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Tag: Scott O'Dell
Top 100 Children’s Novels #45: Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
#45 Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell (1960) 45 points This book took me to another time and place, unlike any other book. Haunting. Before Katniss, there was Karana. – DeAnn Okamura Oo. Leave it to DeAnn to come up with the best line of them all. “Before Katniss, there was Karana”. I […]
I am big. It’s the children that got small.
We’ve been doing a fair amount of weeding in the old Children’s Center these days. I’ve taken on the challenge of tackling the fiction. Weeding a fiction collection is rather like weeding a garden. There’s a lot of dead heading involved. Space to fill. Dead matter to discard. While going through the books of yesteryear […]
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