Oh my! Seriously, this Sully dude does more than his fair share to alter the balance of good guys to idiots.
Inara: We thought we lost you. Mal: Well, I've been right here.
'Out Of Gas'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Laura - Feb 03, 2009 2:22:49 pm PST #8405 of 28431
Our wings are not tired.
beth b - Feb 06, 2009 9:42:41 am PST #8406 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
ok, so I accidentally signed up for a four week course on the newbery award. ( Really , i was answering a survey that I had no idea was a contract to take a course.) othere than the 12 billion articles per week I also have about 12 books to read:
so anyone have favorites from the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s .
course will be talking about the original purpose , current purpose and general relevance of the newbery.
Laga - Feb 06, 2009 9:48:50 am PST #8407 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH edit- oh wait, that's 60s.
flea - Feb 06, 2009 9:58:04 am PST #8408 of 28431
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I ADORED Rabbit Hill (1945) and the Twenty-One Balloons (1948) as a child, and while I haven't reread them as an adult I think they would hold up. I think there would be some very interesting things to say about Hitty, Her First Hundred Years (1930) and The Voyages of Doctor Doolittle (1923), both of which I read and enjoyed as a child but have seem some more recent discussion of their appropriateness for today's kids due to racism. Most of the rest I either haven't read or read and don't remember.
megan walker - Feb 06, 2009 9:59:05 am PST #8409 of 28431
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Among medal winners, I've only read The Witch of Blackbird Pond and The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle. Both great.
Among honor books, I'd recommend Mr. Popper's Penguins (which I still have) and, obviously, the Little House books.
lisah - Feb 06, 2009 10:10:56 am PST #8410 of 28431
Punishingly Intricate
I'd recommend Mr. Popper's Penguins (which I still have)
We did a performance of this at my library when I was in like 3rd grade! I loved that library and the totally indulgent librarian. My best friends and I spent hours and hours of (unsupervised except by the librarian) time there, in the summer especially.
beth b - Feb 06, 2009 10:11:37 am PST #8411 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
My coworker suggested I do a book to movie thing with Dr. Dolittle -- and I said may be if my book club was high school aged. But I have 4th thru 6th graders
flea - Feb 06, 2009 10:18:42 am PST #8412 of 28431
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Dr. Dolittle the book is definitely pitched at 4-6th graders, maybe even younger. I don't know about the movie.
Kathy A - Feb 06, 2009 10:23:38 am PST #8413 of 28431
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
obviously, the Little House books
megan beat me to it!
Also, Johnny Tremain, Strawberry Girl, any of the Marguerite Henry horse books (especially Misty of Chincoteague), Charlotte's Web, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond are all favorites from my childhood.
JZ - Feb 06, 2009 12:13:06 pm PST #8414 of 28431
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I re-read The Twenty-One Balloons about a year ago, and it holds up beautifully, and enchantingly.
Actually, now I may have to go home and re-read it yet again this very night.