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From: Steward, Celeste <csteward_at_aclibrary.org>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 09:01:46 -0700
Interesting, that book stayed with me for a long time...although i suspect Fly Away Home is a different reading experience for adults than it is for c hildren. Last week i was traveling and Fly Away Home artwork went through m y mind. I wondered if it were even possible for a homeless person to live i n a very large airport terminal. Probably not these days...security is fier ce.
Celeste Steward Alameda County Library
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From: Nel
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 8:31 AM To: Megan Schliesman; ccbc-net, Subscribers of Subject: Re:
CCBC-Net Topics for May
One of the most powerful books I have ever read about our economy's affect on children is now 20 years old. "My dad and I live in an airport . . . the airport is better than the streets," says a child beginning his descriptio n about their homelessness in Eve Bunting's Fly away Home. The narration g oes from calm acceptance to anger while Ronald Himler's deceptively peacefu l watercolors present the father and son trying to blend into the large spa ces of the airport. Although the restrictive security policies set into mot ion within the past decade may make this book less realistic than when it w as first published, it still carries the horror of the situation for adults while showing the close relationship between the two characters for young children. The bird that escapes from the airport also provides a sense of h ope to the boy that he and his father, too, will be able to escape their li fe there.
Nel Ward Newport, OR
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 09:01:46 -0700
Interesting, that book stayed with me for a long time...although i suspect Fly Away Home is a different reading experience for adults than it is for c hildren. Last week i was traveling and Fly Away Home artwork went through m y mind. I wondered if it were even possible for a homeless person to live i n a very large airport terminal. Probably not these days...security is fier ce.
Celeste Steward Alameda County Library
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From: Nel
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 8:31 AM To: Megan Schliesman; ccbc-net, Subscribers of Subject: Re:
CCBC-Net Topics for May
One of the most powerful books I have ever read about our economy's affect on children is now 20 years old. "My dad and I live in an airport . . . the airport is better than the streets," says a child beginning his descriptio n about their homelessness in Eve Bunting's Fly away Home. The narration g oes from calm acceptance to anger while Ronald Himler's deceptively peacefu l watercolors present the father and son trying to blend into the large spa ces of the airport. Although the restrictive security policies set into mot ion within the past decade may make this book less realistic than when it w as first published, it still carries the horror of the situation for adults while showing the close relationship between the two characters for young children. The bird that escapes from the airport also provides a sense of h ope to the boy that he and his father, too, will be able to escape their li fe there.
Nel Ward Newport, OR
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