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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 02-07-2007, 08:29 PM (1 of 30)
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Has anyone seen the new Fabric that has the Dick and Jane from the 50's and 60's Readers. I went to my quilt shop today and they had some and she's putting it on the side for me to make myself a quilt. It took me way back to my childhood. Each block has a new page of the Dick and Jane Readers we grew up with in the 50's and 60's. Anyone else seen them in their quilt shop? I'll take a pic of the fabric when I get it home so you can see what I'm talking about.
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: lendube
Date: 02-07-2007, 09:32 PM (2 of 30)
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Wow, I bet it's cute. I was a little late for Dick and Jane. I had Tom and Susan in early elementary school. There was a dog and some friends too. I would have been in 1st grade in 1962 or so. I'd like to see a pic. Thanks, Lennie |
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From: esrun3
Date: 02-07-2007, 10:05 PM (3 of 30)
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I haven't seen the fabric yet but sure do remember the readers!!! I liked Dick & Jane!
Lyn
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From: PaulineG
Date: 02-07-2007, 10:49 PM (4 of 30)
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This will show you just how far behind OZ is. I had Dick and Jane readers at school in the 70s. What was that dogs name again?
Pauline
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From: JustSewCrafty
Date: 02-07-2007, 10:50 PM (5 of 30)
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My mom has a dick & jane on display all of the time in the guest room. i bet she'd love a quilt made of it! Ill have to watch for it when I go to get stabalizer tomorrow.
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From: MaryW
Date: 02-08-2007, 07:29 AM (6 of 30)
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I believe I saw Dick and Jane fabric at www.equilter.com The dogs name was Spot I think. See Spot run. Run, run, run. MaryW
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From: Patty22
Date: 02-08-2007, 07:54 AM (7 of 30)
Suzie..... I still have my old Dick and Jane readers  We had to buy our books for school (no it wasn't private, a regular public school).The fabric line that made me go nuts was the new Building Blocks by American Jane with the Mother Goose in the panels. I bought two yards of that because I knew I had to have it. My youngest told me the fabric was ugly. She said I was trying to regain my youth. Bwhahahahaha One day I may be a g-ma  My problem is I never met a bolt of fabric I didn't like! ps. www.fabricshack.com and then do a "Dick and Jane" search Patty
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From: material_pakrat
Date: 02-08-2007, 08:03 AM (8 of 30)
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This will show you just how far behind OZ is. I had Dick and Jane readers at school in the 70s. What was that dogs name again? Hahahaha. Try the 80's too!!!!! Then we also had the ones that mum had bought and stored away that she had used when she was a nanny. Cheers, Soph.
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From: cowqueenie
Date: 02-08-2007, 11:00 AM (9 of 30)
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My MOTHER just bought me the new and up coming versions of the books because she thought it was "cute" that My name was in the books she grew up with. UGH!!! She bought a set for my niece who is 7 and thought she would like them too because I am her favorite Auntie! How sick!!! I always grew up with the little "see jane run...see jane do this...dick and jane sitting in a tree" kind of jokes. Funny thing is, I have never tried to kill my parents either! LMAO THE REAL JANE!! "A trip to the fabric store is my therapy"
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 02-08-2007, 06:55 PM (10 of 30)
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We had Alice and Jerry first.. (first grade).. , and then along came Dick and Jane,, then baby sister Sally.. Of course there was Spot the dog and Puff the cat also.. All of those characters were in our Bobbs Merrill Readers in the first grade... I'm 72 years old.. In the 1st grade in 1940-41..
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From: Bama
Date: 02-09-2007, 11:34 PM (11 of 30)
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I was in first grade in 72 or 73. I remember Dick and Jane as well as Baby Sally, Spot, and Puff. See Spot run. Run Spot, run! |
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From: PaulineG
Date: 02-10-2007, 12:34 AM (12 of 30)
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So I had to use the link of Patty's and look at the fabric - not the same piccies as those I remember - a previous generation or so I'd say. Does this mean the stories were such classics that they kept the text and just updated the pictures...? Imagine the authors royalties after the years and years of republishing. Boggles the mind ... P.S. Thanks Mary, Libby and Bama - I thought it might have been Spot but there is also the Eric Hill character "Spot" and I thought I was just confusing them. The latter being a popular fictional childrens character in Australia (although I think he came from England - Jan?). Pauline
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From: pretnichols
Date: 02-10-2007, 09:20 AM (13 of 30)
We read all about Dick, Jane, Sally, spot and all other friends when I was in school in the late 60's, into the early 70's. The fabric is cute, but I don't think I'd have a use for it. However, as creative as all you ladies and gents are, I'm sure someone will have fun with it. Quilts, bags, hawaiin shirts, etc.! 
