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From: Bobbie Malone <bobbie.malone_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:50:52 -0500
Looking for a Home
Perhaps the displacements of the Great Depression, World War II, and the early 1950s affected the theme of varying contexts of “home” in several of the children’s authors of that extended time period. Doris Gates’s Blue Willow, Eleanor Estes’s The Moffats series, and a number of Lois Lenski’s titles: Cotton in My Sack, Blue Ridge Billy, Judy’s Journey, Mama Hattie’s Girl, San Francisco Boy, Houseboat Girl. All feature young protagonists who have to come to terms with economically driven decision-making of the adults in their worlds as they try to form their own sense of self and place and belonging.
Bobbie Malone
Madison, WI
Received on Tue 16 Jul 2013 02:50:52 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 14:50:52 -0500
Looking for a Home
Perhaps the displacements of the Great Depression, World War II, and the early 1950s affected the theme of varying contexts of “home” in several of the children’s authors of that extended time period. Doris Gates’s Blue Willow, Eleanor Estes’s The Moffats series, and a number of Lois Lenski’s titles: Cotton in My Sack, Blue Ridge Billy, Judy’s Journey, Mama Hattie’s Girl, San Francisco Boy, Houseboat Girl. All feature young protagonists who have to come to terms with economically driven decision-making of the adults in their worlds as they try to form their own sense of self and place and belonging.
Bobbie Malone
Madison, WI
Received on Tue 16 Jul 2013 02:50:52 PM CDT
