Comments on: The Co-Dependent Tree

By: duchess

duchess — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:08:24 +0000

Silly me I forgot the link: http://www.crn.com/it-channel/206501826

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:24:44 +0000

Oh my. Dare I ask what was on slide 5?

By: duchess

duchess — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:21:03 +0000

Late, but I thought of you when I saw slide #5 on “Children’s Books We Would Like to See” that my colleague put together.

By: Mary Crowell

Mary Crowell — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:22:18 +0000

I completely agree with you about The Giving Tree. What a depressing story — and pointless. I kept waiting for a turn about in the book all the way up to the end, then got there aghast. THere was no turning point. It reads like propaganda on how to be a good little mother to the state or perhaps the message is people suck from childhood to death.

I haven’t had that reaction to any of the poems Simon and I have read (so far) in Where the Sidewalk Ends. So maybe it is the one book of Silverstein’s that is like that. Maybe he was feeling particularly cynical when he wrote it.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:34:58 +0000

Chris, thank siliconchef for the link. And glad to be taking over your RSS feeds. Mua ha ha ha.

Lynnea, that page of Good Night Moon makes me laugh every time, and I’m a huge fan of Where the Wild Things Are.

By: Lynnea

Lynnea — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:28:48 +0000

Oh, I love Rainbow Fish! Ok, so I teach 4-5 year olds everyday–I have my oddities.

I somehow crack up even years into parenting with Good Night Moon. I mean, come on “Good Night No Body” with a blank page…haha. I love it.

Best children’s lit ever “Where the Wild Things Are” I found myself quoting it yesterday.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 02:15:13 +0000

yay, it’s not just me! I have *hated* that book ever since elementary school, where someone read it aloud at least once a year. Post title rules; that was always how I felt about it.

By: Chris S.

Chris S. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:03:33 +0000

Oh and on an almost unrelated comment. Stephen today I just figured out I could subscribe to the comments section of your blog via RSS and not just the post.

You can now take comfort in the fact that you hold 2 spots on my RSS feeds. I know that’s what really matters to you.

By: Chris S.

Chris S. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:01:44 +0000

ctate, that’s great thanks linking that. I don’t know how I have never heard of that book, I listen to boortz almost ever day.

By: ctate

ctate — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:51:22 +0000

I was unclear: it was made clear to me that this is What The Book Is About… but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it really is. And I agree that the implications/subtext are pretty awful.