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NorCalWeekender
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 Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:16 am Post subject: VOLKSY - The Little Yellow Car |
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OMG! A fellow teacher just brought over a very old kids book that a retiring elementary teacher was about to throw away. It's great! It's about a little yellow bug that's bought by a little family and all sorts of cool stuff. I'll make some scans of it soon and post them!
-Taylor
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TeamSpatula
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Cool. An ex girlfriend of mine had a 3 yr old, and I remember reading several children's books that had Beetles in them...seems like the VWs are popular in those books...or maybe just easy to draw and recognizable...
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EdW
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:52 am Post subject: |
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| I remember that book as a kid. I'm sure my parents still have it around somewhere. |
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pocvw
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I rembember a book when i was a kid that i would read - i can't remember the name, but it had evil motorcycles that would chase down other cars, and I think the main car was a vw bug. Anyway, they are popular!!
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NorCalWeekender
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Yeah, I really dig this...it's well-aged, drawn on a little in pencil (lightly), and some of the pages have fallen out, but it's all there! 
-Taylor
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javabug
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| NorCalRiviera wrote: |
| ...some of the pages have fallen out, but it's all there! |
Do you have the loose pages? You might miss a pivotal twist in the story line.
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YellowSplittie
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I have a couple of copies of Volksy in my collection. Whenever I go to flea markets, I always look through the kid's books for this title. Very hard to come by for some reason. I think it's an ELF book, definitely not a Little Golden book, so it's easy to weed out the ones you don't want by looking at the gold colored spine of the book ( little golden books). Just some tips if you are looking for this...  |
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hambone
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Y'all are crazy fanatics.
Looking forward to seeing the scans......
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NorCalWeekender
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| javabug wrote: |
| NorCalRiviera wrote: |
| ...some of the pages have fallen out, but it's all there! |
Do you have the loose pages? You might miss a pivotal twist in the story line. |
Well, I did say it's all there. And it is.
Anyway, here are the pictures...not all the pages I took pictures of. Didn't want to give the whole thing away. And it's actually published by Rand McNally...go fig!
-Taylor
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OiOiOi
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"Volksy wriggled with pleasure as the whole family pilled in"
Sounds a little dirty for a childrens book...
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"Volksy wriggled with pleasure as the whole family pilled in"
Sounds a little dirty for a childrens book... |
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DeathBus
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oh stop!!! Thats funny as hell!
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2023 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: VOLKSY - The Little Yellow Car |
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I just came across this today. Glad you have the interior pictures.
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| kakarottt wrote: |
| OiOiOi wrote: |
"Volksy wriggled with pleasure as the whole family pilled in"
Sounds a little dirty for a childrens book... |
"they stroked his gleaming fenders" |
You guys are just twisted!!! 
Ok, that is a bit funny!
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67rustavenger 
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| Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:57 pm Post subject: Re: VOLKSY - The Little Yellow Car |
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There was 11 copies of this book available on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Volksy-Little-Yellow-Rand-M...amp;sr=8-1
Now there's only 10. I have young grand kids.
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