Re: children's literature

Manny Karbelnig (aj667@lafn.org)
Wed, 13 Mar 1996 09:02:09 -0800 

Mary: Thanks for your kind note. I will order these books from our local
bookseller, and after reading them, will donate them to the Children's
section of our Village library.
On a personal note- I am a lifelong book-lover and collector, who has,
as a child, learned the joys of books, and was a regular habitue of
the local library. I was brought up and educated in Chicago. Every Saturday
afternoon the local librarian would read from the classics. I was
enthralled by the stories, often took the books home after the reading,
and each week became desperately in love with the librarian. Alas,
the torments and delights of youth. I read everything H. Rider Haggard
wrote, and later, as an adult, I visited Africa on multiple occasions,
even had a guide who (I imagined) looked like Allen Quartermain. I also
spent many a happy hour, expecially on a rainly day, in the Main Library
downtown, looking thru a stereo-optigon (not sure of spelling), viewing
stereoscopic sights of visits around the world. Later, I was fortunate
enought to visit most places on this globe, had many adventures,but none
so thrilling as I had in my reading.
  Incidentally, and sorry to go on so long, I read and delighted in a
book by Helen Hamff, called "24 Charing Cross Road", representing the
correspondance between a book-lover and the manager of a bookstore in
London, during the Blitz-giving one a first-hand experience of life
during wartime England. I loVed that book so much, that I bought a
new copy, as well as the sequal 'The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street"- and
had them hand bound in leather by my pet bookbinder in London. They are
one of my treaures.
     Enough for now, stay well,






>
>As a social studies educator I am enjoying reading all of the questions and
>responses.  Thanks to all for your willingness to share. To the young readers
>Iwant to say that it is good to ask questions of those who lived during WWII,
>but it is also a good idea to read what others have previously recorded.
>
>Especially to Manny.  Here are two books for youth that tell of children's
>experiences during WWII and vividly describe bombings. Perhaps you will need
>to ask a book store to order the books for you or perhaps your school
>librarian will order the books for the school library.
>PEARL HARBOR CHILD (1993) by Dorinda Makanaonalani Nicholson Woodson House
>Publishing, P.O. Box 16536, Kansas City, MO 64133
>War Boy (1989) by Michael Foreman. New York: Arcade Publishing, Inc. (a
>Little Brown co).
>These books will give you a few from England and from Hawaii.  After learning
>of the attack on Pearl Harbor most of us forget about Hawaii and the war.  I
>learned much from both books and think that some of the other adults might
>also benefit from these books and might want to share them with their own
>grandchildren to help them get a more complete view of the impact of WWII.
>Mary E. Haas
>
>

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