Yes! I was going to mention "A Dog on Barkham Street" too! I still remember Martin coming home and his dog being gone. That was just the meanest thing.
TBCPE just knocks me out. It's so incredibly funny but the end completely chokes me up without being maudlin. I remember as a kid seeing it on that show on PBS where the guy used to sketch a picture from the book while the text was read--that was the first thing I heard of it.
I am definitely an adult who loves kid's lit and I have a lot of books still. In a few weeks I'm going to a reunion for everybody who worked at Eeyore's--that's the children's bookstore where I used to work. One of us is trying to do an article for Publisher's Weekly about how so many of us are still working in children's books. It's great how I still meet people today and when I say I worked there they go, "You worked at Eeyore's?? I loved Eeyore's!" especially when they were a kid when they went there.
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Date: 2003-07-13 06:06 pm (UTC)TBCPE just knocks me out. It's so incredibly funny but the end completely chokes me up without being maudlin. I remember as a kid seeing it on that show on PBS where the guy used to sketch a picture from the book while the text was read--that was the first thing I heard of it.
I am definitely an adult who loves kid's lit and I have a lot of books still. In a few weeks I'm going to a reunion for everybody who worked at Eeyore's--that's the children's bookstore where I used to work. One of us is trying to do an article for Publisher's Weekly about how so many of us are still working in children's books. It's great how I still meet people today and when I say I worked there they go, "You worked at Eeyore's?? I loved Eeyore's!" especially when they were a kid when they went there.