 Hello again kids today. I'm gonna do another book tag video this time. It is the ten books that stuck with you tag I saw Mallory of sunshine do this on YouTube She says that she heard about it on Facebook and that it was a reading rainbow thing and it was intended to be Books that stuck with you through childhood. I'm gonna start with childhood and I'm gonna go up through about high school Number one, I'm gonna count these dr. Seuss books as A single unit. I think all of us here in America have grown up with dr. Seuss for me particularly it was the Sneeches I like every story in this book the Sneeches in particular with Sylvester mcmunkey McBean Conning all the money out of the Sneeches with his star belly machine the the story of the Zax The north going in the south going Zax, but in this particular book This is the one That always stuck with me and my family. It's called. What was I scared of? Little kid running an errand at night for some reason And he encounters a pair of pale green pants with nobody inside them and then they moved those empty pants Then this is One that I've mentioned before I can lick 30 tigers today This is one that I don't hear about it, but it's one of my favorites the cat in the hat introduces His son and his daughter as well as an ancestor of his who was some kind of royalty In the title story the little boy brags that he can lick 30 tigers, but as the story goes on he He backs off more and more Until finally there's only one tiger left on his list and he says oh, I want to eat lunch right now But here's the story that gets me It's called the Glunk that got thunk It's about the little girl using her imagination to think up imaginary friends and she comes up with this creature called the Glunk and It gets on the phone and starts making long-distance calls and won't stop talking So the brother and sister have to get together and pool their mental powers to unthink the Glunk and Here's the Here's the horrible demise Next here's another book. I showed you once before it's called Big Max this character is a The world's greatest detective and everybody knows it He gets around by blowing air into his own umbrella and he's hired by a king To find out what happened to his favorite elephant I like Big Max apparently there are other Big Max books, but I never saw those now we're into the 1970s album of dinosaurs of course dinosaur books Like every other kid. I was very much into dinosaurs But I was also a talented artist I was very much interested in These little ink drawings that decorated the the borders and the story headers of this book They just told tremendous little stories the imagery and the information from this book and From other books in this series Made a great impression on me and of course always stuck with me speaking of dinosaurs 1975 when I was in I was 10 Maybe nine. I was in third maybe fourth grade. I picked up this book and I actually read it The first half of the book is an excellent history of paleontology itself but then it goes into great detail about the theories of dinosaurs Being the ancestors of modern birds now the keep in mind This was in the early 70s by the time the 90s came along and everyone was talking about this kind of thing on the Discovery Channel and by the time Jurassic Park came along this this idea was decades old for me I was way ahead of the curve on this because I was seriously interested in the subject matter For my fifth choice. I want to talk about a set of encyclopedias that was in our house They belong to my mother when she was young She said that she remembered a door-to-door encyclopedia salesman coming To her house in the early 1950s and selling this set of encyclopedias to her parents Which she inherited and brought to our house It was a tremendous resource and beautiful and very classy. I don't remember how many volumes there were it was probably Britannica I don't I'm ashamed that I don't remember the name You don't see encyclopedias in book form anymore at all But this particular set included something that you only saw in The best encyclopedias Certain articles included a series of transparent overlays I'll try to find some pictures of this sort of thing online and show them to you and you could use these things to peel back layers of diagrams of the human body or the human eye or a cellular structure or Jet engines or hydroelectric dams. They were beautiful. We had this in Our living room library. We had a library of books in our living room Most people don't grow up with that, but we didn't know that as My sisters and I got older. We each got our own set of encyclopedias That we kept in our own rooms. Those weren't nearly as classy. Those are in the 1970s I'll never forget that set of encyclopedias And I'll always wonder if I'll ever get to see it again Well, I didn't have to wonder for long because this is the internet and the internet is in fact magic The Britannica title was a goose chase. What I was looking for was the American people's encyclopedia and once I realized that I'm finding it everywhere You'll notice it was designed to look a lot like Britannica and I'm sure that wasn't an accident The books really are beautiful with the reflective gold printing on the spine the ornately embossed covers and take a look at the lavishly illustrated endpapers and Luckily, I did find one eBay seller who bothered to photograph the illustrated Transparencies I was talking about here. You can dissect a frog in your own living room I am going to acquire one of these encyclopedia sets and I will do a special video just for it All right, moving on to my later grade school experience. I've reviewed orphans of the sky I'm going to let this book represent this particular period in my Reading experience. I believe That this was the very addition That I would have read When I was in fifth or sixth grade and done book reports on This one particular book was unforgettable for me. There are other books of that same period were like attack from Atlantis and tunnel through time. I was all I was doing book reports on Arthur C. Clark and Isaac Asimov and Heinlein and Silverberg and Kafka when I was in Sixth grade I was doing book reports on Kafka every other kid in School and I'm not exaggerating when I say this every other kid in school was literally passing around and