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From: Cathy Sullivan Seblonka <cathys>
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:09:11 -0500 (EST)
I've read Shadows of Ghadames and The Crow-Girl and thought both were excellent. Shadows opened up a whole new world for me as I learned about a city in Libya and women living on the rooftops in a separate world away from the men. The book showed women taking risks to help another person and the growth that resulted in both the mother and the daughter (and the young man). (I can't remember their names.) The place was so well described that I could feel the desert dryness and the cool air of the nighttime.
Crow-Girl was one of my favorite books of the year. Such tragic things happen in the story either to the young girl or in the stories she hears from the other characters, yet it's a book of beauty and hopefulness. Various people come together in their deep needs and build family, in fact, build a small settlement. And the atmosphere created by the author is so real, one can feel the sea and the mists. It's a lovely book.
And I have great news. I am co-chair of the Great Lakes' Great Books Award (Michigan Reading Association's children's choice book award) and we put all three of the Batchelder books on the ballot for 2006. Shadows and Crow-Girl for grades 4-5 and Daniel Half-Human for grades 9. (I have not read Daniel yet but my co-worker did and thinks it is also excellent.)
Cathy
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 14:09:11 -0500 (EST)
I've read Shadows of Ghadames and The Crow-Girl and thought both were excellent. Shadows opened up a whole new world for me as I learned about a city in Libya and women living on the rooftops in a separate world away from the men. The book showed women taking risks to help another person and the growth that resulted in both the mother and the daughter (and the young man). (I can't remember their names.) The place was so well described that I could feel the desert dryness and the cool air of the nighttime.
Crow-Girl was one of my favorite books of the year. Such tragic things happen in the story either to the young girl or in the stories she hears from the other characters, yet it's a book of beauty and hopefulness. Various people come together in their deep needs and build family, in fact, build a small settlement. And the atmosphere created by the author is so real, one can feel the sea and the mists. It's a lovely book.
And I have great news. I am co-chair of the Great Lakes' Great Books Award (Michigan Reading Association's children's choice book award) and we put all three of the Batchelder books on the ballot for 2006. Shadows and Crow-Girl for grades 4-5 and Daniel Half-Human for grades 9. (I have not read Daniel yet but my co-worker did and thinks it is also excellent.)
Cathy
-- 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.usReceived on Wed 16 Mar 2005 01:09:11 PM CST
