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From: Betty Tisel <tiselfar>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 07:37:08 -0500
One of the things that is so wonderful about this discussion is the images brought to mind of the covers of the books mentioned. Thank you for resurrecting MARY JANE for me.
I never read Mary Jane but my sister did and I can very clearly remember the cover. See a photo of Dorothy Sterling herself on the cover of her autobiography at http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/webtest/sqerl/images/docs/A-book.jpg Googling her I see that she wrote a LOT of other very interesting looking books, biographies mostly.
It is wonderfully obvious we bookcentric listmembers were changed by books.
(aren't we lucky??)
It would be interesting also to pose this question to the person on the street. I suppose the glib answer would be "the bible" but given a little time I reckon folks would come up with some very interesting responses.
Betty Tisel Reader, book advocate, school library volunteer minneapolis
On 5/26/06 6:26 AM, "Bklst at aol.com" <Bklst at aol.com> wrote:
> What a fabulous topic! One very early picture book that fed my continuing
> desire to save things and create new uses for found objects was A BIG BALL OF
> STRING by Marion Holland. I ran across a copy a few years ago and experienced
> a
> wonderful, visceral reaction to some of the illustrations. What a gem!
>
> In sixth grade, I read a little Scholastic paperback (loved those!) titled
> MARY JANE by Dorothy Sterling. This was in Richmond, Virginia in 1965-66. We
> had
> ONE African American boy in our grade. He was quiet and kept to himself.?
> Reading MARY JANE gave me a connection and perceived insight into not only my
> classmate's lonliness and strength, but the strength and determination of an
> entire race. From there, I read every novel I could get my hands on about
> black
> Americans. Remember A PATCH OF BLUE? And Irving Wallace's THE MAN?
>
> Like so many others, I found A WRINKLE IN TIME, HARRIET THE SPY, THE SECRET
> LANGUAGE, THE SECRET GARDEN (I see a theme) to be life-shaping books.
> Lisa Thalhimer
>
>
>
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Received on Fri 26 May 2006 07:37:08 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 07:37:08 -0500
One of the things that is so wonderful about this discussion is the images brought to mind of the covers of the books mentioned. Thank you for resurrecting MARY JANE for me.
I never read Mary Jane but my sister did and I can very clearly remember the cover. See a photo of Dorothy Sterling herself on the cover of her autobiography at http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/webtest/sqerl/images/docs/A-book.jpg Googling her I see that she wrote a LOT of other very interesting looking books, biographies mostly.
It is wonderfully obvious we bookcentric listmembers were changed by books.
(aren't we lucky??)
It would be interesting also to pose this question to the person on the street. I suppose the glib answer would be "the bible" but given a little time I reckon folks would come up with some very interesting responses.
Betty Tisel Reader, book advocate, school library volunteer minneapolis
On 5/26/06 6:26 AM, "Bklst at aol.com" <Bklst at aol.com> wrote:
> What a fabulous topic! One very early picture book that fed my continuing
> desire to save things and create new uses for found objects was A BIG BALL OF
> STRING by Marion Holland. I ran across a copy a few years ago and experienced
> a
> wonderful, visceral reaction to some of the illustrations. What a gem!
>
> In sixth grade, I read a little Scholastic paperback (loved those!) titled
> MARY JANE by Dorothy Sterling. This was in Richmond, Virginia in 1965-66. We
> had
> ONE African American boy in our grade. He was quiet and kept to himself.?
> Reading MARY JANE gave me a connection and perceived insight into not only my
> classmate's lonliness and strength, but the strength and determination of an
> entire race. From there, I read every novel I could get my hands on about
> black
> Americans. Remember A PATCH OF BLUE? And Irving Wallace's THE MAN?
>
> Like so many others, I found A WRINKLE IN TIME, HARRIET THE SPY, THE SECRET
> LANGUAGE, THE SECRET GARDEN (I see a theme) to be life-shaping books.
> Lisa Thalhimer
>
>
>
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