Nostalgic Childhood Books

The first book I thoroughly enjoyed and thought about long afterwards was called, Pond Life by Golden Guides. The Golden Guides published a series of informational and illustrated hard cover books. The illustrations were so well done that they look almost identical to how specific types of animals actually look, if you were to see them in real life. I remember how my brain was still developing, and how facinated i was, although i couldn’t speak this, i was amazed by how identical the images looked in comparison to real life. I’d spend the early part of my childhood daydreaming of how that’s possible to have something inside of a book, look like something else, without having that actual something be right in front of you. Life-like drawings in story books were more than accepted in my nightly line up of bedtime short stories. In the early 1990’s, the couple of years right before Nickelodeon’s ‘Nic at night’ widely became popular in the hours before shut eye. You would settle down before bed with some books. Stellaluna, Verda, The Giving Tree, Baby Owls,