Calling all book worms from ‘88?
What were popular works of Juvenile fiction in 1988? I need to know what would have been in the bookstores in 1988 that would have interested a ten year old girl. A bright ten year old girl that has read “James and the Giant Peach”, “Nancy Drew”, and “Little House on the Prairie”. It doesn’t have to have been published in ‘88 just popular than. Anyone from that ERA that remembers what they were longing to read? If you know of children’s fiction from that time too, that would be helpful since this character I am creating has a younger sister. Thanks for the help.
Yep sometimes even researchgirl can’t find what she is looking for. It’s funny, but so often I post questions on here and no one can answer them! I have had many questions deleted because I couldn’t find anyone to help me answer them!
PS Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was published in 1964. Bunnicula was published in 1979. Matilda was in 1988, so that would be a perfect one to use.
PSS I don’t want a list of what was published. I want what you were interested in during that time. I want this character to be as realistic as possible.
- Researchgirl
Tags: Book Worms, Bookstores, Matilda, Nancy Drew, Old Girl
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
So you call yourself the “Research Girl” and you can’t find these yourself? Interesting.
I was eight then and I remember being interested in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, “Matilda”, “Bunnicula”, and anything by Shel Silverstein.
EDIT:
You said, “It doesn’t have to have been published in ‘88 just popular than [sic]” and now you’re retracting that with an entirely different comment. You make no sense at all.
April 4th, 2009 at 4:31 am
The Borrowers published in 1952 or 1953
Charlotte’s web published in 1952
My absolute favorite though was The Phantom Tollbooth published in 1961
April 7th, 2009 at 7:53 am
I read those books when I was young. In ‘88 I was about 10-11 and I read The babysitters club books, Anne of Green Gables series, The secret Garden, A little Princess, Little women, Good Wives (sequel to Little Women) Daddy Long Legs, Sweet valley high (cringe) series, A tangled web, I remember a scholastic book I read called Jamie and the mystery quilt….I used to read so many books, but they are the ones I remember off the top of my head….
Hope this helps