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In a message dated 9/20/2002 9:34:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:


> Rachel, Laurie read all of Edward Eager's books when she was young,
> and at age 22, she just read them again. It's one of the authors she
> always recommends to parents when they come into the bookstore
> looking for books their kids might enjoy.

And that got my kids interested in E. Nesbitt books (because Edward Eager
mentions them in his books) and then PBS showed the WONDERFUL movie of "The
Railway Children" -- it was lovely.

My oldest daughter was in school until 4th grade. Yet ANOTHER reason I
started giving up on school was that her teacher couldn't get permission to
have "Half Magic" be used in their supposedly "Literature-Based Mathematics"
program. Half-Magic was not on the approved literature list for the State of
California -- so she applied to have it added and it was turned down. The
only explanation was that it was "too old and outdated." She and I were both
disgusted -- what kind of reason is THAT? Are they going to use that reason
for eliminating all the great literature of the past? Yeah, right.

--pam

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