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From: Jones, Caroline E <cj24_at_txstate.edu>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:33:14 -0500
Oh yes! This one is wonder-probably it was my first boarding school story. I loved Mother Carrie! -- Dr. Caroline E. Jones Department of English 601 University Dr. Texas State University-San Marcos San Marcos, TX 78666 512-245-3785 Flowers Hall M13
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From: Susan Daugherty Reply-To: Susan Daugherty Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 20:27:16 -0500 To: Melissa Henderson , CCBC-Net
Subject: Re:
School stories -- boarding schools
Another good boarding school story is The secret language by Ursula Nordstr om, the well known editor of E.B. White and many other great writers. I'd forgotten that the illustrations were done by Mary Chalmers, one of my all- time favorite illustrators.
Susan Daugherty
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From: Melissa Henderson To: CCBC-Net Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 1:05 PM Subject:
School stories -- boarding schools
As a young reader in a small Midwestern town in which I walked to school, q uite literally over the river and through the woods, I learned about the wi der world through books and books and books. I was then, and still am, fasc inated by the boarding school story. So exotic and different from my experi ence - the idea of sharing a room with someone other than your sister! Eati ng breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a communal setting. Writing letters to m om and dad. And so on...
Some of my favorite boarding school stories are:
The "Ur" story - Madeleine by Bemelmans
The Fog Comes in on Little Pig Feet by Rosemary Wells - a wonderful YA "pro blem" novel of the early 1970s - Rachel, a Brooklynite and talented pianist , is an outsider at a snooty boarding school.
Bloomability by Sharon Creech - Dinnie Doone is pulled out of her somewhat haphazard home life and into an Swiss boarding school run by her aunt and u ncle. Dinnie has a positive experience, meeting students and making friend s from around the world
Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani - Viola, like Rachel, hails from Bro oklyn and is sent to boarding school against her wishes. While challenged b y the experience, she ends up finding her place.
I haven't read The Fog since I was a girl (10? 11?) - I've ILLed it to see what I think today. I still remember a character named Ebie Faber, her fath er was the scion of the Eberhardt Faber pencil fortune. Odd the little thin gs that stick with you...
Melissa
Melissa Henderson
Head of Children's Services
Glencoe Public Library
320 Park Avenue, Glencoe, IL 60022
847.835.5058 mhenderson_at_glencoepubliclibrary.org
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:33:14 -0500
Oh yes! This one is wonder-probably it was my first boarding school story. I loved Mother Carrie! -- Dr. Caroline E. Jones Department of English 601 University Dr. Texas State University-San Marcos San Marcos, TX 78666 512-245-3785 Flowers Hall M13
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From: Susan Daugherty Reply-To: Susan Daugherty Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 20:27:16 -0500 To: Melissa Henderson , CCBC-Net
Subject: Re:
School stories -- boarding schools
Another good boarding school story is The secret language by Ursula Nordstr om, the well known editor of E.B. White and many other great writers. I'd forgotten that the illustrations were done by Mary Chalmers, one of my all- time favorite illustrators.
Susan Daugherty
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From: Melissa Henderson To: CCBC-Net Sent: Wednesday, September 7, 2011 1:05 PM Subject:
School stories -- boarding schools
As a young reader in a small Midwestern town in which I walked to school, q uite literally over the river and through the woods, I learned about the wi der world through books and books and books. I was then, and still am, fasc inated by the boarding school story. So exotic and different from my experi ence - the idea of sharing a room with someone other than your sister! Eati ng breakfast, lunch, and dinner in a communal setting. Writing letters to m om and dad. And so on...
Some of my favorite boarding school stories are:
The "Ur" story - Madeleine by Bemelmans
The Fog Comes in on Little Pig Feet by Rosemary Wells - a wonderful YA "pro blem" novel of the early 1970s - Rachel, a Brooklynite and talented pianist , is an outsider at a snooty boarding school.
Bloomability by Sharon Creech - Dinnie Doone is pulled out of her somewhat haphazard home life and into an Swiss boarding school run by her aunt and u ncle. Dinnie has a positive experience, meeting students and making friend s from around the world
Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani - Viola, like Rachel, hails from Bro oklyn and is sent to boarding school against her wishes. While challenged b y the experience, she ends up finding her place.
I haven't read The Fog since I was a girl (10? 11?) - I've ILLed it to see what I think today. I still remember a character named Ebie Faber, her fath er was the scion of the Eberhardt Faber pencil fortune. Odd the little thin gs that stick with you...
Melissa
Melissa Henderson
Head of Children's Services
Glencoe Public Library
320 Park Avenue, Glencoe, IL 60022
847.835.5058 mhenderson_at_glencoepubliclibrary.org
---Received on Thu 08 Sep 2011 08:33:14 AM CDT
