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From: Repartee1 at aol.com <Repartee1>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:59:27 EDT
Thanks for the literary campfire of sharing here, ccbc-net colleagues! These are the ones that made me laugh, cry, fly. Worlds larger than I. Worlds smaller. Other people/animals' worlds. A Wisconsin farm kid, I was transported.
1. BLACK BEAUTY and then Eric Knight's LASSIE COME HOME gave me electric inner dialogues/monologues.
2. LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE and the rest of the series. Politically incorrect now, then it was the ?winning of the West? I'd heard my folks delight in. It fit with my German ancestors' arrivals in America. Open spaces--no one "owned" anything. Blind view but a foundation, too.
3. The other side--a bookmobile summer find--Nichols' CRAZY WEATHER-- time change --white kid back in history with the Indians. And by this time I knew the Midwest was not just open space and Nature. It was occupied!!!
4. Hans Christian ANDERSON'S FAIRY TALES, esp. "The Snow Queen " which scared and mesmerized me. The bookmobile librarian allowed me to go ?off-section? and my mother presumed all the stories were happy-ending ones. Ooooooh for the dark side out there.
5. The "Landmark" series--now politically incorrect--focused me on more than places and action. I loved the details of the people like Jim Bridger and Buffalo Bill. about the winning of the West. The woman in charge of Green Bay's H.C. Prange book department pointed them out. A librarian at heart and with heart, she never pushed to purchase. She had a reading niche. I wish I had been more articulate then to tell her thanks for expanding my world there.
6. GRAPES OF WRATH--Love and the family are wonderful but there are conditions (greeds and needs and violence) that overwhelm the best of us.
7. Bel Kaufmann's UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE was a godsend as I started teaching English--Sylvia's first year and mine were full of ironies, edicts, and blessed be, the courage and views and insights of kids.
Betty Ihlenfeldt, H.S. English instructor (ret.)
Received on Wed 31 May 2006 01:59:27 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:59:27 EDT
Thanks for the literary campfire of sharing here, ccbc-net colleagues! These are the ones that made me laugh, cry, fly. Worlds larger than I. Worlds smaller. Other people/animals' worlds. A Wisconsin farm kid, I was transported.
1. BLACK BEAUTY and then Eric Knight's LASSIE COME HOME gave me electric inner dialogues/monologues.
2. LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE and the rest of the series. Politically incorrect now, then it was the ?winning of the West? I'd heard my folks delight in. It fit with my German ancestors' arrivals in America. Open spaces--no one "owned" anything. Blind view but a foundation, too.
3. The other side--a bookmobile summer find--Nichols' CRAZY WEATHER-- time change --white kid back in history with the Indians. And by this time I knew the Midwest was not just open space and Nature. It was occupied!!!
4. Hans Christian ANDERSON'S FAIRY TALES, esp. "The Snow Queen " which scared and mesmerized me. The bookmobile librarian allowed me to go ?off-section? and my mother presumed all the stories were happy-ending ones. Ooooooh for the dark side out there.
5. The "Landmark" series--now politically incorrect--focused me on more than places and action. I loved the details of the people like Jim Bridger and Buffalo Bill. about the winning of the West. The woman in charge of Green Bay's H.C. Prange book department pointed them out. A librarian at heart and with heart, she never pushed to purchase. She had a reading niche. I wish I had been more articulate then to tell her thanks for expanding my world there.
6. GRAPES OF WRATH--Love and the family are wonderful but there are conditions (greeds and needs and violence) that overwhelm the best of us.
7. Bel Kaufmann's UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE was a godsend as I started teaching English--Sylvia's first year and mine were full of ironies, edicts, and blessed be, the courage and views and insights of kids.
Betty Ihlenfeldt, H.S. English instructor (ret.)
Received on Wed 31 May 2006 01:59:27 PM CDT
