Books from 1998 | Re-reading 3rd Grade Favourites

[@aubreyjane6659]

I feel like this series is all leading up to something sinister....the 7th grade.

[@BooksandLala]

Hahahaha

[@beckyduff]

Right??!! What happened in the 7th grade!!!???

[@PaolaJulissa]

When you said “power girls” i thought you were inspired by the powerpuff girls 😂

[@leylayurtsever8127]

samee

[@TheNovelSanctuary]

Same!

[@pznel]

Same

[@thebookishpanda6992]

I thought the same thing.

[@thebookishpanda6992]

I'm going to have the Big Comfy Couch stuck in my head now.😆

[@funfuz]

Your friend and boyfriend didn't mention you in their presentation?! BETRAYAL! I would've been heartbroken if that had happened to me.

[@plussizemommy2B]

funfuz - I mean obviously it bothered her she remembered it 20 ish years later.

[@hannahheartsbooks6]

I love how every girl you were inspired by is wearing striped leggings and you work for a leggings company!!

[@susannameusel]

That edition of the Chronicles of Narnia is beautiful!

[@leylayurtsever8127]

Liam looks sooo much like you when you were a kid!

[@TrekkieCSI101]

Agreed!!!

[@inneeko]

When you started playing the big comfy couch theme song I literally had a million memories come back holy moly

[@beckyduff]

I think you mean holy Molly** 😂

[@RachelCerys]

I just love how you remember all this, I have such an awful memory I can barely remember anything from last year let alone when I was in year 2 (UK version fo grade 3) ahah

[@issie4294]

I'm the exact same aha I know I read but I have no idea what

[@brookeammerman8279]

OMG THE PARENT TRAP IS ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES!!!

[@TheMamaMoments]

As a middle school teacher, I totally agree that the classics are not necessary for kids now a days to read. They can relate more to books being published now than books written by dead white men from the 1800s.

[@skurinski]

yeah cause us born in the 80s could relate to it too... its not about being able to relate to it, its about its importance.

[@Luisito45ful]

skurinski I think students should only read classics if they are in honors classes or classes that are more focused on literature. I see no point in kids reading classics anymore lmao

[@TheMamaMoments]

@@skurinski What's so important about a classic that can't be found in a more current release where more than one ethnicity, culture, and sexual orientation is represented?

[@Luisito45ful]

Mrs. Dunn Reads Maybe some classics that are still relatable today are 1984, Fahrenheit, and Animal Farm. But those books should be read in high school I think.

[@madisondemille5244]

How do I like a comment more than once

[@theneverlandreader9932]

Amelia Bedelia is another one that I loved when I was little

[@phantomgirlheart7035]

Same

[@alisonnewman7572]

That picture of you a Darth Maul had me crying with laughter... 🤣 love that pic and love your channel ❤️

[@LauraGoingPlaces]

I've just had to pause the video because I can't stop laughing and crying at that photo! I think it's the handholding specifically.

[@djungeltea]

As a Swede I'm so happy you read Pippi! The author Astrid Lindgren is portrayed on our 20 SEK notes :)

[@negativenuss]

I seriously need to get my hands on all the books... I only watched the movies of Pippi, Michel, and Ronja (I have no idea how the movies are called in English I'm sorry ;-;)

[@melanieheath9829]

I watched the Pippi cartoons when I was a munchkin and my mom used to give me big long pigtails and she'd call me Pippi 🤣🤣🤣 (from Canada).

[@sassygale8]

I actually prefer the cartoon movie of Charlotte's Web that came out in 1973 over the Dakota Fanning version. I owned the VHS tape and used to watch it all the time

[@angelicacordero6373]

I legit started crying when you had Molly & The Big Comfy Couch song in the background. I still have my Molly doll and it just brought me back!

[@kelley.s]

Just opened KZbin thinking "I just want to watch BooksandLaLa." So excited!

[@tanialasagna2834]

Omg! Books I distinctly remember reading and loving back in my youuuth: -Indian in the Cupboard -Holes -Into the Land of the Unicorns -Are you there, God? It’s me, Margaret -The True Colors of Caitlynn Jackson (aka my introduction to hard hitting contemporary!) -I second The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe -anything and everything Goosebumps

[@clairejkay]

Into the Land of the Unicorns! I’ve been trying to remember the title of that book, I could vaguely remember the plot and what the cover looked like

[@tanialasagna2834]

Gee Emmy haha yes! I remember doing a class presentation on one of the Goosebumps books... something or another about a creepy killer snowman?!?

