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From: Connie Rockman <connie.rock>
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 08:31:59 -0400
I was so glad to see Barbara Brooks Wallace's wonderful book, "Hawkins," mentioned by Linda. I have a special memory of that book when it first came out. It was introduced to my third grade son by his teacher reading it aloud. He brought a copy home to read aloud to me because he enjoyed it so much - a first time experience. As a children's librarian, I was constantly bringing books home for my kids, but that was the first time he got the jump on me with a new book, and he was so proud of it. We both laughed out loud at the humor.
And that memory takes me back even further to hours spent with my mother reading aloud from the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books of Betty MacDonald. I can still pick up a copy of Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Magic today and start giggling over the "Thought-you-Saiders Cure" or the
"Never-Want-to-go-to-Schoolers." The settings are dated, of course, with the stay-at-home Moms wearing aprons and talking to each other on phones attached to the wall . . . but it's the wonderful inventiveness and downright steady common sense of the title character in her upside down house that has kept me a fan of the Mrs. PW books all these years.
Connie Rockman
Received on Mon 06 May 2002 07:31:59 AM CDT
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 08:31:59 -0400
I was so glad to see Barbara Brooks Wallace's wonderful book, "Hawkins," mentioned by Linda. I have a special memory of that book when it first came out. It was introduced to my third grade son by his teacher reading it aloud. He brought a copy home to read aloud to me because he enjoyed it so much - a first time experience. As a children's librarian, I was constantly bringing books home for my kids, but that was the first time he got the jump on me with a new book, and he was so proud of it. We both laughed out loud at the humor.
And that memory takes me back even further to hours spent with my mother reading aloud from the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books of Betty MacDonald. I can still pick up a copy of Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Magic today and start giggling over the "Thought-you-Saiders Cure" or the
"Never-Want-to-go-to-Schoolers." The settings are dated, of course, with the stay-at-home Moms wearing aprons and talking to each other on phones attached to the wall . . . but it's the wonderful inventiveness and downright steady common sense of the title character in her upside down house that has kept me a fan of the Mrs. PW books all these years.
Connie Rockman
Received on Mon 06 May 2002 07:31:59 AM CDT
