Weekend of Fours: Kids

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories?  If Paul Lynde would read them to me, I'd be happy as could be. :D

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[mellzie-1963.livejournal.com]

The best part about Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories was peeling the "durable" Mylar laminate off the covers.

[misstia]

I agree, Paul Lynde's Uncle Arthur needed to read 'em!

[mystical-chickn.livejournal.com]

I had one of those Uncle Arthur books when I was growing up. Think I got it at a garage sale. I actually really liked it despite growing up in a non-religious household. The only stories I can remember off hand are one about a little boy who always took the biggest/best of everything (so his mom made the biggest things unappetising), a boy who stole some blackberries from a store (he got a jelly donut from the clerk when he confessed), and a little girl who wanted to ride a donkey (she "stole" a ride and the donkey ended up running away with her).

[kiwihunter8.livejournal.com]

I would love to page through those Uncle Arthur's!

[branwynn.livejournal.com]

I don't remember those books at all. But the Crayons? You were low kid on the totem pole if your parents didn't buy the big 64 box with the sharpener to send you to school with in the Fall !

[mellzie-1963.livejournal.com]

I always got the square "38-Colors" box, and I always felt so inadequate. :(

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I got a box for Christmas every year! I loved that new crayon smell! Old crayons do tend to get rather gamy after awhile.

[branwynn.livejournal.com]

You ol' crayon sniffer you ;-)

[almond-cakes.livejournal.com]

LOVE the Uncle Arthur Bedtime stories- I read them to all 3 of my children and they loved them too. I remember first seeing them in the doctor's office when I was a child. The story I remembered from back then was a boy who was in an accident and in very critical condition in the hospital. If I remember right, the boy wanted to go to heaven and a nurse (I think) talked to him and told him to prop up his hand and Jesus would see hand and know to take him to heaven. For some reason, that story stuck in my mind all my life. As an adult, when I got a set to read to my children, we found that story in one of the volumes and it was a hard story to read without crying...sad that he died, but happy he was with Jesus.

As for the 64 crayons....yes, it was a DREAM to be able to own the box of 64 colors to take to school. But my mom always got what the school list said...16 colors. Even to have had 24 colors would have been nice! Finally later on, my sisters and I did get a box of 64 crayons for home, and it was thrilling! Loved reading all the names of the colors. I was rather "dull" or something as I never got why "spring green" was called that till I was well into adulthood and one day it suddenly dawned on me that so many of the new leafing out trees in spring are indeed that very color!

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

I loved all of the colors the Crayola crayons came in. I wasn't the best colorer, but I loved getting new crayons and coloring books. :)