We read Witch of Blackbird Pond in school in sixth grade.
Can I mop your brow? I am at the ready with the fearsome brow-mop.
Wash ,'Objects In Space'
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."
Hil R. - Feb 06, 2009 1:18:25 pm PST #8418 of 28431
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Amy - Feb 06, 2009 4:13:06 pm PST #8419 of 28431
Because books.
I STILL love The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Also Caddie Woodlawn and Roller Skates and Strawberry Girl.
Wow, now I wish I had all of my childhood books right here to page through.
Hil R. - Feb 06, 2009 4:23:33 pm PST #8420 of 28431
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
They're making a movie of Beezus and Ramona. [link] The girl playing Ramona is 9. Isn't she supposed to be about 5 in that book?
sj - Feb 06, 2009 8:00:16 pm PST #8421 of 28431
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
She's five in at least one of the books. I think I read every Beverly Cleary as a child.
Fay - Feb 06, 2009 10:31:47 pm PST #8422 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I'm reading Ramona the Pest with one of my kids right now, and Ramona's just starting Kindergarten. fwiw.
Hil R. - Feb 07, 2009 5:29:56 am PST #8423 of 28431
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
OK, and Beezus and Ramona comes before Ramona the Pest. So yeah, totally wrong age. They also case Selena Gomez as Beezus, and she's about 15 or so, I think -- Beezus in that book should be maybe 12?
Jessica - Feb 07, 2009 6:42:47 am PST #8424 of 28431
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
With the youngest Fanning now in grade school, I suspect they just couldn't find a 5 year-old mature enough to carry a feature film.
Barb - Feb 07, 2009 7:02:51 am PST #8425 of 28431
“Not dead yet!”
Yep. Witch of Blackbird Pond and Roller Skates.
Darn-- Velvet Room wasn't a Newbery. Plus, published in 1964, so it's not within your time parameters.
You can't go sixties, beth? Because Wrinkle in Time is still so relevant yet very much of its time.
Hil R. - Feb 07, 2009 7:35:30 am PST #8426 of 28431
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I would think that, if they wanted to cast those girls, they could just make the movie of Ramona Quimby, Age 8, which is just as well-known a book as Beezus and Ramona, and has a bunch of scenes that would make good movie. That's the one with the egg in the hair and the cat song, right?
ION: Harry Potter, Zionist propaganda. Including "promoting the purity of blood and race." Missing the point much? [link]
beth b - Feb 07, 2009 9:14:54 am PST #8427 of 28431
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
You can't go sixties, beth? Because Wrinkle in Time is still so relevant yet very much of its time.
I will be , but I have to read a book from each decade with a couple of matching honor books -- this week the 20s and lot of back ground stuff. Next week 30s, 40s, 50s.