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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 11:44:01 -0500
Nancy Mercado wondered how people responded to Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack when it first came out. I can't speak for how young reader's responded and hope others can, but her question did make me want to go check some of the original reviews, a few of which I've excerpted below:
From Horn Book Magazine ( February 1973):
"Writing about contemporaneity with humor and insight requires unusal talens. In a first book, the author demonstrates such talent and presents a plethora of vivid characters who act and interact in believable, yet comic ways. ... This low-key and funny book is a refreshing contrast to the many didactic and dismal books written for older readers."
From Pamela D. Pollack in School LIbrary Journal (December, 1973):
"...M.E. Kerr's funny/sad first novel shoots straight from the hip....Devastingly funny but stingingly serious about the necessity of direct, outspoken action, the book perfectly prsents a wrty wrold view...the whole is a totally affecting literary experience."
From Dale Carson in The New York Times Book Review (February 11, 1973):
"This is a brilliantly funny book that will make you cry. It is full of wit and wisdom and astonishing immediacy that comes from spare, honest writing. Many writers try to characterize the peculiar poignancy and the terrible hilarity of adolescence. Few succeed as well as M.E. Kerr in this timely, compelling and entertaining novel."
I also found Dinky Hocker listed in an piece by Beth Molski in Emergency Librarian (Sep/Oct92, Vol. 20 Issue 1) titled "Books I Wish I Had Read When They Were Assisnged to Me in School But Haven't Read Until Now."
Who can share what teen readers, both in the early 1970s and today, thought and think about Dinky Hocker?
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Thu 06 Jun 2002 11:44:01 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 11:44:01 -0500
Nancy Mercado wondered how people responded to Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack when it first came out. I can't speak for how young reader's responded and hope others can, but her question did make me want to go check some of the original reviews, a few of which I've excerpted below:
From Horn Book Magazine ( February 1973):
"Writing about contemporaneity with humor and insight requires unusal talens. In a first book, the author demonstrates such talent and presents a plethora of vivid characters who act and interact in believable, yet comic ways. ... This low-key and funny book is a refreshing contrast to the many didactic and dismal books written for older readers."
From Pamela D. Pollack in School LIbrary Journal (December, 1973):
"...M.E. Kerr's funny/sad first novel shoots straight from the hip....Devastingly funny but stingingly serious about the necessity of direct, outspoken action, the book perfectly prsents a wrty wrold view...the whole is a totally affecting literary experience."
From Dale Carson in The New York Times Book Review (February 11, 1973):
"This is a brilliantly funny book that will make you cry. It is full of wit and wisdom and astonishing immediacy that comes from spare, honest writing. Many writers try to characterize the peculiar poignancy and the terrible hilarity of adolescence. Few succeed as well as M.E. Kerr in this timely, compelling and entertaining novel."
I also found Dinky Hocker listed in an piece by Beth Molski in Emergency Librarian (Sep/Oct92, Vol. 20 Issue 1) titled "Books I Wish I Had Read When They Were Assisnged to Me in School But Haven't Read Until Now."
Who can share what teen readers, both in the early 1970s and today, thought and think about Dinky Hocker?
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Thu 06 Jun 2002 11:44:01 AM CDT