[@tanialasagna2834]

fairlyclaire oh, it’s sooo good! That whole series is like candy for the eyes! 😭💕

[@wolfferoni]

Yes, Goosebumps is what I started reading when I was 8 and I pretty much read every single one that was out at the time. I remember continuing to read them when I was 12-13. I remember watching Indian in the Cupboard when I was 5 or 6 at school. I had to read and analyse Holes when I was 12 for school so I am so over that book and movie haha

[@AikidoRose]

Just three of the Chronicles of Narnia have been filmed, “The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe”, “Prince Caspian”, and “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader”.

[@Alex-pb5rf]

Actually, the BBC did adaptions of those three and The Silver Chair in the 80's :) Disney only did those three but they were nowhere near as good as the BBC ones (which also had the most bomb theme music)

[@thebookhollow5517]

Cassy the bbc movies were good but the beavers were scary

[@Paul_the_Bookworm]

@@Alex-pb5rf wholeheartedly agree

[@cindiadkins9510]

the striped shirt you’re wearing talking about the secret garden was one lydia wore on teen wolf and i spent months tracking down in like 2016 😩😂😂

[@moonbook12]

Well maybe four year later you will find it now

[@BookaflixTaylor]

Oh my gosh SAME!

[@kimberly4711]

The series looks lovely on your shelf! But you're missing the orange Pantone (Treasure Island). I saw that Book Depository still stocks it.

[@BooksandLala]

I am indeed, I'll bet bookoutlet will stock it someday 🧡

[@arp711]

Honestly just from the intro clips this is already exactly what I needed today thank you queen

[@mpsensha]

These videos make me wish I had started reading journals in my childhood.

[@pumpkinsspiced]

I love that we're essentially the same age (about 6 months apart), so all of your childhood favorites videos are also a trip down memory lane for me, too! :)

[@cakybea81]

Omg! I’m a Pre-K teacher and I still show my students episodes of Big Comfy Couch. They love it!! Especially when she does her little exercise where she looks like a clock. Loved this video Kayla!❤️

[@lovelather9012]

No Kayla, I was in a band with MY friends called The Power Girls 😂😂 but no, really, I was. Liam looks JUST LIKE YOU!!

[@missnewvillage]

The big comfy couch takes me back. I used to have a Molly doll. I loved the clock segment from that show. I always wanted to do it but I have no flexibility. Those Pantone books are gorgeous. I might get them if they are still on the book outlet site. You were a grade ahead of me so a lot of the things you read I also did. Can’t wait for the 7th grade video!

[@Jordan-dv6tw]

Black beauty was my favorite book from childhood because I was a horse girl 🥺 and I reread a christmas carol and see the play every year around Christmas time so I really want to see you get to those 🥰 I'm pleased that you have read black beauty though OMFG I PLAYED PIPPI LONGSTOCKING IN 2ND GRADE FOR A PLAY

[@BrunetteBibliophile]

I feel like no one knows about The Big Comfy Couch! I watched that all the time when I was a kid!

[@melanieheath9829]

I would get all excited when Lunette would do her "clock stretch" and I'd do it with her in my living room! I remember my dad laughing and my mom trying it with me once 🤣

[@KathleenLightfoot]

I screamed when you started playing the Big Comfy Couch theme song! That show was one of my favorites when I was little and nobody else I know seems to remember its existence. But I had a Molly doll that I used to carry around, and my mom used to convince me to clean my room by calling it a “10 second tidy” 😂

[@katiepatterson7292]

Girl lmfao when you closed your head up in your hoodie😂😂love it.

[@ReadByJess]

I love that you take us on a little tour of the places you visited at those ages, you just put so much effort into your videos and *we appreciate*

[@Caster279]

The Big Comfy Couch song made me so nostalgic.

[@canadianjules]

LALA THE BIG COMFY COUCH THEME it was like my all time favourite show 😭

[@savfromsopn]

I'm so glad you liked The Secret Garden, because it is my all time favorite book. (I've read it at least 18 times from when I was a child until now at 25 & even got to teach it to a literature class of 6th grade girls.) As for the problematic attitudes towards Indian people and servants, I've always seen it as part of what shows that Mary is not a "good person" at the beginning of the story. Also, the reason she was described as "yellow" was because she spent all of her time inside and on the sickly side. But I really, wholeheartedly love the character growth in this book. This book is just...fundamental to who I am as a person now, and I'm trying to remind myself that I do NOT need to own ALL the copies.

