My post about "Puff the Magic Dragon" got me thinking. For the fun of it, what were your favorite toys and/or booksgrowing up? I know there's a wide variety of ages here, so this should be interesting...


When I was a little girl, I was obsessed with Strawberry Shortcake. I had almost all the dolls and my entire room was decorated in strawberries. I had a toybox that was shaped like a strawberry and when my sister and I would play hide and seek, I would always hide there. So predictable.


I wasn't a big fan of Barbie. But I liked Legos and race cars and boy stuff too. I remember being in kindergarten and playing with the little boys who liked He-Man, rather than playing with the Barbie girls. Star Wars was popular too, so I played with the action figures. But I liked CareBears, so I wasn't completely a tomboy!


My favorite books were Barenstein Bears and Where the Wild Things Are.