[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Was: Golden Compass and is, Eowyn, Narnia, etc.

[danielle dassero]

I love Little House books too, still have all of them. (In fact I have all the books from when I was a kid, my babysitter books, sweet valley twins and high and many more). Bugs the crap outa me that they are placed in the fiction section when they are an autobiography. Reading my side of the mountain, I never ever thought the parents were neglectful either. It made me want to live in a tree and eat acorn pancakes too lol. I also loved Beverly Clearly as well, and I read her biography and after what she went thru as child, I find it amazing that she was able to write such good books about children and the wonders of childhoos. I also liked the Fudge books, can't remember the author, but Fudge was the bratty little brother, I remember one was called Superfudge. 

Danielle





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> Marion111:

Oh, oh, oh, I LOVED that book in the fourth grade! So much!! And I hated the outdoors 
and camping and everything about it, but I loved that book. Kids still love it. It's the detail 
I think. I really felt like I could survive in the wilderness just by reading that book. I loved 
the Little House books for the same reason. To this day, even though I know better, i just 
"know" I could slaughter a hog, make cheese, build a cabin, hinge a door with leather, trap 
fish and make a chimney because - Hey, I read it in Little House. Juie of the Wolves - also 
by Jean Craighead George - has the same kind of survival detail.

I don't think as adults we should take the "abandoned child" concept too seriously. It 
certainly never occured to me as a kid that the parents were neglectful, but instead I 
thought only of the boy and how smart and independent he was. And couldn't I be the 
same? 

Another favorite childhood author, Beverly Cleary, has one of her characters playing make 
believe with her best friend and before the game can start they "have to get rid of the 
parents." Have them eaten by wolves, lost in a snow storm, captured by pirates, but no 
children's fantasy story can start until the parents are out of the picture. Think about it. 
Narnia, Nancy Drew, Little Women, the Melendy family, etc. all have children managing 
with little or no parental involvment. 





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