From: Jean Casey <jcasey>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:17:03 -0500

I, too, have been enjoying this discussion and making my own list of "to buys" and
"to reads." I'm very glad people still enjoy Beverly Cleary's looks at childhood. I remember reading them as a child myself, revisiting "Ramona the Pest" years later on a road trip to upper Michigan and missing the scenery as I shared the humor with my husband, who had never met Ramona before, and still enjoying her humor reading
"Ramona's World". (the Fall through the attic/dining room ceiling, cracked me up!)

This week, I've been reading Julius Lester/Jerry Pinkney's wonderful version of "Sam and the Tigers" They're captured in the first two sentences when everyone is named Sam. And as the pattern of the story unfolds, it's fun to watch the "light bulbs" go on as they see the pattern emerging and know the inevitable ending of Sam in his underwear in public(everyone's biggest nightmare!) They are, however, totally gone when we get to the 2 page spread of the tigers arrayed in Sam's clothes, and thorougly satisfied with the conclusion. Add to it Pinkney's amazing illustrations, and it's a most successful class period. What fun we've had!

Just more fodder for the mill.

Jean
Received on Fri 10 May 2002 08:17:03 AM CDT