tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post4635955967850676736..comments2024-03-10T16:42:34.106-04:00Comments on Collecting Children's Books: August 7 Brunch Featuring Lucy, Zuccchini, and Birth Day GiftsPeter D. Sierutahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09301507180150710089noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-74990688335679832452011-08-16T14:38:00.234-04:002011-08-16T14:38:00.234-04:00I love your blogs! They are so insightful and funn...I love your blogs! They are so insightful and funny and wonderfully "outside the box". Mahalo! <br />J. Lee GrahamJ. Lee Grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00571846910167751093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-86835024568043334902011-08-14T09:15:29.558-04:002011-08-14T09:15:29.558-04:00Speaking of the dominance of New York authors and ...Speaking of the dominance of New York authors and illustrators, when I was at the SCBWI conference in L.A. last week, 2-3 major authors pointed out that they were from Syracuse, New York, and that so were other well-known authors. So maybe there's a nexus point, a ley line, SOMETHING like that there in... [cue eerie music] Syracuse! (One of the authors was Laurie Halse Anderson; can't recall the others.)KateCoombshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584944601221466789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-57671073361213667552011-08-11T23:19:30.262-04:002011-08-11T23:19:30.262-04:00I have been eagerly awaiting A Monster Calls since...I have been eagerly awaiting A Monster Calls since reading about it on an Australian blog. The illustrations are amazing. The yew-tree monster reminds me of Green Knowe.<br /><br />I still have my Whitman copy of Treasure Island. It's funny how in retrospect, the Whitman books were dime-store cheap. As a kid, I thought my copy of Treasure Island was so grown-up because it was a hardcover, and most of my books were paperbacks.Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-17882412278598085902011-08-11T12:01:11.280-04:002011-08-11T12:01:11.280-04:00Along with their mass-market books (most notably T...Along with their mass-market books (most notably The Boxcar Children series) and occasional literary trade novels, Whitman has long published the best bibliotherapuetic picture books in the business (favorite title: <i>There's a Little Bit of Me in Jamey</i>, about organ donation). They are books with narrow purposes but do a very good job at what they are.<br /><br />Grand Marais is one of the prettiest places I've ever been, way north of Duluth on the coast of Lake Superior. Waterfalls from the Boundary Waters to Superior are everywhere and one night when I was there I saw the northern lights!Roger Suttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00030627312439744621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-6272123851368882972011-08-09T15:48:19.668-04:002011-08-09T15:48:19.668-04:00Too late for this year, but next year you can try ...Too late for this year, but next year you can try spreading pollen with a soft paintbrush. Just brush it around the flowers' stamens and go from flower to flower like a bee would. With any luck, you'll later be sneaking onto people's porches with crammed paper bags.linnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-35111106075774809172011-08-08T09:31:52.204-04:002011-08-08T09:31:52.204-04:00I had Lucy and the Madcap Mystery and one featurin...I had Lucy and the Madcap Mystery and one featuring Janet Lennon (she was working as a camp counselor). I also had most of the Tucker books. I wanted so much to be in that family.Bybeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10061186489010154661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-92208321882255831152011-08-07T20:12:50.436-04:002011-08-07T20:12:50.436-04:00Hi Linda,
Yes, I probably shouldn't have disp...Hi Linda,<br /><br />Yes, I probably shouldn't have disparaged them so much today. If those inexpensive Whitman books weren't available a lot of kids wouldn't have had any books of their own. And I wasn't immune to them either. I use to love "The Tuckers" series published by Whitman.<br /><br />Thanks for reading my blog,<br /><br />PeterPeter D. Sierutahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09301507180150710089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-75765428204692056842011-08-07T19:34:24.386-04:002011-08-07T19:34:24.386-04:00I didn't know Whitman was even still in busine...I didn't know Whitman was even still in business! Yes, they were cheap books, but that enabled a kid like me, with only one parent working, and in a factory, to have her own books to read. I had a bunch of the TV tie-ins (<i>Lassie</i> especially), but also many of the classics (<i>Black Beauty, Call of the Wild, Heidi,</i> etc.) and the series books, a book of adventure short stories, and probably still one of my favorite books, a collection of stories about real-life dogs and horses called <i>More Than Courage</i>.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00684124498981972463noreply@blogger.com