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From: Julie Corsaro <juliecorsaro2>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:59:32 -0400
Girls from 8-10 enjoy Adele Griffin's Witch Twins at Camp Bliss.
Julie Corsaro
>From: "Monica Edinger" <monicaedinger at gmail.com>
>To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
>Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Summer books
>Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:51:59 -0400
>
>Many of my 4th graders come into my classroom in September having just
>spent their very first summer at sleepaway camp. Reunions, planning
>for the next summer, and staying in touch with camp friends keep them
>eagerly talking and writing about this experience all year long.
>
>Oddly though, I can't think of many books for children this age that
>really capture what camp is for them. One older book that still works
>for them today is E. B. White's TRUMPET OF THE SWAN. Another I loved
>as a child, but have no idea if it would appeal today is Erich
>Kastner's LOTTIE AND LISA (on which "The Parent Trap" movies are
>based).
>
>As for more recent books, I'm a bit stymied. There are the wonderful
>Percy Jackson books, but while Riordan does cleverly rework the
>standard summer camp tropes, I'd say that isn't really what attracts
>readers to them. There is the Klises' LETTERS FROM CAMP and the
>really-not-for-them-but-some-of-them-read-them-anyway SISTERHOOD OF
>THE TRAVELING PANTS series. I'm sure there are others, but I can't
>think of them right now at all.
>
>And another aspect of summer for many children is
>visiting-the-relatives. One of my favorites on this is Christopher
>Paul Curtis's THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM-1963. Another is Hilary
>McKay's THE EXILES. Hmm... Granny Sands and Big Grandma together ---
>now there's a picture!
>
>Monica
>
>Monica Edinger
>The Dalton School
>New York NY
>edinger at dalton.org
>monicaedinger at gmail.com
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Received on Mon 10 Jul 2006 08:59:32 AM CDT
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:59:32 -0400
Girls from 8-10 enjoy Adele Griffin's Witch Twins at Camp Bliss.
Julie Corsaro
>From: "Monica Edinger" <monicaedinger at gmail.com>
>To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
>Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Summer books
>Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:51:59 -0400
>
>Many of my 4th graders come into my classroom in September having just
>spent their very first summer at sleepaway camp. Reunions, planning
>for the next summer, and staying in touch with camp friends keep them
>eagerly talking and writing about this experience all year long.
>
>Oddly though, I can't think of many books for children this age that
>really capture what camp is for them. One older book that still works
>for them today is E. B. White's TRUMPET OF THE SWAN. Another I loved
>as a child, but have no idea if it would appeal today is Erich
>Kastner's LOTTIE AND LISA (on which "The Parent Trap" movies are
>based).
>
>As for more recent books, I'm a bit stymied. There are the wonderful
>Percy Jackson books, but while Riordan does cleverly rework the
>standard summer camp tropes, I'd say that isn't really what attracts
>readers to them. There is the Klises' LETTERS FROM CAMP and the
>really-not-for-them-but-some-of-them-read-them-anyway SISTERHOOD OF
>THE TRAVELING PANTS series. I'm sure there are others, but I can't
>think of them right now at all.
>
>And another aspect of summer for many children is
>visiting-the-relatives. One of my favorites on this is Christopher
>Paul Curtis's THE WATSONS GO TO BIRMINGHAM-1963. Another is Hilary
>McKay's THE EXILES. Hmm... Granny Sands and Big Grandma together ---
>now there's a picture!
>
>Monica
>
>Monica Edinger
>The Dalton School
>New York NY
>edinger at dalton.org
>monicaedinger at gmail.com
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