attachment_id=1183'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/san-francisco-boy-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/san-francisco-boy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/san-francisco-boy.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?attachment_id=1181'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/a-swiftly-tilting-planet-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/a-swiftly-tilting-planet-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/a-swiftly-tilting-planet.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Boy by Lois Lenski A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madelaine L&#8217;Engle Tenggren&#8217;s Golden Tales From The Arabian Nights All of which I now have copies of; well, Tenggren&#8217;s book is on the way. Only one alludes me =(. I remember it was a lavender\/pale lilac colored hardcover book and I think it was &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,12],"tags":[310,311,309,314,315,312,313],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-nycupcake","tag-a-swiftly-tilting-planet","tag-arabian-nights","tag-childhood-books","tag-lois-lenski","tag-madelaine-lengle","tag-san-francisco-boy","tag-tenggren"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}