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Annie Moosee

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114. Island of the Blue Dolphins - thanks for reposting this question! 💕

Wed Jul 2, 2025, 01:21 PM

Jul 2

I used to reread it walking home from grade school in the 70's.

I also enjoyed the Little Prince

And the Madeleine L'Engle books; The Oz series; I, Monty & Hope for the Flowers. There were also some Scholastic Books I enjoyed, but rarely read more than once. Junket is the only name I remember from that series. But there were others about Native American families and sharecroppers' families I kinda remember

And a book called "For the Love of a Donkey"

And I LOVED our Encyclopedia set! It had a companion set of crafts, too, that I enjoyed. And there was a book "how things work, and what to do when they don't" - I loved that one, as well.

True story, I didn't understand alphabetical order until 3rd or 4th grade. I knew the ABC's, it just didn't occur to me that after the first letter, you used the second letter then third to organize things (like is done with numbers).

Still love the Little Prince.

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Island of the Blue Dolphins - thanks for reposting this question! 💕 Annie Moosee Jul 2 #114

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