[Herbalist] RE: Matilda Bone by Karen Cushman

[Wendy Freeman/Otte]

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:
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>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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