From: LAURIE DRAUS <DRAUS>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 15:39:25 -0600

Had trouble as did someone else with this saying I couldn't post and was not a member when I was, so could someone please email me back and let me know if this was recieved? And sorry if by chance it did post the first time, even though I got the message saying it didn't.

A 1999 picture book I just discovered this year, and have really cozied up to, is Jamela's Dress, by Niki Daly, about a little girl in South Africa who lets herself get caught up in the flow of a dreamy fantasy and causes a big problem for her mother. The ending is a little deus ex machina, but it is worked into the story fairly well. My first- and third-grade daughters loved it and the first graders I read it to enjoyed it, too. There are enough similar reference points of culture for kids to be able to relate, and enough differences to generate interest.

Lauri Cahoon-Draus Library Media Specialist Suring School Libraries
Received on Mon 18 Dec 2000 03:39:25 PM CST