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Shirley Hughes "Alfie" and "Trotter Street"
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From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:15:24 -0500
Peggy-- what a great assessment of the Shirley Hughes books! I'm going to start using the "Dernard" term myself!
Thanks, too, for calling attention to her series for older children, Trotter Street.
Here she's chosen an interesting way to structure the series ? around the families on a single city block. Collectively the Trotter Street books reinforce of sense of community. And Hughes's choices reflect the interests of her readers' age levels: the younger Alfie books are centered on home and family, while the Trotter Street books reflect the wider world of middle childhood, that now extends to the immediate neighborhood.
Kathleen T. Horning (khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706 608&3930 FAX: 608&2I33
Responding as a parent: My son, now almost 13, still will say of some kid he finds obnoxious, "He's such a Dernard!" (Annie Rose's pronunciation of Bernard's name).
He grew up with Shirley Hughes--starting with the "nursery series" of concept books, then to Alfie and Annie Rose, then Trotter Street.
Received on Tue 25 May 1999 05:15:24 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:15:24 -0500
Peggy-- what a great assessment of the Shirley Hughes books! I'm going to start using the "Dernard" term myself!
Thanks, too, for calling attention to her series for older children, Trotter Street.
Here she's chosen an interesting way to structure the series ? around the families on a single city block. Collectively the Trotter Street books reinforce of sense of community. And Hughes's choices reflect the interests of her readers' age levels: the younger Alfie books are centered on home and family, while the Trotter Street books reflect the wider world of middle childhood, that now extends to the immediate neighborhood.
Kathleen T. Horning (khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706 608&3930 FAX: 608&2I33
Responding as a parent: My son, now almost 13, still will say of some kid he finds obnoxious, "He's such a Dernard!" (Annie Rose's pronunciation of Bernard's name).
He grew up with Shirley Hughes--starting with the "nursery series" of concept books, then to Alfie and Annie Rose, then Trotter Street.
Received on Tue 25 May 1999 05:15:24 PM CDT
