I figure my Elementary School had Katherine Paterson's, Bridge to Terabithia on a shit-list of some sort. That's why I never read it as a kid.
I went to a private school. A Christian private school. A school so uptight, it made St. Paul's, the local Catholic school, look like some sort of inner-city den of iniquity. A school that didn't hire ... even part time ... liberated, new-age hippy music teachers, like Bridge's Miss Edmunds. A school that prayed regularly, said the Pledge of Allegiance and would blackball in a heartbeat, even a Newberry Medal-Winner, with a character like short-haired, pants wearing Leslie Burke, who says, and I paraphrase, that she didn't believe God went around damning people straight to hell.
Why Leslie, don't be such a silly girl.
Sigh. What else did I miss out on?
Anyway, I've read Bridge to Terabithia now. Got a lovely signed '77 hardcover edition. Cried like a baby. Wonderful read. Highly recommend it.
This was my all-time favorite book as a child. There was a patch of woods behind my house growing up that I called Terabithia. I even had a rope swing from a tree. Others from that time period that I loved:
ReplyDeleteJacob have I loved, also by Katherine Paterson
A Ring of Endless Light, by Madeleine L'Engle (actually, any L'Engle book called to me)
Pigman, by Paul Zindel
A Solitary Blue, by Cynthia Voigt.
I love books!
Me too! And thank you so much for the suggestions. I've put them all on my 'to read' list. Can't wait!
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