From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:08:39 -0600

I've read all the comments about "Crow Girl" with great interest. I, too, enjoyed the book as I was reading it and found its tone difficult to describe, other than to say it felt like an old?shioned children's book, one that has a great deal of childhood wish fulfillment.
  Monica Edinger has put her finger on it exactly for me by comparing it to the original "Boxcar Children." There's a little bit of "Family Under the Bridge" about it, too, in that they both deal with self-sufficient children trusting strangers in an unkind world, and yet there's never really any sense of pending doom or danger, as we see in contemporary U.S. books about children on their own.
  KTH


 
  Kathleen T. Horning, Director Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
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