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Feb. 29th, 2008 10:19 amI'm trying to find fairy tales, folk tales, nursery rhymes and such on CD for Delia at the library. Sadly, there does not seem to be a special section for those things, so I'm having to work at figuring out how to get the OPAC to lead me to them. Figuring out that 'sound recording' is in the title of most of the CDs is helping, but I'm finding a lot fewer titles than I expected.
My memory of being Delia's age involves having a lot of LPs of fairy tales and storie. Some were long dramatizations of a single fairy tale, or of one per side of the album, and some had four to six stories. There was Hansel and Gretel with bits of music (from the opera? I'm not sure). An album with a version of the seven swans and of Ricky with the Tuft. We had Disney albums that included both all the songs and a narrated version of the story. I particularly remember Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Mary Poppins. I don't think I saw either movie for years, but I knew them. I think we had more than one version of The Three Bears. I particularly remember one narrated by Bing Crosby or maybe someone else narrated it and he framed it with songs.
Mom got rid of almost all of those LPs in a garage sale around the time I was in fourth grade. She was shutting down her in-house daycare so that she could go to law school, and she got rid of a lot of stuff that I wish she'd kept. Of course, waiting twenty-five years for Delia to inherit the stuff would be a storage burden, but my brother came along no more than two years after the sale. He grew up without those stories. He had more books than I'd had, but he didn't read all that much. I don't know that there's any correlation at all.
My memory of being Delia's age involves having a lot of LPs of fairy tales and storie. Some were long dramatizations of a single fairy tale, or of one per side of the album, and some had four to six stories. There was Hansel and Gretel with bits of music (from the opera? I'm not sure). An album with a version of the seven swans and of Ricky with the Tuft. We had Disney albums that included both all the songs and a narrated version of the story. I particularly remember Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Mary Poppins. I don't think I saw either movie for years, but I knew them. I think we had more than one version of The Three Bears. I particularly remember one narrated by Bing Crosby or maybe someone else narrated it and he framed it with songs.
Mom got rid of almost all of those LPs in a garage sale around the time I was in fourth grade. She was shutting down her in-house daycare so that she could go to law school, and she got rid of a lot of stuff that I wish she'd kept. Of course, waiting twenty-five years for Delia to inherit the stuff would be a storage burden, but my brother came along no more than two years after the sale. He grew up without those stories. He had more books than I'd had, but he didn't read all that much. I don't know that there's any correlation at all.
