[Herbalist] RE: Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman
Wendy Freeman/Otte
wyllowmacm at netscape.net
Tue Jul 2 07:45:48 PDT 2002
I haven't read Matilda Bone, but I've read her Midwife's Apprentice, and skimmed some of your other books. (They were gifts to a young lady I was mentoring - age 13.) They seemed to be well-written, if a bit gruesomely realistic on the details. They also seemed to be true-to-fact on the details. (Manure piles do make warm, if smelly beds, and childbirth is painful and messy, and I vaguely remember some herblore which matched my research...)
For an overall impression and review: an excellent writer for the mature child interested in women in the Middle Ages. I would not hesitate to allow my daughter to read her books, barring a quick age-appropriate check, and would look forward to a series of deep conversations afterwards.
(Background: I censor my daughter's reading, after blindly allowing her to absorb a filthy book "recommended" by the library - Dumb Bunnies <gag!> I insist on skimming the books for inappropriate content/themes before she may check them out. There are very few authors to which I give a "check-out-any-book" approval. Cushman will be one of them, when my daughter turns 13.)
Is this what you were looking for?
In Service,
--Wyllow
herbalist-request at ansteorra.org wrote:
>
>Message: 4
>From: Jenne Heise <jenne at mail.browser.net>
>To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
>Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 11:26:58 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: [Herbalist] anybody read _Matilda Bone_
>Reply-To: herbalist at ansteorra.org
>
>Anyone out there read the children's book _Matilda Bone_ by Karen Cushman?
>What did you think?
>--
>Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise jenne at mail.browser.net
>disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
>"There's nothing like being really disastrously silly to draw your
>attention to how silly you are..." -- Elizabeth Goudge
>
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