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From: Jones, Caroline E <cj24_at_txstate.edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:42:27 -0500
KT Horning wrote, "As a kid growing up in the 1960s, I got most of my books from the public and school library, and neither one had Nancy Drew or Happ y Hollisters (two of the series I read). But I could find literary series l ike the Katie John books at both libraries."
I too loved Katie John (I owned Honestly, Katie John! in a beat up old pape rback, undoubtedly a hand-me-down from somewhere), but got others at the li brary. I was never big into Nancy Drew, but coined the term "literary seri es" when, as both bookseller and graduate instructor, I needed to different iate between Wilder (or Turner or Montgomery or many many more) and BSC or the like: literary series were those in which the characters grew, develope d, aged, worked toward something. Series series were the ones that someone earlier in this discussion likened to a "favorite sit-com." Great analogy!
My dirty little secret is that as a twenty-something bookseller I undertook to read the entire Sweet Valley High series-I stopped after 105!
Caroline -- Dr. Caroline E. Jones, Editor Alice's Academy The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Literature www.the-looking-glass.net
Department of English Texas State University-San Marcos San Marcos, TX 78666 512-245-3785
Received on Fri 05 Aug 2011 11:42:27 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:42:27 -0500
KT Horning wrote, "As a kid growing up in the 1960s, I got most of my books from the public and school library, and neither one had Nancy Drew or Happ y Hollisters (two of the series I read). But I could find literary series l ike the Katie John books at both libraries."
I too loved Katie John (I owned Honestly, Katie John! in a beat up old pape rback, undoubtedly a hand-me-down from somewhere), but got others at the li brary. I was never big into Nancy Drew, but coined the term "literary seri es" when, as both bookseller and graduate instructor, I needed to different iate between Wilder (or Turner or Montgomery or many many more) and BSC or the like: literary series were those in which the characters grew, develope d, aged, worked toward something. Series series were the ones that someone earlier in this discussion likened to a "favorite sit-com." Great analogy!
My dirty little secret is that as a twenty-something bookseller I undertook to read the entire Sweet Valley High series-I stopped after 105!
Caroline -- Dr. Caroline E. Jones, Editor Alice's Academy The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Literature www.the-looking-glass.net
Department of English Texas State University-San Marcos San Marcos, TX 78666 512-245-3785
Received on Fri 05 Aug 2011 11:42:27 AM CDT
