From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:12:00 -600

Thanks, Carla, for writing about using Stringbean's Trip to the Shining Sea with 5th graders. Did anyone of them respond to the last page, the one with a painting of Planet Earth? If yes, how?
     Anyone else want to comment on anything about Stringbean...? On children's responses to the stamps designed by Williams and her daughter for each postcard?
     Do some children notice how Stringbean no longer prints his messages after he finds out about the family's Latino heritage? If so, how do they respond to this dimension of his inner growth?
     Do they talk about the more obvious and inevitable tension between Stringbean and his older brother during the camping trip?
     Can anyone comment on Williams' narrative structure: postcard greetings to develop plot and characterization... Is she successful?
                                            ... Ginny
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