Submitted by Boura S

Wouldn’t the world be a better place if it were smothered in pancakes or crushed under the weight of meatballs? Well, okay, maybe not if they’re not Aunt Gertrude’s meatballs, but if they were tasty and delicious meatballs, we wouldn’t mind. It’d be handy if, along with snowing mashed potatoes, it also rained gravy.

Submitted by Suzette P

Ramona Quimby was always getting into trouble in a funny way or getting upset about something hilarious. Like the time she thought Mrs. Whaley hated her or the time they put Cream of Wheat in the cornbread. Ramona was the embodiment of every child, with all of the rediculous situations she would either find herself in or put herself in.

Submitted by Kristin O

“When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become Real.” – The Velveteen Rabbit

The Velveteen Rabbit was such an amazing story for how captivating it was and sad at the same time. Why did we like hearing this story so much? Because of the happy ending?

Submitted by Tamara K

Remember all those great lessons McGruff used to teach us during Saturday morning cartoons? Then he had that cartoon, remember that? Did you ever write to McGruff and get the Scruff comic book?

Is this why Regina’s career was so short lived?

Submitted by Priscilla O

We’d forgotten all about the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series until we saw the above photograph. Stephen Gammell’s illustrations brought all of the terror flooding back into our memories. If you were lucky enough to check this one out of your school library (since it was always checked out) or your parents ordered it for you through the Scholastic Books program, you probably had the wits scared out of you more than once while reading it.
Not until we started researching did we find out that Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was the most contested book between 1990-2000 because of it’s sometimes graphic descriptions of violence. We’re glad the old fuddy-duddy’s who tried to have this book removed from our libraries didn’t succeed, because our literary experiences growing up would have been far less rounded without this great collection.