Did Harold and the Purple Crayon blow your mind as a kid?

[angus]

Did Harold and the Purple Crayon blow your mind as a kid?

Voted no because I don't remember learning of Harold till I was about 41 or 42 years old and because in my youth I was a human, not a goat, so I was never a kid.

Nevertheless, I do have a soft spot for Harold and the Purple Crayon because a production company showed up at my university when my son was about 4 or 5 years old and staged a Harold play and my son loved it.  It was well done and actually inspired us to borrow Harold from the local library (which I think was the point).  It turned out to be a good book.  Best of all, the production was one of those family shows promoting reading so we all got free tickets for ourselves and our dependents and the show cost nothing. 

In short, I'm a big Harold fan, but not having discovered it in my youth, and not being an ungulate, I have to vote no in your poll.  I'm sure you understand.

[angus]

Nearly every fond memory I have of 1st grade was associated with books being read to the class. 

I remember the first grade as well.  Mrs. Griffith.  I think she was a good teacher, and she was also very stylish, with her polyester green bell bottoms and large lapels, which in the early 70s were the height of fashion--my mama put me in purple polyester bell bottoms with a white turtleneck sweater for my first grade photo so I could relate.  I also remember the SRA reading colors, and the promotions therein.  What I remember most are two things.  One regarded The Thanksgiving People.  I remember William Bradford, Myles Standish, and Squanto.  I always liked that name, Squanto.  It wasn't politicized back then, either.  Just the facts.  The other thing I remember was the alligator.  The alligator is hungry, and he always eats the larger quantity.  Thus, 9>3, but 17<24.  See that alligator eating the larger number?  It's always like that.