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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Dec 15, 2009 14:37:45 GMT -5
Encyclopedia Brown Does anyone remember this book series? As a kid with choices to read Super Fudge, or Where the Sidewalk Ends, I instead opted for Mr Encyclopedia Brown. Awesome stuff, and each book of the series kept me involved like nothing else. What are your memories of this series?
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Dec 15, 2009 14:41:21 GMT -5
Wait you opted not to read Super Fudge?
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Post by Big L on Dec 15, 2009 14:46:44 GMT -5
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Post by Stu on Dec 15, 2009 14:49:34 GMT -5
Loved this series. And when they actually made a couple TV episodes (with a hot Sally), things got even better.
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Post by ringrust on Dec 15, 2009 14:56:19 GMT -5
I remember this,and I used to love reading these books as a kid.Was"nt there a kid named Bugs Meaney that served as his nemesis?
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Post by FrankGotch on Dec 15, 2009 15:02:44 GMT -5
Loved this series. And when they actually made a couple TV episodes (with a hot Sally), things got even better. Loved the books also remember the shows, and I also had a massive crush on Sally, Hmm wonder what shes up to these days? TO IMDB! |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Dec 15, 2009 15:03:13 GMT -5
I do remember Meany. He was the neighborhood bully, always up to no good.
He was usually the perpetrator of all bad things that happened to Mr Leroy Brown.
And Stu, I don't remember the TV series all that much. I might have to check it out.
As an aside, I did read Super Fudge and all the sequels, but when it came to me having a choice on what to read, it was always an Encyclopedia Brown book.
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Post by FrankGotch on Dec 15, 2009 15:06:12 GMT -5
Well I'm back and this is what Sally looks like today.  She is still hot. Now what to do about that problem on her left arm. |
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Post by Stu on Dec 15, 2009 15:23:13 GMT -5
Sorry Gotch. Pic didn't work.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Dec 15, 2009 15:31:53 GMT -5
I remember Fudge the tv series. My sister had the same haircut as Fudge and everyone in the family would call her Fudge and she hated that.
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Post by FrankGotch on Dec 15, 2009 15:36:12 GMT -5
Sorry Gotch. Pic didn't work. Really? I can see it. Can anyone else see the pic? If not just look up IMDB Laura Bridge they have the same pic I posted on her profile. |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Dec 15, 2009 15:55:19 GMT -5
Works for me.
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Post by lildude8218 on Dec 15, 2009 16:47:46 GMT -5
I never knew the books until after the show came out. I think I have one book somewhere that I got randomly. Looking at the list of books I think the one I have is the "Case of the Disgusting Sneakers." {Spoiler}Bugs did it |
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Post by Tapout on Dec 15, 2009 16:50:10 GMT -5
Great series for young readers. Donald Sobol is the man. As a kid with choices to read Super Fudge, or Where the Sidewalk Ends, I instead opted for Mr Encyclopedia Brown. When faced with quality youth authors like Sobol, Blume, and Silverstein, why choose? I read them all and was better for it. Good times. |
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Post by Rorschach on Dec 15, 2009 17:16:21 GMT -5
I LOVED how this series encouraged ACTIVE reading, where you were not just scanning the words on the page, but paying attention in order to solve the case ahead of Encyclopedia! Not sure if any kids' books do that anymore, but damn, they need to.
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Post by bibboid on Dec 15, 2009 17:23:54 GMT -5
Squirrels never back down a tree trunk.
A simple fact I learned from Encyclopedia Brown.
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Post by Oak: Certified Jade Hater on Dec 15, 2009 18:18:09 GMT -5
I never knew the books until after the show came out. I think I have one book somewhere that I got randomly. Looking at the list of books I think the one I have is the "Case of the Disgusting Sneakers." {Spoiler}Bugs did it Or how about the "Case of the Two-Headed Toothbrush"? {Spoiler}Bugs did it. |
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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 15, 2009 19:59:05 GMT -5
Yeah I was a fan of them. My Elementry School Library had a collection of them and I checked them all out. As simply written as they were the "whodunit" aspect made the special. Plus you learned some cool obscure facts from time to time, which was a bonus.
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Post by Grendel on Dec 15, 2009 21:55:37 GMT -5
Great series for young readers. Donald Sobol is the man. As a kid with choices to read Super Fudge, or Where the Sidewalk Ends, I instead opted for Mr Encyclopedia Brown. When faced with quality youth authors like Sobol, Blume, and Silverstein, why choose? I read them all and was better for it. Good times. I read those all, too. Until I discovered a little book called The Stand by Stephen King when I was 10. It opened my eyes to a whole new different kind of writing and really seemed to freak out my school librarian. Anyway, I remember the series of books. Reading that stuff (and hearing a radio adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles) got me started reading on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 15, 2009 23:00:25 GMT -5
I read almost all of the first series of Goosebumps. Fun, but I think I read them since I could polish them off in like a day, tops, even back then, and my library had a ton of them.
I never read the books, but I do remember hearing the occasional smartass call someone "Encyclopedia Brown" on TV or elsewhere, which I guess is akin to "Good thinking Einstein" or "No shit, Sherlock."
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