[@jessiestrauss5973]

"with really short hair and my dress came unbuttoned." -- I laughed out loud.

[@chandlerainsley]

the pippi intro music has me HYPED kayla

[@ashleydochuk9603]

Hi Kayla. I am the same age as you. I remember the 1973 Charlottes Web movie and don’t think I ever saw the 2006 one. Thanks for the blast from the past!

[@Liz-lr3if]

Ooh, yes, I hope Kayla watches the 1973 version. I love it so much!

[@jmonta21]

I didn’t even know they made a 2006 one! Classic is all I ever saw too. I’m slightly younger than Kayla.

[@alle_cat]

Such a great video! It's fun to go through your childhood memories with you. The nostalgia is strong. The Chronicles of Narnia is such a huge part of my childhood. My Dad read them to me as bedtime stories from when I was 5 to like 10, along with The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings and John Sandford's Prey Series (I was -and still am- into true crime/forensics). It was a great time and special memories.

[@JessicaLynn10]

Omg I loved the big comfy couch! I was obsessed I had the dolls of lunette and molly! Also had the couch! Lots of similar books from my childhood also. Such nostalgia! 🥰

[@TheKasiaLin]

Omg Like in those photos you can see just how much of Kayla's features Liam has got

[@mikaelalafave2532]

It’s 1 am here and I immediately started singing along to the Big Comfy Couch theme. What a timeless icon. Editing to say 1911! My friend wrote her thesis on Edwardian (and a little post) children’s literature: Peter Pan, the secret garden, and lion, witch, and the wardrobe.

[@slightlybookishslytherin]

I absolutely loved seeing you get a bit silly in this video, the part where you were dancing sat at your laptop to those nostalgic tunes. FAVE.

[@elecole71]

LOVED this video!! Loved Pippi, Charlotte, and The Secret Garden so much. But OMG... when you pulled the strings on your hoodie I literally died 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂. Hope you feel better soon.

[@joywarburton5719]

I love this video series so much, and the beginning of this vlog is pure gold :)

[@pastellewitch]

I love all your content, but these are some of my fave! I love the mix of vlog, show and tell and book reading ating! Also that little box with the pavilion was the most intense flash back, I had one just like it for years! Its also fascinating to see what anglophones read as I'm french Canadian. Ive learn about these much later then the age recommended for them!

[@Kennixwennie]

Big comfy couch is the sweetest memory of mine from my mom. She passed away 2 years ago but I can just remember laying on the floor going the clock stretch😭💕

[@hollykelly7400]

It’s 3.05am in Ireland right now but can’t sleep now Kayla has uploaded🤣❤️

[@kerisbookishcorner2864]

Takeaways from this video: 1-I love and miss ALL those songs! 2-I’m WAY more nostalgic for the reads from 3rd grade than other young years lol, is that odd? I want so badly to go back and read these over again too! 3-I need the Pantone Classics. So pretty! And obviously, I love watching any video you do 😊

[@qualifiedarmchaircritic]

woowwwza you really took me down that memory lane! I read the entirety of Narnia when I was 8, I remember spending hours in my school library going through them. Magical!

[@sillyslicker1]

I'm your age and I grew up watching a Charlotte's Web movie, so I was super confused when you said you were too old for it by the time the movie came out. I forgot there was another version. I absolutely ADORED the 1973 movie... please watch it 😄

[@WishAtElevenEleven]

I’m here late but I had the exact same reaction

[@sailortwips]

I just googled Charlotte’s Web because the movie I remember watching was animated, and boy was I hit with ALL of the nostalgia seeing those google images! I think it’s been like 20 years since I last watched it or even thought about it...

[@lifestartingnow]

This was the good mood booster I didn't know I needed. Thank you, Kayla. I was born in 1991 and these are such a lovely throwback. 🥰

[@gabbychiera8816]

My partner from three rooms away: “who the hell is playing a recorder?!”

[@paigepoelvoorde1075]

Oh no not the recorders!! that brings back too many memories hahaha

[@cheeruppirate]

I love these, because being the same age there are so many similarities in books we read. So you remind me of some of my forgotten favorites. Like, Amber Brown forgot but LOVED, I never read Judy Moody though. I used to watch Charlotte's Web all the time but the old 1973 animated version! Ooo, my family and I still quote that movie to this day.

