Everybody Reads the Same Book--extra copies
Dates: 2/5/04,1:36 PM through 2/5/04,1:36 PM (1 posting)
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FROM: "Nancy Mulder" <[removed]@kdl.org>
REC'D: 2/5/04, 1:36 PM
Last year Kent District Library used Leif Enger's Peace Like a River for our One Book, One County program. We have weeded our extra copies and would like to offer them free to anybody who is willing to pay the shipping charges. We have 150 paperbacks, 3 hardcovers, 3 large print and 11 audio copies. They do have removable attractive stickers on them (saying "One Book, One County") but the stickers won't come off, unfortunately.
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From: David Wright [[removed]@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:14 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: children's book--possibly titled The Invisible Island
It really does sound like Dean Marshall's 'The
Invisible Island':
"When the Guthrie's moved to a Connecticut
village they found an island on their own farm
and experimented in living out the things they's
read about, happy castaways from home."
""Actually it was an island! Right in the middle
of the wooded acres surrounding their new home up
in Connecticut! On one side was the pond, on
another a wide brook, and running from that to
the pond, another, narrower brook. So here the
four young Guthries were, 'castaway on a desert
island' which they promptly named Invisible."
"Mother sent 'rations' from 'the wreck' which was
the name they gave the house beyond the orchard;
David discovered a cave; Winkie who still
believed in fairies, caught a glimpse of a dryad
(with freckles); and a pleasant shivery mystery
hung over the island from the very beginning.
Solved, it put the happiest possible ending to a
story already bursting with all the things
children love. Here are summertime and the out of
doors and make believe all woven into a story of
exceptional beauty." (from the dust jacket)
The Invisible Island and the last two novels
share the same characters and setting. Dean's
writing seemed to have matured greatly in these
last three novels, and I consider them to be her
best, easily the equal of Newbery Medal books of
the same era. As a result they are best for a
slightly more mature audience. The characters are
much more complex and fully realized, and include
older characters. Admittedly, however, the last
three lack the charming -- almost naïve --
innocence of the first two novels. Invisible
Island follows the same timeless theme as in A
House for Elizabeth, a family crowded into a
dingy city apartment finding joy and freedom in a
rural lifestyle. Younger modern readers may well
be unaware of the terrible housing shortage in
the U.S. after World War II. One can also imagine
that Dean Marshall's experiences working with
children in dingy apartments in Hartford during
the war influenced the her writing. The
resulting novels, however, are pure joy."
from:
athttp://users.adelphia.net/~deanfan/deanmarshall/index.html
see also:
http://users.adelphia.net/~deanfan/deanmarshall/page6.html
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