From: Dr. Ruth Gordon <druthgo>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 12:56:40 -0800

CCBCers: For a little (or even more than that) fun in your life, I suggest Steve Sanfields's "The Great Turtle Drive" (Knopf): chortle, giggle, belly laugh Other "faves": (I wish I had the dates but they are either '95 or '96
(sorry--time means so little when I'm having 'fun'.) Gray, L. "Falcon's Egg" Freeman, "Cuckoo's Child" Coman, "What Jamies Saw" (yes--it's '95 but if you haven't read it, it deserves to be read because of its extraordinary p.o.v., and precise writing. Moore,M. "Under the Mermaid Angel" Cushman, "Ballad of Lucy Whipple"-?lifornia Gold Rush from a female view and with all the dirt of the mining camps. Kongsburg, "View from Saturday" Henkes--our Lily and her purple moods and delights, of course. For an interesting book, historical fiction, try John Neufeld's (sp?) new one about congenital deafness on Nantucket(?) based on a small historical moment. The info. about sign language, sign education, combined with an adventure seems a sure fire read-aloud.

Any errors in this are mine and mine alone.

Big Grandma (who also recommends the older titles by Hillary McKay about Big Grandma, a major marvel, and her four delightfully eccentric grand daughters: "The Aliens" and "The Aliens at Home"--but I think the titles are wrong.

================="You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty."--Jessica Mitford (191796
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