[@behniwal08]

I distinctly remember getting the Lost In Space DVD with a Pizza Hut order back in the day! I'm pretty sure we also got Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles too. I did not realize how many iconic songs came from 1998! Every single one of those songs are 👌

[@annawilson2406]

I love the “love you as a friend” sweat shirt! Also I’m dying over that playlist 😂😍

[@BookaflixTaylor]

This is exactly what I needed today. Thank you! Absolutely love this series you put out 💛 I can barely remember anything so it's awesome to see how much you do from your past.

[@aidacelicaguilar7927]

I think you nailed it. Children think more about the media they engage with than we give them credit for.

[@HerMakeupIsRad]

The big comfy couch 😭💛

[@fesja_reads]

"Hi, I'm an Aries" - SAME! I felt that :D

[@louisacoote2337]

I turned 17 in 1998-99, so am considerably older than you, but I still love watching your videos, as I read a lot of the same books that you did. Loved The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, Black Beauty, Charlotte’s Web...

[@sarahbessie_]

I was born in 1998 and it was so interesting to see what you/kids were reading/watching (/ listening to 😂) at the time! I hope you feel better now, I always love your vlogs! (Charlotte's web, The Secret Garden, Narnia, The parent trap- childhood nostalgia)

[@gomiho91]

Junie B. starts as a kindergartener, in later books she goes to first grade. I'm not sure if she ever grows above first grade, though. You might have read them in later grades, though because while they can be read to kindergarteners the actual words are generally above kindergarten level. And, as a kindergarten teacher, those drawings you did were on point! Super impressed! lol

[@aless.andra9620]

Charlotte's Web was the 1st book I remember crying about as a child! I remember being so sad about Charlotte's death, but so grateful I've got to meet these amazing characters!

[@stephanielemieux5319]

Me too!! It broke my little child heart into a thousand pieces! 😭

[@SpecialKrissy95]

I read all of Judy Moody’s books & had a matching doll & blanket of Luna from the big comfy couch 🤩 thanks for the flashback to my childhood !!

[@ashleyzbz]

I read Charlotte's Web before watching the Dakota Fanning film and despite knowing the ending I still bawled my eyes out when Charlotte died.

[@followthebooks]

What I found really interesting about this video out of all of the childhood videos is I was only 1 years old in 1998, but I read all of these books when I was in 3rd grade and up and it just shows how timeless they are

[@LanaFeyah]

I think that plastic recorder instrument is the only meeting point between our childhoods. Mostly because we grew up in vastly different parts of the world, but ya know. Nonetheless, I appreciate this nostalgia trip!

[@aestheticperversion]

This series is one of my absolute favorites on your channel

[@WhatVictoriaRead]

I’m glad that this was such a comforting week for you, thanks for sharing!

[@rasaslase]

Love this series. And seeing what you, being so far away from where I am, were reading and was interested in at that time is great.

[@ajam924]

I was born in 1998 nostalgia at its finest l remember what tv shoes were from 1998. It’s interesting to hear your take on these things as you were a bit older than me obviously!

[@theaudiobookaficionado]

The photos of you as a kid look so much like Liam!! Aww ☺️

[@hearitcall]

these videos are legit my favourite!

[@snezanaivanisevic9043]

Obviously I watch all of your videos, but when you started singing baby when the lights go out... I started to respect you on a whole other level 😂😁

[@RainyDaysandStormyNights]

Oh my god I completely forgot about that Pippi Longstocking show!! I was obsessed. I never knew it was based off of books though!

[@carolinetaylor3069]

Omg I used to LOVE Junie B. Jones! My mom hated that I read it though, but that didn't stop me haha. This video is so awesome, love your videos Kayla!

[@LovelessDegrees]

Omgosh I had a whole collection of those butterfly clips and I wore them in a similar fashion when I was young xD I loved Junie B. (the first grader series was newer and came after the first series where she's in kindergarten) and read almost all of them when I was a kid. I read Charlotte's Web several times when I was little and still love it. There are 3 Narnia movies :) The Parent Trap was one of my favorite movies!! Also, you have No Body's Perfect by Kimberly Kirberger!! I read that on a plane ride to Europe the summer before 10th grade and it meant so much to me. I discovered I had OCD when I read the story about the girl who also had OCD.

