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On Apr 17, 7:07�am, Banty wrote:


For younger kids, I greatly admire the books of Virginia Lee Burton. �Who
did
use characters (but she didn't cutsify the inanimate things that were
featured -
they would get faces of sort sometimes and names, but not too
characterized) to
present stories regarding urban sprawl, obsolescence (Mike Mulligan and
his
Steam Shovel), civic action, civic maintenance.


Have you read _Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type_?

LOL. My kids loved that one.

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On Apr 17, 7:07=EF=BF=BDam, Banty wrote:


For younger kids, I greatly admire the books of Virginia Lee Burton. =EF=
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use characters (but she didn't cutsify the inanimate things that were feat=
ured -
they would get faces of sort sometimes and names, but not too characterize=
d) to
present stories regarding urban sprawl, obsolescence (Mike Mulligan and hi=
s
Steam Shovel), civic action, civic maintenance.


Have you read _Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type_?

--Helen

No.

Why?

Banty


OK - I looked it up; it looks like yet another cutsie allegory. Kids books are
full of them. This time - cows protesting.

And this is what I ran into when my son was younger - "what about that book",
"what about THIS book". "What's WRONG" (as if I said there was something
*wrong*) "..with that OTHER book? My kids LOOOVE that book." Well, he can read
that book *and* a meatier book.

I guess it's hard to put my finger on it, but there's just plain a level of
'real' and a surfiet of "must make them laugh" in kid's books.

Did you know Virginia Lee Burton presented the 1947 Citizen's Committee to Save
the Cable Cars in San Fransisco in a children's book? One that's stood the test
of time and is still in print?

Banty

On Apr 17, 9:19*am, Banty wrote:
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On Apr 17, 7:07=EF=BF=BDam, Banty wrote:

For younger kids, I greatly admire the books of Virginia Lee Burton. =EF=
=BF=BDWho did
use characters (but she didn't cutsify the inanimate things that were feat=
ured -
they would get faces of sort sometimes and names, but not too characterize=
d) to
present stories regarding urban sprawl, obsolescence (Mike Mulligan and hi=
s
Steam Shovel), civic action, civic maintenance.

Have you read _Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type_?

--Helen

No.

Why?

Banty

OK - I looked it up; it looks like yet another cutsie allegory. *Kids books are
full of them. *This time - cows protesting.

And this is what I ran into when my son was younger - "what about that book",
"what about THIS book". "What's WRONG" (as if I said there was something
*wrong*) "..with that OTHER book? *My kids LOOOVE that book." *Well, he can read
that book *and* a meatier book.

I guess it's hard to put my finger on it, but there's just plain a level of
'real' and a surfiet of "must make them laugh" in kid's books.

Oh, I know, I know. But _The Little House_ isn't *that* meaty, either.
(It always bugged me that there was apparently supposed to be some
infinite supply of country "out there" where you could just DECIDE
where to put the house.) Considered on that level, _Click Clack Moo_
is pretty good (I never thought of it as an allegory, by the way, but
that may be because I hate allegories on general principles, so
anything I *like* mustn't be an allegory, doncha know ...). And I
didn't find the humor to be condescending make-the-kiddies-laugh
stuff.

--Helen

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Steam Shovel), civic action, civic maintenance.

Have you read _Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type_?

--Helen

No.

Why?

Banty

OK - I looked it up; it looks like yet another cutsie allegory. =A0Kids bo=
oks are
full of them. =A0This time - cows protesting.

And this is what I ran into when my son was younger - "what about that boo=
k",
"what about THIS book". "What's WRONG" (as if I said there was something
*wrong*) "..with that OTHER book? =A0My kids LOOOVE that book." =A0Well, h=
e can read
that book *and* a meatier book.

I guess it's hard to put my finger on it, but there's just plain a level o=
f
'real' and a surfiet of "must make them laugh" in kid's books.

Oh, I know, I know. But _The Little House_ isn't *that* meaty, either.
(It always bugged me that there was apparently supposed to be some
infinite supply of country "out there" where you could just DECIDE
where to put the house.) Considered on that level, _Click Clack Moo_
is pretty good (I never thought of it as an allegory, by the way, but
that may be because I hate allegories on general principles, so
anything I *like* mustn't be an allegory, doncha know ...). And I
didn't find the humor to be condescending make-the-kiddies-laugh
stuff.


"The Little House" is probably the *least* meaty of her books, but it's still a
groundbreaking topic (especially for the time) and the story is told largely
through her pictures. She's an artist by trainig, after all.

Banty

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:11:34 +1000, Chookie
wrote:

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http://www.rocketroberts.com/how_and...ow_and_why.htm


I have Books for World Explorers from National Geographic Society
published in the 1980s. I don't know that you can get these
particular books, but National Geographic has a kids books section
http://shop.nationalgeographic.com/j...=264 3&KICKER
It has 6 pages of books for 4 to 8 year olds

Titles a
Your Wonderful Body
How Things are Made
Amazing Animals of the Sea
Wilderness Challenge
Our Violent Earth
Secrets of Animal Survival
Computers: Those Amazing Machines
Hidden Worlds
How Things Work
Safari
Zoos Without Cages
Why in the World?
The Secret World of Animals
Fun with Physics
Far Out Facts

Another series I have is Life Young Readers which is even older
published in the late 60s and early 70s.

Titles a
Early Man
The Desert
Evolution
The Birds
Animal Behavior
The Sea
The Earth

The Time-Life Science Books

Titles are
Mathematics
Time
The Body
Weather

These are geared for older kids though.

I get most of these things at library book sales.



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Dorothy

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