From: Monica R. Edinger <edinger>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 04:43:42 +0000

I'm always on the lookout for good memoirs and autobiographies for a unit I do on memoirs with fourth graders. I'm particularly interested in those that are not typical: graphic novels, poems, autobiographical fictions, etc. A few of those:

Works of Cartoonist Lynda Barry. I used to have and use many of her cartoon books such as In the Fun House. Very real and bittersweet views of a sixties childhood. Also the novel The Good Times Are Killing Me which is also, I believe, autobiographical. It was made into a very fine play some years ago which I saw in New York.

British illustrator Michael Foreman's two books, Warboy and When the War Was Over. They are full of illustrations similar to Bill Peet's Autobiography.

Lee Bennett Hopkins' Been to Yesterdays is a memoir all in poetry.

Paul Zindel's The Pigman and Me which has some of the outrageous qualities of Oddballs.

Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York edinger at dalton.org
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