tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post2193738562990618586..comments2024-03-10T16:42:34.106-04:00Comments on Collecting Children's Books: A Soapy Sunday BrunchPeter D. Sierutahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09301507180150710089noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-86264339311030608132010-02-10T18:40:36.711-05:002010-02-10T18:40:36.711-05:00I didn't find an Ellen Pyle original drawing, ...I didn't find an Ellen Pyle original drawing, but I did find an original Dell McCormick of Paul Bunyan and Babe! It seems that he was signing books at Greenlake when my aunt was a child and he drew her (very quickly) a poster sized Paul and Babe-and signed it. Very cool! Probably not worth anywhere near 25 grand though..Ta Da Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08492287179079501511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-45306454325320704242009-09-22T18:10:43.096-04:002009-09-22T18:10:43.096-04:00We have a mispronunciation story about the Happy H...We have a mispronunciation story about the Happy Hollisters, too. My brother read one in which there was a flash flood, and went around talking about "flash fleweds." <br /><br />Helen Schinskehschinskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316478950862562594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-46856604568849365402009-09-22T09:47:26.424-04:002009-09-22T09:47:26.424-04:00I got hooked on the Happy Hollisters (wow, that se...I got hooked on the Happy Hollisters (wow, that series name sounds so silly now) when I first read The Happy Hollisters and the Antique Mystery. I was so young I did not know how to pronounce antique which made my parents stifle giggles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-84925335219951515152009-09-21T11:43:45.922-04:002009-09-21T11:43:45.922-04:00Starring Peter and Leigh by Susan Beth Pfeffer is ...Starring Peter and Leigh by Susan Beth Pfeffer is one of my favorites of her books - while not a soap opera, the heroine starred in a Brady Bunch-like sitcom before her mother remarries. Then she tries going to high school like a normal teen and becomes very attached to her stepbrother.<br /><br />My Darling Villain by Lynne Reid Banks is about a British family in which the father just got killed off from a successful soap opera (the book is more about the class conflict between the heroine and her boyfriend). I love this book!<br /><br />I own most of those you mentioned, and could probably provide several adult titles if I tried.CLMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03595294217111602231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-75659310729193038032009-09-21T10:40:15.374-04:002009-09-21T10:40:15.374-04:00I really liked the book Taffy Sinclair: Queen of t...I really liked the book Taffy Sinclair: Queen of the Soaps by Betsy Haynes when I was a kid... Taffy gets a bit part in a soap opera, main character Jana becomes obsessed with soap operas, as usual everyone but Taffy learns a valuable lesson.Wendyhttp://sixboxesofbooks.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-59272226054504619322009-09-21T10:13:11.703-04:002009-09-21T10:13:11.703-04:00"unrelated news". hmmm. You are too fun..."unrelated news". hmmm. You are too funny.<br />aka Chris in NYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-49742355971288365702009-09-21T02:54:34.855-04:002009-09-21T02:54:34.855-04:00Oh, man...I voted for you. Just wait till next yea...Oh, man...I voted for you. Just wait till next year!<br /><br />The Tale of Despereaux annoyed me because of the intrusive narrator telling the kids to stop and get their dictionaries. The subplot with the girl who had a pig-like name was disturbing and annoying all at once. I was put off of reading any more of the author's books.Bybeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10061186489010154661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-28936873899179043732009-09-21T00:24:41.164-04:002009-09-21T00:24:41.164-04:00I thought I was the only one who was less than enc...I thought I was the only one who was less than enchanted with Kate DiCamillo's post-<i>Winn Dixie</i> works (although I don't claim to have read them all). <br /><br />I particularly found <i>Despereaux</i> thin and forced, but thought, Hey, I'm not a kid anymore, so it's not written for me.Daughter Number Threehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08171356533232458827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-43730879630821768332009-09-20T22:05:39.185-04:002009-09-20T22:05:39.185-04:00Here's a new book for you to read, it is the f...Here's a new book for you to read, it is the first of a new author - Ashley Howland<br /><br />Ghostnapped<br /><br />http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/Ghostnapped.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-69466994407443978812009-09-20T17:35:43.150-04:002009-09-20T17:35:43.150-04:001940: PAUL BUNYAN SWINGS HIS AXE by Dell J. McCorm...1940: PAUL BUNYAN SWINGS HIS AXE by Dell J. McCormick<br />reminded me of a passage in Beverly Cleary's memoir, My Own Two Feet. As a young librarian in Yakima, 1940, she traveled to Mount Hood to attend a library conference where the Young Reader's Choice Award is presented. Cleary wrote, "To me the highlight of the conference was seeing Dell McCormick accept the Young Readers' Choice Award for his book Tall Timber Tales, which I had used with success with my little troop of nonreaders. I was awed to hear a real author speak and would have been even more awed if I had known that someday I would win the same award and win it more than once." (Chapter 13, "A Job and a Wedding")<br /><br />Until I read your post today I did not know that Cleary named the wrong book as the winner. Tall Timber Tales, published in 1939, was a sequel to Paul Bunyan Swings his Axe (1936).<br /><br />Interestingly, the Young Reader's Choice Award Selection Policy was revised in 2008 to include the stipulation that "Nominations of books that are a sequel in a series will not be considered."LaurieA-Bhttp://sixboxesofbooks.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com