taking turns Doing book reports on Charlotte's web and Stuart little that's all they did They were literally just taking turns standing up in front of the class and doing oral book reports on Charlotte's web and Stuart little I never did those I had disdain for those this represents what I was reading in Later grade school now the next book. I want to talk about In search of the save opotumus. I did a book report on this when I was in fifth grade It is a picture book. It's one of the the serendipity books Now you can probably guess what happened when I did a book report on this in fifth grade English class The teacher was furious Picture book was unacceptable to her. We're supposed to be reading novels From my perspective a book was a book a book is a Good book is a good book whether it has pictures in it or not And I liked the art in this book They had dinosaurs in it the the art was cartoony and unusual I Especially like this page with the giant dinosaur coming up out of the water But the teacher was furious took me out in the hallway chewed me out I Got a low grade. I don't remember how low the grade was but Considering the other stuff that I was reading I would have thought or at least at the time I thought That I didn't need to keep proving that I could read novels over and over I could just do a report on a book that was good Anyway, I was wrong about that. So what happened next was this particular teacher She was very new agey kind of an old hippie She was constantly talking about Jonathan Livingston seagull and how that was her favorite book Jonathan Livingston seagull this Jonathan Livingston seagull that so My next book report. I did Jonathan Livingston seagull and I got an A double plus And too easy She was too easy to figure out 1979 okay, I'm moving on to junior high. It is 1979 Star tunes Star Wars had come out. I had discovered The comics and sci-fi conventions. I bought this at one of the conventions my sisters and I Poured over it every page laughing and laughing. This was published in 1979. It's It's a Star Wars cartoons. It's hard to describe To people how quickly Star Wars post-1977 Immediately after 1977 how Star Wars completely took over Science fiction and fandom. It's hard to describe Anyway, the part of the book that really struck me and really stuck with me Was this section by Phil Foglio called our con report In which he makes fun of the convention community. He always wanted to meet Todd Bake was always struck by Todd Bakes work And he goes to the convention says I meet Todd Bake. He is struck by my work And then here he is in front of a wall full of Todd Bakes art To me these scribbles came to represent bad convention art and they still do and Then the here he is Scratching his head and accidentally winning a giant portrait of Spock by Todd Bake Believe me as an artist. I Understand the resentment of seeing a clearly inferior artist becoming successful So so yeah, star tunes Okay now high school. I've mentioned this series before Jack Chalker's five book. Well world series a friend of mine Gave me book to as a birthday present when I was in junior high and I didn't read it. It had an interesting cover but I let it sit for a couple of years and And Then when I did read it, I had to get the next book Which was a book three of course then I went on to get the book one and then books four and five, but book two is The one I would recommend to people. You don't need to start with book one book two does the job I think it's about a scientist who has created a sentient computer the size of an asteroid In fact, it's built into an asteroid this machine can generate an electromagnetic field inside which Any object made of ordinary matter living or not? Can be mathematically be Rewritten by the computer it can literally rewrite the reality of Whatever is contained within the field. He's not just rearranging atoms. He's rewriting reality This guy concludes that if this computer he's built can rewrite and maintain reality locally then there must be a Universal computer somewhere that is writing and maintaining the entire universe This this computer at the center of the universe turns out to be the well world I found this concept to be so striking and so vivid It's it's stuck with me always Chalker's style is not very sophisticated In fact reading these books as an adult. I found them to be kind of amateurishly written it was the idea of The well world that kept me going through the whole thing Okay, moving on This is a book that I don't have anymore. It's Mark Scott Zekri's Twilight Zone companion Books like this became a fad shortly after but this one was the first I think it was the first time I had seen a book that listed full information descriptions and criticisms of Every episode of a TV show I had just discovered Twilight Zone for myself on local Late night syndication and it started recording them on VCR. This was like 1981 We were the first people in our town to have a VCR so I so I was just sticking that tape in the VCR every night and Getting what reception I could and recording every episode I could get of Twilight Zone and then this book came along It was a goldmine Later on in high school when I I think I was a junior in high school Our English teacher assigned us to write a research paper about an author and I announced that I was going to write about Rod Serling Once again, I was butting heads with an English teacher. She didn't like that. We were supposed to be doing Robert Frost And here I am wanting to write a research paper in a high school English class on a television writer She didn't like that, but I stuck to my guns and I used this book as my primary resource I was in a small town. I couldn't go to big libraries. There was no internet resources were Really difficult to come by. There was a Twilight Zone magazine being published at the time Which was a monthly collection of science fiction short stories I think I wrote to someone there looking for more information about Rod Serling. I don't think anything came of it Anyway, I did my research paper on Rod Serling So there is that it have already done 10. I Guess so All right, more reviews coming up later this week. See you then. Bye You can support 30 seconds sci-fi and my other projects by becoming a patron. There's a link in the description below