hippiechick wrote: 

I'm going to have to wait until I get home.  Work randomly filters things and I can't see that image :(

 Alexandra wrote: 
You reminded me of this one!

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Awesome book!

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

Yup!

 kopak wrote: 
I was 17, and I read it in English (language, not class). For awhile I was into reading all these classics, like Moliere, Orwell, stuff like that. Now I am lucky to get through a magazine article!

This ENTIRE series!

 Alexandra wrote: 
We could probably do an offshoot thread, "Best Children's Books" because some are great and boy are there ever some crappy ones out there.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

Hey! That was my book choice about 6 pages back.....
And that line in particular always made me laugh....all through the book!

 starcloud wrote: 
I do not. Good bye.

 starcloud wrote: 
I can't count the hours I spent reading this one to the kids.  What a great book.  I loved it too!!!

Around third or 4th grade (a series of books that I loved):

 

and because my sister owned them all and they were there - Nancy Drew (don't laugh)


Around 2nd grade:

  and  (read this one to all my kids)

 cc_rider wrote: 
From Wikipedia:
The once-popular "Sambo's" restaurant chain used the Helen Bannerman images to promote and decorate their restaurants although it was named after the chain's co-owners, Samuel Battistone and Newell Bohnett;

 
I saw a bag of cookies from Australia once called Black Sambos complete with black face.  It was in the 1990s.  I worked for a company that made bar code scanning equipment and we would often get sample packages from the field to test/develop with.  I was pretty surprised that they were being sold.

 fidget wrote:  Remember the diner restaurant chain called 'Sambos'? It's hard to believe they existed in our lifetime.

 rmgman wrote: 
I still have this book.  I used to read it to my son when he was younger - not as much these days.  The illustrations are very nice - simple yet wonderful.

 kopak wrote: 

FYT

 hippiechick wrote: 
I had to read this at school. It's not easy to enjoy a book of Balzac when you're 12. Perhaps this book shouldn't be read when you're so young.
In French colleges (literature courses), Vautrin hasn't been referred to (or described) as homosexual until the late 1980's.
I mean, how can you understand a story when teachers don't dare (or aren't allowed) to say things out loud ? Just sayin'.
How old were you when you first read it ?