Flashback! Who had a pair of these wheels?! I did 👋🏾👋🏾 I can still hear them on the pavement.
I‘m so far behind on my #ChildrensClassicRead2023 #April
But this book is so delightful, I have to finish it.
Sweet Lucinda‘s uncle gave her money they bet on when she was 10 yo - knowing all along he was going to lose.
She bet she would not get the ‘Snobbiness Disease‘!
pickFinished this last month for #childrensclassicread2023 challenge. I thoroughly enjoyed young Lucinda‘s vacation from her well to do family while her parents traveled abroad. She was allowed the opportunity to experience life outside of her limited circle while exploring the streets of NYC on her roller skates. New adventures every day! I discovered that skating was all the rage and there was even a specially designed corset for the mature woman.
pickThis was a pleasant read, for the most part, though I agree with other reviews that the first death is just really weird and doesn‘t seem to fit with much. The second death had me bawling. I found the ending unsatisfying but probably realistic. My mom read this as a kid and loved it, now I‘ve read it, and kiddo has, too. I love passing books down through the generations. This reminded me of All-of-a-Kind Family in the setting and friendships.
“It‘s silly to believe that you learn everything at school.I know now what it meant in the Bible when it talked about the stars singing together.I‘ve closed my eyes some of the time,and when I do that‘s what it is-the stars singing together.Johanna says the loveliest music in Ireland was caught by some lad going to sleep with his ear to a fairy rath.Do you suppose Beethoven went to sleep with his ear to the stars?”
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pickI found this book, set in late 19th-century NY, to be mostly a delight. During a year when her parents are away in Italy, Lucinda's looked after by two ladies & roller skates her way through the city experiencing new things & people. I loved the details of her love for beauty, tabletop theatre performances, & falling in love with Shakespeare. There's quite a tragic turn towards the end as Lucinda learns about the hardships of life.
“Lucinda stubbed her toe frequently and would have fallen had not the Night Owl and Tony held firmly to her hands. And this was because she could never cross Madison Square without tilting her head far back to see the magnificent new tower on it, and Diana on tiptoe, bending her bow,to speed its arrow across the city,”I love Diana,”said Lucinda… “She‘s the goddess, defending the city,I hope she‘ll be there forever.” #childrensclassicread2023
“Lucinda avoided the devotion, but she wrote in her diary everything that she could be thankful for, and there was much.”
I have been thinking of a Gratitude Journal as a contemporary idea. #ChildrensClassicRead2023
Pg 20: Water Babies book is mentioned. I googled it and was surprised to find out what it was about!
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species.
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Yay! Not only does my library have the Newberry Award 🥇 winning Roller Skates, they have 2 other cute-looking Ruth Sawyer books!
( they could work a little harder where they place the scanning code though! )
But here‘s the PDF @TheBookHippie kindly found
https://ia800200.us.archive.org/2/items/RollerSkates/rollerskates.pdf
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At first this seemed very much like other children's books written in the time it was set (not the time it was actually written.) Shades of E. Nesbit in Lucinda making friends with everyone and anyone, and always helping them. But it ended on a much sadder, more realistic note: Lucinda will not be allowed to continue her exuberant life of rollerskating and cross-class friendships.
“Isn't it elegant not to have tantrums any more! I guess half of it is because you don't expect them; and the other half is roller skates. They use up a lot of energy and iron out a lot of feelings. Like Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup they ought to be called the mother's friend.'"
It‘s an errand and reading day, while my son takes his screen reader class at the Braille Institute, Tuesday has been declared Starbucks day ☕️ #childrensclassicread2023
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So surprised to find out that my library had a copy of this title for this months read!
Screenshot from @oumi_janta on Instagram. She posted videos of herself and friends roller skating and they are an absolute joy to watch!
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The opening bars of #Freezeframe come on and I'm whisked back to the early 80s and roller skating with my friends at a rink called Happy Wheels. Good times!🕺🎶
This book is another classic of children's lit that I've still not read. It has nothing to do with photography. 📸📸📸
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I‘ve been reading Truman Capote‘s In Cold Blood this weekend and I‘m nearly finished but I have a headache tonight and wanted lighter fare before bed. This Newberry Award winner fits the bill and fulfills one of my 2018 challenge prompts. Win-win!
This is one #favoritechildrensbook among many, my mother's old copy that I read as a child. Lucinda is a temporary orphan, free to explore Manhattan on her skates at the turn of the last century. She has her supportive and antagonistic relatives. She makes friends, and one dies --I think it was my first book with a real shock of grief in it. She's crazy for The Tempest and has a wonderful tabletop theater I still wish for.
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