From: Kenneth Cadow <Kenneth.Cadow>
Date: 19 Jun 2009 03:07:31 -0400

Wherever it is that William Steig's Dominic turns his nose, his story is there. I read Dominic over and over as a kid-- still do as a parent.

Kenneth Oppel's Shade is a mover and shaker in the Silver Wing trilogy, as is his companion, Marina.

Picture Books: Kevin Henkes' Lilly, the kid in A Fly Went By, Andrew (who nobody listens to), and Alexander who had the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day--I wrote several versions of that story with me as the main character when I was seven or eight. Also, the peasant girl in "One Grain of Rice." Ping, Angus, Madeline.

And for memorable characters, (but not names, and I'm away from my books...) the pesky little brother in Old Yeller. Not Otis... what was his name?

I never pass up a chance to mention "The Animal Family" by Randall Jarrell--the Mermaid and the Hunter, both. The mermaid as a "fish out of water" who loves everything about the land because it's "different;" The Hunter who loves the familiarity of the land and finds such contentment in sharing it with someone.



Ken Cadow
Received on Fri 19 Jun 2009 02:07:31 AM CDT