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He had returned from the wilderness trip with a resolve deep inside to deal with the situation as he found it. “Joe walked quietly among friends, touching base, checking in with his men, many who called this church their home, to see how they were coping after a few days off. Sisters Celie and Nettie share the pain and struggle of growing up as African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. And then I went back, the next day, and bought every copy they had'Ī powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. 'I got the book and read it, in one day, when it came out. 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One named Mabel.Īlso there is intriguingly a lot about TH White, author of the Once and Future King, which I read many years ago but didn’t think much of. Well whatever it was that actually made me download the library e-book and open it up on the kindle to read, it was meant to be. So what drew me to H is for Hawk? The intriguing woodcut cover perhaps? Its winning the 2014 Costa book award. Hawks and birds of prey aren’t exactly my (or most people’s) idea of a pet. I’m not very fond of birds, having been woken up by one too many monstrous seagulls squawking just outside my window when I lived in Brighton for a year. For sure, hawks are lovely, almost regal birds, but they’re not something I’ve ever given a second thought to. If you had told me that I would pick up a book about hawks and loved every single minute of it, I might have laughed. In Britain it has remained a standard of children’s literature in the same way that “Charlotte’s Web” is in the United States. (She also wrote 16 adult novels, as well as plays and short stories.) Her first children’s book, “Ballet Shoes,” about three adopted sisters who attend a stage school in Bloomsbury, established her reputation, founded a genre (the stage-school novel) and was perhaps her greatest success. There had to be grit and perseverance too.Ĭentral to that ethos were the novels of Noel Streatfeild (1895-1986), the daughter of a vicar who was briefly an actress before writing 38 children’s novels between 19. If you wanted to be a ballerina or anything else, talent and looks weren’t enough. There were stern Russian dancing masters and flighty French teachers, and a particularly British strain that ran through all of this a solemn message. I was raised on a diet of boarding and ballet schools, sports days and summer hols, of aspiring dancers trudging through rainy London and riding horses over the purple heather of the Scottish Highlands. South Africa was already independent from Britain when I was growing up in Cape Town, but in matters of children’s literature, it was still entirely in thrall to colonialism. Ray Maxwell Storified a Twitter conversation, and also highlighted one rich passage: Lora Taub-Pervizpour described and reflects on her experience as an educator in Brazil, trying to use Freire’s work. Grant Potter blogged about the first two chapters. Laura Ritchie posts about books, pigs, and the cello, then about book learning, systems, and more. Maha Bali thinks about reading and reading the book. Kyle Johnson explores neutrality and bias. John Stewart posts about the organization discussion and also the book’s resonances with Software Carpentry. Since that post went up those readers and others have been blogging their reading like mad.įor example, Bonnie Stewart relates Horton’s and Freire’s projects to a fascinating Canadian education movement. I’m also going to add a new section, Book Club Activity, because so many people have been so active across the web.Ī few days ago I posted about how readers have been creating stuff about the book online, from Twitter to images to blogs. Here I’ll offer a summary of the reading, followed by some reflections and discussion questions. In this post we can discuss chapter 4, “Educational Practice”. Welcome to our book club’s ongoing reading of We Make the Road by Walking. |