On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:52 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > It almost certainly is a reference to Stevenson. Wes has not been sheltered, > just, I guess, to young to have been raised with this book. I am not, and > remember it fondly. I got it for my kids, but I don't think it was nearly as > formative for them as it was for me and my sister, who did not have video > games, or DVDs, or more than 5 channels to compete with it.
"A Child's Garden of Verses" came to me when I read the original post, but as the wording is different, I won't consider that a direct source. I googled the term "A Children's Treasury of" and got the long list that Wes refers to. I searched the term in Amazon and there were a couple of books titled "A Children's Treasury of Literature" and "A Children's Treasury of Shakespeare." So here's my conjecture: a publisher put out a series of children's books, made up of compilations, titled "A Children's Treasury of (Subject)." It was the publisher who was trying to mimic or restate "A Child's Garden of Verses." I don't personally don't remember these books so in my conjecture they came out after I stopped reading children's books. People who did grow up with these books remember the titles and are playing off them in their web posts. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