[@NataliiJereczek]

Oh it's so nice! I'm from Poland and we still have a few same books in our elementary school. I remember Secret Garden, Pippi show, and Anne of Green Gables, which I'm reading the whole series of currently :)

[@amyturner5381]

Best childhood favourites so far! Charlotte’s Web, Narnia and Pippi Longstocking were all favourites for me too 😊

[@meimei7903]

honestly your childhood reading vlogs are convincing me that i was far more of a weird kid than i thought because my first picture book was the spider and the fly, one of my first chapter books was the graveyard book, and after that i just developed an obsession with anything horror or victorian era related? my favorite childhood book is literally about typhoid mary? another one i really liked was about this man whose dead children turned into birds or something like i don't?

[@anitaj6071]

Had to stop watching this so I could immediately order that classic collection. Only missing two 😭

[@jazz5856]

Being a British Columbian of almost the same age makes these extra nostalgic I love it.

[@dupreereads6930]

As soon as you said you had to complete a collection that BookOutlet carried I said, "Oh its gotta be the Pantones..." and I was RIGHT lol ugh those are SO PRETTY

[@gkchappy]

okay that narnia bindup is beautiful???? i got one recently, just a basic paperback with aslan on the cover but i NEED that🥺

[@kellyreadingbooks]

I needed this video so much, thank you! All of these were my childhood favorites as well!

[@crisblakeney]

This comment will probs be edited 56 times before the end of the video, just throwing that out there... First of all, I am so relieved and excited that you posted this video tonight!! I needed something good to watch, and I couldn't find a movie, this will work just perfectly! And second, I cannot believe how much you resemble your son in your 1st or 2nd grade photo of you!! I mean, y'all already resemble each other so much, but even more so as a youngster yourself! Love it! Alright, continuing on hahah! You are inspiring me to read all of the books I haven't read since I was a child myself! I'm 25 almost 26, so not much more younger than you, and I read a lot of these books, as well as many others you haven't mentioned at all. While watching this video, I not only located these books on my bookshelves, but I looked each of them up on goodreads and such, with hopes of rereading at some point. This is a very interesting idea, and I am eager to try it! There are so many books I used to read that I haven't touched or even thought about since my childhood. I wonder if I would even still enjoy them? They bring back so many special memories for me. Who knows?

[@summerclark5979]

Grateful for 40 minutes of escaping reality 💕 Thanks Kayla!

[@breathlessinbedvlogs]

this was such a throw back, uh i miss the 90's

[@leylayurtsever8127]

9 mins ago! That might be the earliest I’ve arrived to a video. I was just about to start painting, so thank you so much for the accompaniment!

[@gabbyreads]

I love this video series sooo much it’s so fun to watch. It makes me feel so nostalgic and like I want to read all of my childhood faves. I also remember loving Charlottes Web but I also completely forgot what it’s about haha 😳😳😳

[@aleelee8917]

I think I was reading through Cam Jansen in third grade. Mysteries! I was so jealous of her photographic memory 😂 I'm the same age as you. I agree about being too old for the Dakota Fanning one. I grew up watching the 1973 Charlotte's Web. I recommend that version!

[@Dawnstar1209]

The old animated Charlottes Web is a dvd I’m always searching for. It was so pretty and moving.

[@riella_reads]

I had those same butterfly clips and I loved them 😍

[@bookishlandings4445]

I have never seen anyone mention Pippi before, I'm so excited! My mom gave me all 3 books and they're still on my shelf 😪

[@lilifane]

I'm loving this series! And this video was just very wholesome. It's so interesting what we remember from our childhood. For years I had this memory of the Secret Garden movie that I watched as a kid. I specifically remembered ONE scene from like the end of the movie. When Mary as an adult sits on a bench and then wind blows away some leaves and she finds the key to the secret garden beath the bench. But since I've watched the movie for the first time, I rewatched it whenever it aired on TV and this scene was never there. First I thought that they just cut it out at the end and I was waiting to the the whole movie to air for the longest time. But it never happened. Then I started to doubt my memory which was a very frustrating experience. Last year I was doing some research on the actors from the movie and discovered... THAT THERE ARE ACTUALLY 2 DIFFERENT SECRET GARDEN MOVIES FROM ABOUT THE SAME TIME?! And apparently one of them wasn't as successful and is only available as DVD from the US. So I ordered it and watched it and it had the scene I remembered in it. Just exactly as I remembered it. I was so happy that I finally solve the mystery. :D But I've never read the book and after your video I really want to!

[@abigailauyeung8343]

The Chronicles of marina from Barnes and Nobles Collectible Edition Series is to hard to find now!!! You're so lucky that you have it!

[@carriebrackett6143]

The Secret Garden is one of my all time favorite books and I adore Dicken! He’s precious!!

[@rebecabeza]

I love this series so much