From: K.T. Horning <khorning>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 15:31:50 -0500 (CDT)

At 02:03 PM 10/22/97 00, Karen Simonetti wrote:

Seek" had something special on its own. Okay, here's a ridiculous question
(only because I cannot exactly detail why I liked "Hide and Seek" so much), but what turned you or others off about "Hide and Seek"?
***I don't think it's a ridiculous question! Luckily I remember very clearly that it was the diction that bothered me -- the way the child's voice sounded in the book, sort of breathlessly innocent. It seemed very old?shioned to me for that reason. I wasn't sure if it was in the original or a problem with the translation. Vos (or her translator) used the same voice in "Dancing on the Bridge to Avignon" and, in our CCBC book discussion of that book a couple of years ago, as I recall I was the only one troubled by the voice, so it's probably a matter of personal taste. Most child readers do not seem to be troubled by it; in fact, that may be part of the appeal for them.

K.T. Horning CCBC School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison
Received on Wed 22 Oct 1997 03:31:50 PM CDT