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kiddie books
Oct. 1st, 2005 03:59 amBack when I was a kid, one of my favorite to-be-read-aloud-to-me books was "The Story of Wuggie Norple". (That, and "The Dinosaur Who Forgot Her Birthday".) It's a great kids' book, absurd and awesome, about this cat that just keeps growing, and after discussing it with my mom tonight I decided that I needed a copy, and so did she (but she says that we have one kicking around the house somewhere).
So I went to Amazon and searched, and lo and behold it's out of print, and prices start at $20 (for the well-loved taped-up ex-library copies) and make their way up to over $200. Wow. And I understand that Daniel Pinkwater (the author) is an NPR personality and so much less obscure, but it still boggles the mind a bit. I hope it comes back into print someday; the world would be a better place with more copies of Wuggie Norple in it. And the more I think about it the clearer the memories get: my dad, reading to me -- one of the repeated lines is "I hope you are satisfied", and I can remember exactly his intonation there. Sometimes the "I hope you are satisfied" would be immediately followed by me complaining, "Daddy, don't do the voices!" or "Stop being silly, Daddy!" It's possible I was a pretty bratty kid.
So I went to Amazon and searched, and lo and behold it's out of print, and prices start at $20 (for the well-loved taped-up ex-library copies) and make their way up to over $200. Wow. And I understand that Daniel Pinkwater (the author) is an NPR personality and so much less obscure, but it still boggles the mind a bit. I hope it comes back into print someday; the world would be a better place with more copies of Wuggie Norple in it. And the more I think about it the clearer the memories get: my dad, reading to me -- one of the repeated lines is "I hope you are satisfied", and I can remember exactly his intonation there. Sometimes the "I hope you are satisfied" would be immediately followed by me complaining, "Daddy, don't do the voices!" or "Stop being silly, Daddy!" It's possible I was a pretty bratty kid.