Peggy
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From: Magot
Date: 02-10-2007, 09:29 AM (14 of 30)
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We had Janet and John - boy, I hated John. "Watch me do this Janet" "Sit there while I play with the remote control aeroplane Janet." "Do the washing up Janet" "John you are so clever" "How fast you run. Run, John, Run" GET A LIFE JANET! I much preferred Green Eggs and Ham love and kisses, Jan
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 02-11-2007, 02:17 AM (15 of 30)
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LOL Magot you are such a good sport aren't you? Nothing like a little womens lib. My husband was like your John when I first married him now he's more like the lovely man I molded, with some worts of course. he he he I remember the names Dick, Jane, Sally and Spot but I forgot all about Puff until you mentioned it Bama. Boy Bama I was married with two kids by 1972. hehehehehe You were a babe when I was an old women. Nahhhhh I'll take a pic of it when I get it home Wednesday and post it here. It's really cute fabric. I wanted to make me a quilt with it, just a lap quilt to remind me of my childhood. Speaking of my childhood, I went to Chalmette today, to the cemetary to visit Mom and Dad and then on to our property. The bulldozer has almost finished clearing off the property now all that is left is my Mom's slab to her house and by back porch and Raymond garage slab. The rest is fresh black mud. I was able to visit with my oldest son at his new shop he least for his diesel machanic business. It was nice seeing him but the rest of Chalmette has a long time coming back to what I remember it being if it ever does. 
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 02-11-2007, 02:23 AM (16 of 30)
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Patty, Thanks for the website. My quilt shop only has the Dick and Jane all over. I'd like to get some of the other for the borders.
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: Sancin
Date: 02-11-2007, 05:32 AM (17 of 30)
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late 60's, into the early 70's. Ha Ha - try the mid 40's. They never did change the pictures or text. Three years ago I assisted with literacy teaching and there they were with only a few changes.  I really have to get some of that material and make some gifts of some sort for old classmates. One I still keep in touch with started school with me! 
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 02-11-2007, 07:20 PM (18 of 30)
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I didn't know they went that far back Nancy. When I saw the fabric it took me way back in time. I had to have some of that fabric but I had already spent a small fortune in the shop that day so she told me she'd hold it for me for this week.
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 02-13-2007, 06:37 PM (19 of 30)
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Those are the same pix that were in our books in the first grade.. That was in 1940-41..., folks..
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From: Bama
Date: 02-14-2007, 07:25 PM (20 of 30)
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Does anyone remember Brer Rabbit? I remember my 1st grade teacher reading Uncle Remus and Brer rabbit to the class at storytime. I tried to find a book like it when my kids were little, but never found the version that my teacher read to us. Maybe because it's not politically correct anymore. In that version the words were printed the way Uncle Remus would have pronounced them and had colorful pictures of all the characters in it. That teacher also read Little Sambo to us. I don't think you can find those at all anymore, tho my FIL has one from his childhood. I'd love to find some fabric with Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear on it. My oldest sister would love it. She used to tell me those stories before I started to school too. I can still hear her saying, "Oh please Brer Fox! Do anything to me..... but pleeeeaaaase don't throw me in that 'ol briar patch!" |
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 02-14-2007, 11:04 PM (21 of 30)
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Bama, I remember Little Sambo. I tried to remember the story to tell my grandkids but forgot all but the last part when he gave all his clothes away and had no more but don't remember the rest of it. Didn't the tiger turn to butter or something like that? LOL
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: Sancin
Date: 02-15-2007, 03:44 AM (22 of 30)
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I can recall Little Black Sambo as being recalled and banned as one of the most provocative books ever. This even before people were questioning the violence in the Brother's Grimm. I do remember as a child liking the book; I think not because of the message, which I probably didn't understand, but because of the pictures and the rhythm of the words. Yes, the tiger did turn into butter. Regarding Br'er Rabbit. The Song of the South was a favourite movie of mine when I was young. I remember thinking the children were dressed in really neat ways - with ruffly pantaloons - when they found Uncle Remus. We rarely got to see movies so it was special. I later would sing Zippee Dee Do Duh all the way to school until my walking mate got very tired of it and I wore out my shoes skipping. I have looked and looked for it over the years. It was finally on TV one night and I set up to tape it, only to find they didn't show it!! 
