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From: fairrosa
Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 08:48:14 -0400
One book that deals with death, heartwrenchingly, and yet is filled with hilariously humorous scene is Barbara Park's "Mick Hart Was Here." The narrator (a 12 or 13 year-old girl) is recounting both the tragedy and impact of her brother Mick's accidental death and remembering Mick for the clever clown he was and all the capers he got into during his short life.
I read this outloud to 5th graders and they would beg me to continue every time when our reading time was up. They laughed out loud and then got really quiet and moved at the sad parts. I appreciate Park's skills in keeping all the roller-coaster emotions true to life and not manipulative, which could so easily happen in a lesser hand.
-- fairrosa
Received on Sat 04 May 2002 07:48:14 AM CDT
Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 08:48:14 -0400
One book that deals with death, heartwrenchingly, and yet is filled with hilariously humorous scene is Barbara Park's "Mick Hart Was Here." The narrator (a 12 or 13 year-old girl) is recounting both the tragedy and impact of her brother Mick's accidental death and remembering Mick for the clever clown he was and all the capers he got into during his short life.
I read this outloud to 5th graders and they would beg me to continue every time when our reading time was up. They laughed out loud and then got really quiet and moved at the sad parts. I appreciate Park's skills in keeping all the roller-coaster emotions true to life and not manipulative, which could so easily happen in a lesser hand.
-- fairrosa
Received on Sat 04 May 2002 07:48:14 AM CDT
