Comments on: Reading List: Best Vintage Middle Grade Books for Summer

By: Marion

Marion — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 20:58:03 +0000

Anna Rose I love this book list. The only ones I am familiar with are The Betsy-Tacy ones and Jane Of Lantern Hill. the books sound so good I want to try and get a hold of them. Understood Betsy is a good read and of course All Of A Kind Family series you can’t go wrong with. Most of the historical original American Girl books are informative ones to read. My all time favorite children’s books are the HONEY BUNCH series. I am a lover of Ballet and Horse books too.
Thank You for this delicious list.
Marion

By: Anna Rose Johnson

Anna Rose Johnson — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:14:11 +0000

In reply to Julie Aamoth.

Thank you so much, Julie! I’m glad you liked the list! The Magic Summer is pretty wonderful; one of those books that improves with every reread! I’ve never read any of the Maida books, I should try to start tracking them down! I enjoyed “Enchanted Castle” as well – especially because I could see the influence that book had on “The Penderwicks”!

By: Julie Aamoth

Julie Aamoth — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 14:05:38 +0000

Thank you as always for doing this! I have been so busy that I forgot it was time to think about special summer reading :-). I start every summer by reading Enright’s “Then There Were Five”, which captures the season perfectly, in my view. I too love Jane, BT, and Half-Magic. I am looking forward to running some of the titles you listed that are new to me by our children’s book book club; I definitely want to read “The Magic Summer”, as I love NS. As for other summer iconic titles, I am partial to “Maida’s Little Camp” (but you have to read the others in the series first) and “The Brownie Scout Mystery” (largely because i have memories of reading that outside one happy childhood summer).”The Enchanted Castle” is another good one.