Re: jewish characters in Salinger
Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:26:30 -0400 (EDT)
EARTHSEA..... EARTHSEA..... EARTHSEA.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
....and PETER BEAGLE (The Last Unicorn, which is also, by the way, a
WONDERFUL animated feature film--with some truly astonishing actors
providing voices!)
....but speaking of books that were NOT around when I was little (which was,
by the way, historically somewhere between Shakespeare's first and second
quartos....) I'm SO HAPPY that there are STILL fabulous children's books
being written. If I'd never had a daughter, I would never have dreamed
about cracking the cover for WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.....
Hey Thor! Why don't you put your books up for auction in the bananafishbowl?
>Yeah, and, as I'm thinning my book collection this month, I'm running into
>chilhood favorites that do stand the test of time, for example, who
>remembers A Wrinkle In Time? Still cool after all these years. That's
>going on my daughter's bookshelf rather than to goodwill.
>Oh, and, reading to my daughter stuff that I loved as a kid, how did I ever
>get through Beatrix Potter's incredibly wide vocabulary as a child?
>Definitely not everyday language for kids, but great stuff.
>Thor
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>>>From: Camille Scaysbrook <verona_beach@geocities.com>
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>>>Actually I did start reading `Cowgirls' and I'm thoroughly enjoying it
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>>Never said it wasn't good (it is). But speaking of great books:
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>>I just bought "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", A Puffin Book edition in
>>paperback from the early 60's, with a cover illustration slightly out of
>>focus to give the illusion of 3D- just beautiful! At a bookstand for $1, I
>>might add! I've never read C.S. Lewis in English, and even though I planned
>>to give it to a girl I'm dating (she is really fond of the Narnia-books),
>>I'm almost tempted to read it myself first. Actually I have already
>>started.
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>>How many parents are reading aloud from their old Pooh-, Narnia-, etc-books
>>and wonder how they could ever put them away?
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>>Full of cute-ness and politically incorrect statements and beauty! What
>>would we have done without the English college fellows living their life in
>>their own heads?
>>
>>/The Aslan Man
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