Re: jewish characters in Salinger
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:59:01 +1000
Mirijam and Rick (presumably typing with one hand each) wrote:
> Now, Tolkien is not what we would consider children's lit, but having
> read it in 5th grade
Au contraire! I was read the whole series when I was four or five years old
by a literature-loving mother whose patience has been more than fully
rewarded. And I understood the whole thing, it was the series I graduated
onto after Narnia, for which I must have been quite small because I
remember still being in preschool when I went to the bookstore and asked
for `The Silver Chair'. `Oh no, no, dear, you must mean `The Wishing Chair'
by Enid Blyton'! the store lady said. How stupid is she? thought I, and
proceeded to explain the entire plot of the Narnia series to her. I left
with book and dignity in hand and hopefully a bit more respect for the
intelligence of young 'uns from that lady.
Camille
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