Dreams And Dragons

Remembering these series of scholastic books I had in the 6th grade. do you remember them? I recall most folks were in the "Dreams and Dragons" and I think that book was red. My group, the elite students, no kidding were on a purple book, I wish I remembered the name.. like "Gnomes and Knots"? and "Tales and Tigers" Or something like that. Then there was a green book.

I miss alot of elementary stuff like the hidden chimney in the cloak rooms and how HUGE tall the doors were. The escape doors we'd play in and that unforgettable scent that was inside the stairwells. Then there was this 4th floor that NObody went up. An urban legend says 'the green lady' was up there. Haha.

There were alot of books I read as a kid that I wish I still possessed. Like the one my brother would always read. It was about this rollercoaster car that got lost. Apparently, it left the amusement park, got scared, lonely and lost, then finally made its way back to the park. The personification of such devices thrilled me. The thought that these things had feelings amazed me as a kid. Or there was this green book about a treehouse. In it, there was a kid who built a treehouse and it described how it was constructed. the pictures have been etched in my memory. Or the freakshow book we found in our basement. That was filled with all types of scary pictures. I tell you, people with body parts growing or appened to the oddest places, or the conjoined twins, or just down right scary to described. I think I'm getting sick just thinking about them .I really remember a pair of legs protrudding from a girl's stomach.



UPDATE: researched some more online and found the author of "Gnomes and Knots". According to Google & Amazon, the author is Judith Putterman. The books series was printed in 1980. That would seem about right as I was in the 6th grade durung the 1982-1983 school year. So I was right about the "Gnomes and Knots" title. The Tales and Tigers came to me in my dream last night (wed 11/12/08). I was in the 6th grade when our small advanced group of students were reading this 7th grade level book. The rest of the glass I believe was reading "Tales and Tigers" or something like that