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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From: Jeke
Date: 02-15-2007, 01:14 PM (23 of 30)
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Dick and Jane. Oh my gosh - I learned to read with them and later taught kids to read with them. Certainly brings back the memories. J 
Jay
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From: PaulineG
Date: 02-15-2007, 03:32 PM (24 of 30)
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I've never seen the original Brer Rabbit but used to love the versions that Enid Blyton did of Brer Rabbit which were originally published in probably the 40s but have been republished several times since. There was no mention at all of Uncle Remus which probably got around any politically sensitive issues. I have to say I agree about the discrepancies in what is considered suitable - my daughter got a Hans Christian Andersen (or maybe Grimm Brothers) book at a thrift shop - and it is full of the most revoltingly graphic violent details (girl heroine was a bit naughty and put on a pair of shoes she was told not to - she was then unable to remove the shoes so she had her feet cut off). How can Uncle Remus be worse than that? I'd rather have my kids exposed to something a bit politically incorrect and discuss the issue with them. It's better than have them read something like the above and have to cuddle them in the middle of the night when they've had a bad dream. I've had to practice censorship with this book. I noticed the story above and told her not to read it but unfortunately missed "The little match girl" wherein the main character freezes - or starves - at the end of the story resulting in a half hour of mopping up - tears by my dd that is. BTW I haven't allowed a live Christmas tree in my house since I got married - this was a result of reading "The little fir tree" by Hans Christian Andersen as a child. My husband loves them so I finally had to console him with technology and bought him a fibre optic tree. Pauline
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From: LeapFrog Libby
Date: 02-15-2007, 07:36 PM (25 of 30)
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About Brer Rabbit, The original book was written by a black man.. His Name was Joel Chandler Harris.. The book or series of stories were titled The Uncle Remus Tales.. We grew up with them in the thirties.. The Briar Patch was always my favorite.. Bama may know more about this.. Harris was from Alabama, I'm pretty sure.. I think Uncle Remus was based on a real man who had been a slave. (Freed after the Civil War, of course)..
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 02-15-2007, 10:21 PM (26 of 30)
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Wow I didn't know all that stuff about the books being banned. I liked the story because it was funny. What I remember about the book was that he was a little native boy who tricked the animals into not eating him for lunch. I guess I was a naive child and didn't see the underlying meanings others did. I don't remember Baur Rabbit. By the way, I looked at the quilt shop Wednesday and they do have the cordinating fabric to go along with the other fabric for Dick and Jane. I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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From: Sancin
Date: 02-16-2007, 01:21 AM (27 of 30)
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I think it was little Black Sambo that was banned. I can't recall the actual story line, just a few pictures.
*~*~*~* Nancy*~*~*~* " I try to take one day at a time - but sometimes several days attack me at once."
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From: woodywoodpecker
Date: 02-19-2007, 10:09 AM (28 of 30)
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Just happened on this site this morning and remembered about the dicussion on this board about it so thought I would add it in case anyone wanted to have a look at Dick and Jane ect. http://www.ladybuttonfabrics.com/ |
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From: ninifav
Date: 02-21-2007, 12:46 AM (29 of 30)
| Also at The Virginia Quilter web site there is wonderful Dick and Jane material... |
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 02-22-2007, 09:57 AM (30 of 30)
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Woodywoodpecker, Those are different than the ones at our quilt shop here in Independance. She has two of those but not the others. I like them all. Paula, Thanks for the site I'll check it out later. I'm off to see Brenda. I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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