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From: mroberts <mroberts>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:14:08 -0500
I also very much enjoyed this approach in "Life Is Funny" and I have appreciated the larger look at a community present in separate books that Cynthia Voigt has written. With "Homecoming" and "Dicey's Song" as the center of her story, we are also able to read separate books about some of the characters Dicey interacts with in "Come a Stranger" and "A Solitary Blue." I like how this offers the reader multiple perspectives on the same community. I am also reminded of two favorites from my childhood that presented two viewpoints on neighborhood interaction "A Dog on Barkham Street" and "The Bully of Barkham Street" both by Mary Stoltz.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------From: "Steven Engelfried" Reply-To: "Steven Engelfried" Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:05:17 00
, but you don't see all the connections until the end. The powerful individual stories ended up meaning more when we learn about the lives of others in the community. >From the outside, you wouldn't even think of it as a unified community, but the way c haracters affect each other, knowingly or not, means a lot. In "Seedfolks" you can see the results of the community building in the garden, but here you only see the results by knowing the inner lives of the characters. "An Island Like You" by Judith Or tiz Cofer, "What's in a Name" by Ellen Wittlinger, and "Bat 6" by Virginia Euwer Wolff are a couple of others that do this really well.
Received on Thu 09 Oct 2003 10:14:08 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:14:08 -0500
I also very much enjoyed this approach in "Life Is Funny" and I have appreciated the larger look at a community present in separate books that Cynthia Voigt has written. With "Homecoming" and "Dicey's Song" as the center of her story, we are also able to read separate books about some of the characters Dicey interacts with in "Come a Stranger" and "A Solitary Blue." I like how this offers the reader multiple perspectives on the same community. I am also reminded of two favorites from my childhood that presented two viewpoints on neighborhood interaction "A Dog on Barkham Street" and "The Bully of Barkham Street" both by Mary Stoltz.
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------From: "Steven Engelfried" Reply-To: "Steven Engelfried" Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:05:17 00
, but you don't see all the connections until the end. The powerful individual stories ended up meaning more when we learn about the lives of others in the community. >From the outside, you wouldn't even think of it as a unified community, but the way c haracters affect each other, knowingly or not, means a lot. In "Seedfolks" you can see the results of the community building in the garden, but here you only see the results by knowing the inner lives of the characters. "An Island Like You" by Judith Or tiz Cofer, "What's in a Name" by Ellen Wittlinger, and "Bat 6" by Virginia Euwer Wolff are a couple of others that do this really well.
Received on Thu 09 Oct 2003 10:14:08 AM CDT
