From: Maia Cheli-Colando <maia>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:45:50 -0700

Kathleen asked for feedback from children. I'm uncertain how much life-change assessment a seven-year old can offer (!), but my daughter replied to my inquiry with two titles: A Life Like Mine (DK/Unicef) and Acting for Nature, What Young People Around the World Have Done to Protect the Environment by Sneed Collard III. Without prodding, she expounded on the lessons of class structure, how and what people live on, and where, etc. that she gained from A Like Like Mine. (She also used this opportunity to solicit that we find a copy of A Faith Like Mine! <g>)

I asked her if there was a fiction title that she felt had changed her. She has read Island of the Aunts and Journey to the River Sea, Jane Eyre, the first three Oz books, two Anne of Green Gables books, Ballet Shoes and Dancing Shoes, etc., and is reading Little Women currently... but though she loves these books and has read them again and again, no, she answered, it was the two titles above that she felt had altered her understanding of life, not the novels.

So much for girls not being non-fiction readers, I guess. :)

Maia
Received on Wed 24 May 2006 07:45:50 PM CDT