From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 13:17:00 -600

Thanks, Susan, for your good comments about how expertly Mildred Taylor has maintained a consistent point of view within the Logan Family Saga for David Logan. I agree. If a child reads The Well first (and this will probably happen from now on - for young and new readers - expecially after The Well is published in paperback sometime in 1996 or after), s/he will be introduced to David Logan first as a boy. After that, this young reader will meet David Logan as an adult, and it will be clear that this is the same person. What an accomplishment for a writer who began this sequence of books more than two decades ago and who has written them in a varying chronological order! Keeping this in mind, do you have any thoughts about the characterization of Charlie Simms in The Well? What about Charlie Simms and other members of the Simms family in any of the later books?
     P.S. Someone told me last week that a commendable feature of CCBC-NET is that subscribers are not flooded with messages, that CCBC-NET is "manageable" compared to other listservs. I also heard that the reasonable number of messages each week represents substantial comments. What do you think about this, as well as about The Well? Ginny
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