Cinnabar, the One O'Clock Fox

Cinnabar, the One O'Clock Fox | Marguerite Henry

Day 29 of a book from my shelves with random thoughts - my last Henry for a while as we are at the end of the tall shelf & heading back to roughly alphabetical order next time!! I've mentioned before that we used to go to the library every week when I was growing up (Wagnall's Memorial, which looks like a castle). The children's library wasn't huge & even then I was a fast reader, so I checked out & reread favorites regularly & Cinnabar was ⬇️

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) one of them & maybe the reason that I love foxes?? Anyway, set in Virginia after George Washington's presidency, foxhunting was still a sport & Cinnabar actually enjoys the challenge of trying to trick the hunters (including Washington himself!). Most of this story is about one particularly eventful hunt with several close calls along the way.

As I got older, many of the books that I loved growing up made their way to the discard ⬇ 4y

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) bin at Wagnall's & I actually own several books that are the exact copies that I read when I was young, including this one, so the library's loss was my gain!!

As an aside, isn't it funny that they used to print special library editions, but don't any more? Instead of jacket covers, they were hardcovers with the jacket illustration actually printed on the front like this one. No library editions any more, which makes me a little sad!! 4y

Crazeedi That is so cool that you have the special books you read when you were young❤ 4y

TheAromaofBooks @Crazeedi - Part of me is sad because it seems like these books should never have gotten “too old“ to be in the library but... I do love having them!!! One even still has the “check out card“ in the back, where kids used to sign their name back in the day & it has my mom's best friend's signature on it from when she was in probably 4th grade & checked it out! 4y

Crazeedi @TheAromaofBooks that's very cool! Yes I remember signing name to cards when checking out books. I loved working in my library in elementary and high school 4y

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Cinnabar, the One O'Clock Fox | Marguerite Henry

so-so

I chose this book for #childhoodfavorite because I remember being enchanted with it when I read it in elementary school. As an adult- not so much although it has its moments. I will send it to my nephew who is now close to the age I was when I first read it and find out his opinion. #booked2018

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Tomigirl44 I read a lot of her books as a kid but hadn‘t heard of this one; I appreciate your review 6y

DivineDiana @Tomigirl44 Seeing this post triggered memories of my reading of Marguerite Henry‘s books as a child too! But also not this one! (edited) 6y

Jas16 @Tomigirl44 @DivineDiana I read everything by her that I could get my hands on. 6y

Cinfhen That‘s a sweet idea to share it with your nephew!! 💙💙 6y

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