tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post1555360351177297881..comments2024-03-28T19:52:07.635-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: Friday "Forgotten" Books, Junior Edition: THE LONER by Ester WierTodd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-6852699856561556952008-07-04T13:54:00.000-04:002008-07-04T13:54:00.000-04:00I liked BOWDITCH, but don't remember much of it......I liked BOWDITCH, but don't remember much of it...the ones I remember being most disappointed with were SHADOW OF A BULL and THE TRUMPETER OF KRAKOW, particularly after how good the dramatization of the latter was. Irene Hunt's ACROSS FIVE APRILS was pretty solid, too, and JOHNNY TREMAINE (fascinating to me what the Miller/Brody audio drama left out from the book, vs. what the Disney film left out...also interesting to me were some of the evergreen classics I liked that didn't get any Newbery attention, as far as I knew, such as Conrad Richter's THE LIGHT IN THE FOREST or, less unlikely, Howard Fast's adult but YA-adjacent APRIL MORNING.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-69704504090168502752008-07-04T13:39:00.000-04:002008-07-04T13:39:00.000-04:00And, my favorite Newbery, an odd choice, probably,...And, my favorite Newbery, an odd choice, probably, was Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, by Jean Lee Latham. I was always fascinated that he could teach himself languages by reading the Bible.Lesahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12946133849271512083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-36139491075141979102008-07-04T10:50:00.000-04:002008-07-04T10:50:00.000-04:00Well, as I say, Terrie, it's easily available on t...Well, as I say, Terrie, it's easily available on the secondhand market...Scholastic just not quite making enough money off of Harry Potter to keep such trivia as Newbery runners-up in print (I note that CAT is in print from Harper Trophy/HC). Eleanor Clymer's MY BROTHER STEVIE is also worth the (easy) search. While not everything on the Newbery shortlists is first-rate, as I note, that is a good start...any entity that put me onto Scott O'Dell's THE ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS and SING DOWN THE MOON, Armstrong Sperry's CALL IT COURAGE, M. De Yong's THE WHEEL ON THE SCHOOL, CADDIE WOODLAWN, THE DOOR IN THE WALL (this one more a novelet than even a novella, but good), GINGER PYE and its sequel, Bill Crider's choice for the YA/kids list, THE TWENTY-ONE BALLOONS (by the same William Pene Du Bois who as part of the founding group for THE PARIS REVIEW, now a shadow of its former self), and the books I mention in the post...can't fault it too much.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-38956756785494151142008-07-04T10:42:00.000-04:002008-07-04T10:42:00.000-04:00This sounds like a book that should still be in pr...This sounds like a book that should still be in print. Too bad. Still I'll hold on to the name and author.<BR/><BR/>Thanks.<BR/><BR/>TerrieTerrie Farley Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980849018232866773noreply@blogger.com