From: Linda Salem <lsalem>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 09:47:26 -0700

Ellen Miller Donaldson's Moons of Long Ago: Old Indian Tales published in 1922. As a little girl, I read my mom's copy of this book that she read when she was a little girl and still have it. These pourquoi stories revealed to me that tiny flowers, birds, and other little animals are living out their own stories. Great bedtime stories. It is out of print.

Big Max by Kin Platt. I memorized it and still quote it. So funny and bizarre. This changed me because it made me very silly. So did The Tenth Life of Osiris Oaks by Wally Cox and Everett Greenbaum. Illustrated by F.A. Fitzgerald.

No Fighting, No Biting by Else Holmelund Minarik and illustrated by Maurice Sendak was read to us when my brothers and sisters and I would not stop fighting. The word biting in the title and the alligator characters got my attention. But it changed me because it was a framework story and this really got me interested in fiction to know you could put stories within stories.
  Linda Salem Associate Librarian San Diego State University
Received on Thu 25 May 2006 11:47:26 AM CDT