Childhood memories?

4nnabella

Two films I remember watching over and over again in my childhood were 'The Slipper and the Rose' (musical version of Cinderella) and 'The Last Unicorn'. I now have them both on DVD and still watch them occasionally. Although I would love to find a remastered version of The Slipper and the Rose as the one I have is fairly poor quality, but still watchable!

DianneB

I loved the original Andy Pandy, Tales of the Riverbank and the Woodentops, everyone used to be able to do the spotty dog walk!!

jakes-mum

The labyrinth I loved that film, it was the first video I ever owned and my middle sister bought it for me for christmas (i really should get it on DVD as I miss singing with David) The first film I ever saw at the cinema was the carebears my friends dad took us, I just remember being amazed at the size of the screen :rotfl:

I remember Button Moon, Postman Pat (before he got married and had a child! :eek:) My sisters watched Trumpton and camberwick green but I cannot remember them at all :eek:

PetuliaGristle

Hi browneyedbazzi is it this book?

http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2007/12/gingham-dog-and-calico-cat.html

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

I'm at the stage where I'm
thinking about having kids and I really want to track down a copy of the book I used to read at bed time when I was little...full of poems like 'winkin blinkin and nod' and 'the gingham dog and the calico cat'. It was a lovely hard back book full of brilliant poems with great illustrations.

I loved that book and I can't imagine having a baby and not being able to read from it!

browneyedbazzi

PetuliaGristle wrote: »

Hi browneyedbazzi is it this book?

http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2007/12/gingham-dog-and-calico-cat.html

That's a different one... the one I had is:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Field-Eugene-Clare-McKinley-WYNKEN-BLYNKEN-AND-NOD-/140422674926?pt=Antiquarian_Collectible&hash=item20b1d7f9ee#ht_500wt_1202

I've just been chatting to my mom (who's still back in Canada) and she thinks she has the original somewhere but it's in pieces thanks to my niece...I've asked her to send the bits to me so I can have it re-bound.

Guinea_2

Does anyone remember a Literacy programme that had a floating roboty thing who was orange with human arms I think? I think he used to show you how to spell words or write individual letters with a magic pencil?

Thanks

Jinx

The one I watched every xmas was the Wizard of Oz on xmas morning.... I still watch it when its on and my teenage daughter hates it lol However, I've obviously brainwashed her as we went to see 'Wicked' recently.

Saturdays were Knight Rider, Airwolf, the A-Team and watching the wrestling with my grandad shouting at the tv lol

MissGolightly

jakes-mum wrote: »

The labyrinth I loved that film, it was the first video I ever owned and my middle sister bought it for me for christmas (i really should get it on DVD as I miss singing with David) The first film I ever saw at the cinema was the carebears my friends dad took us, I just remember being amazed at the size of the screen :rotfl:

I remember Button Moon, Postman Pat (before he got married and had a child! :eek:) My sisters watched Trumpton and camberwick green but I cannot remember them at all :eek:

i absolutely adored the labyrinth, and it would be no exagerration to say i watched it once a week for about a year and a half when i was little. just as good watching it as an adult, but for some reason david bowie's crotch wasn't so shocking when i was little... how did they get away with that??

also loved the goonies, the goonies r good enough! :rotfl:and edward scissorhands, my mum is amazed it didn't scare me, but i was a sensitive little soul and felt his pain even as a child.

have watched them all with my little niece, and she loves them just the same. we watched edward scissorhands when she was 7 and she turned to me at the end and said "i know he looked scary, but it wasn't his fault he was made that way" tugged on my heartstrings a little.

i had all the disney films. oooh, just remembered the fox and the hound, loved it too. i didn't watch a lot of tv as a child, i would have just played and read most days, but was allowed unrestricted access to the video player early on saturday and sunday mornings, i was video mad!

carolan78

Guinea wrote: »

Does anyone remember a Literacy programme that had a floating roboty thing who was orange with human arms I think? I think he used to show you how to spell words or write individual letters with a magic pencil?

Thanks

I remember that the TV used to get rolled out in school for us to all watch it in the hall or music room. I think it was on bbc2 along with all the other educational programmes but I can't for the life of me remember the name.

I have just found the Badgerman from the same programme on You tube...I feel 8 years old again lol

carolan78

Yayy I have found him it is Wordy from Look and Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_Read#Wordy