| Hi - I've got a stumper for you. I read
a series of books about 25 years ago which were set in the 1950's
or 1960's. They were about a girl nicknamed Beanie (I think) and
she lived with her father and a few brothers. The father was a widower
and they lived next door to another 50's type family. The series
takes Beanie through her adolescence and then her teen years and then after.
She eventually marries the boy next door. Wish I could remember the
author's name. Everyone I've asked can't seem to recall this series.
I'd like to relive those idyllic times and re-read some of the books of
my childhood. Good books are like old friends, they need to be revisited
often. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
For some reason I was having a very nostalgic
feeling about reading Beanie Malone books when I was a kid
(I am 53 years old). My daughter, Lacey, researcher that she is,
came up with your email address for me. She says that you have access to
reprints of these books. Is that true?
Growing up in a big chaotic household in Staten
Island, New York in the 1960's, I was amazed to stumble upon the Beany
Malone series. Here was a girl I could identify with. I would scan
the local public library shelves for these books, and I would devour them
when I found them. I never thought there was anyone else with my problems
and dreams until I met Beany! I will never forget how comforting it was
to read those books. I've thought about them from time to time over the
years and I have just ordered two of them using a gift certificate I was
given! I'm glad to know there are others who remember Beany fondly.
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Beany Malone Books.
I read these books as young girl and loved them. I remember that
one of the characters in one of the stories was loosely based on my grandmother.
I believe Mrs. Weber interviewed my grandmother before writing the book.
I don't remember which book in the series it was. I was telling my
grandmother about the books as she is into reading series books.
Lenora Matingly Webber, Beany Malone Books.
The
first chapter book I ever read all the way through was "Meet the Malones."
I loved that book and read all of the series. I was able to escape into
a kinder, gentler world than in my own childhood. I bought the paperback
version a year or so ago and LOVE them! I'll
never stop loving Beany and her family.
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Beany Malone
Series and Katie Rose Belford Series. It is
so wonderful to read about others who loved these books by Lenora Mattingly
Weber. I hope her children know how many readers loved their mother'\''s
ability with characters, dialogue and heartfelt, everyday problems that
her protagonists, Beany, and then Katie Rose, worried over along with the
reader. I wanted to jump in these books and know these girls, too.
I am now 50 and used to take these books out of our public library in Marlboro,
Mass. which had a great selection. I've found a few over the years
and would like to read them all
again. Many young girls these days should read
such a warm family story.
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Happy Birthday,
Dear Beany. This was the first
Beany Malone book I ever "stumbled upon" (as others have put it) and the
beginning of a long friendship. Beany Malone and her family helped
me through an awkward adolescence and even now, I have memories of Johnny,
Mary Fred et al. I would highly recommend these books to girls of
all ages!
lenora mattingly weber, beany malone.
I picked up a copy of "meet the malones" in the free box at a public grade
school, o, lucky day! I read it outloud to my 9 and 11 year old who
were horrified beyond words at the wickedness of Nonna! What joy to find
that there were so many books in the series! I continue to read aloud
to my girls (who also just read them) because it brings up so much discussion.
Over half a year later we began "something borrowed, something blue" and
I was amazed at how angry they got just recalling Nonna's redecorating
of Beanie's roon. My younger daughter makes allusion to Beany's motives
often. It is such a joy to have these books!
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Beanie Malone books.
I am 62 and was sitting thinking about all the girls from childhood and
how we spent those seemingly endless summer days. Cecelia Catherine Malone,
Beanie, was my absolute favorite. I loved "Something Borrowed, Something
BLue" because I was a teenager dreaming of a "wedding" at the time. So
glad I stumbled upon this site and realize that "Beanie" was so important
to a lot of us. |
Hello. I'm looking for a childrens series for
my mother. The information she gave me was the main character was
an army brat named Betsy Malone and
she remembers them from her childhood.
(She was born in the late 30's so I would imagine it was from the
late thirties or forties but possibly earlier. I'm
sorry I don't have more to go on. Thanks
so much
I would like to know which of the Malone books
have been reissued (you mentioned an independent publisher), and in particular
Happy
Birthday Beany and Leave it to Beany. Thanks.
P.S. I am also interested in finding Beany
Malone books--another character from my youth!
Before accidentally stumbling onto this Web site,
I thought I was the only grownup who was still addicted to "girls" books.
I also enjoy mysteries and loved the following description in Laura
Lippman's latest (In A Strange City, p.87, P.3) "Sweetly
rumpled, with light brown curls that looked as if he had just gotten up
from a nap,he brought to mind the bookish heroes Tess had encountered in
her childhood reading. He was Louisa May Alcott's Laurie, Maud Hart
Lovelace's Joe Willard, Lenora Mattingly Weber's Johnny Malone, Jules from
the All-of-a-kind Family books." do you love it?
Thanks for posting the letters on Beany
Malone. Like one of your earlier writers, I am also in early
50s, and to this day, love to re-read my Beany books. I still find
a word , sentence, or phrase, that hadn't really sunk in before..and I
continue to marvel at Lenora's amazing craft, as well as deep understanding
and compassion. I attribute much of the person I am, and my
outlook on life, first to my parents, and then to Lenora Mattingly Weber.
Lenora Mattingly Weber, A New and Different
Summer. I grew up in the late 60's
and early 70's reading theKatie Rose series. My favorite was "A new
and Different Summer'. It wasn't until I found a site devoted to
lovers of this author that I came to find out about Beany Malone and the
reprinting of her series. i have just finished reading them for the
second time. I just love them~! The "comings and goings" in Beany's
life were sometimes so sad but I think truer to life than I would like
to think. I only wish that lenora Mattingly Weber would have continued
with Katie Rose up until the time she hopefully married Miguel! I think
the times changed so drastically from her first Beany book to the start
of Katie Rose. The Stacy books were perhaps my least favorite.
They were so melancholy. I am also lucky to have a short story of
Weber's in an old Ladies Home Journal from the 50's I think. I bought
it for another reason and was pleasantly surprised. If
anyone knows anything about the Beany malone
or Lenora Mattingly Weber
"Board" that I was once a part of (this was how
I found out about the books being reprinted), I would really appreciate
it.'
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Come Back, Wherever
You Are.. Lenora Mattingly Weber
was my Great Grandmother. I love her books! Every time that I read them
I feel like I learn more about my family history. I am so glad that other
people are touched by the works of my Great Grandmother. I was also overjoyed
when we were all able to each have our own set of The Beany Malone and
The Katie Rose series. (Because they were reprinted my sisters and I were
each able to have our own set, before they had been so hard to come by
my mom was the one who had the complete series we were allowed to read.)
The charters are like old friends to me. When I read the books I feel like
I am visiting special friends who are always there and who never change.
Lenora Mattingly Weber, Beanie Malone /
Katie Rose. I'm a Middle School
Librarian and am excited these books have been reprinted. I've never
forgotten Beanie and Katie Rose. When I started as a classroom teacher
in 1973 I found "Come Back, Wherever You Are" on the shelf of that library
and was thrilled. I will be purchasing these titles for next year.
Many thanks..... |
