From: Cathy Sullivan Seblonka <cathys>
Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 13:20:38 -0400 (EDT)

I'm glad Monica mentioned Gary Paulsen. His My Life in Dog Years brought tears to my eyes from laughing so hard. I don't know whether one has to be a dog lover or not to laugh that much over the book.

I also relish the humor in Pinkwater, Horvath, Peck's A Year Down Yonder
(especially the episode on Halloween (there's an outhouse in there)), Philip Pullman's Count Karlstein, Dahl's The Witches, Morris' Parsifal's Page, Cronin's Click Clack Moo Cows That Type, the Minnie and Moo books
(while we're on the subject of cows), Seidler's Mean Margaret, the first chapter in Curtis' The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963, Doyle's Uncle Ronald, Dickinson's Chuck and Danielle, Ferris' Love Among the Walnuts, Pratchette's The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, and Vande Velde's Never Trust a Dead Man. Looks like the humor in these books is the humor found in our everyday lives (fantastic or otherwise), it's entwined with sadness, pain, and growing up, with seeking love, self and justice.




Cathy Sullivan Seblonka Youth Services Librarian Peter White Public Library 217 N. Front St. Marquette, MI 49855
(906) 228?10 fax (906) 22683 e-mail: cathys at uproc.lib.mi.us
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