we finished reading noel streatfeild's party shoes this morning. it's actually a book we found in the library . . very surprising, as it is getting more difficult finding books published prior to 1970/80 these days. many of the older books have gone out of print, and the price value has gone up for the ones still circulating (lucile morrison's the lost queen of egypt now sells for over a hundred dollars). this was reprinted by oxford university press and a librarian somewhere in the vast myriad of nyc library branches decided to purchase it. hooray for us. (we checked out circus shoes from the library about three years ago, but it has now been pulled from circulation. you can only read it in the main library branch. it's nice that one can still go and read it . . but for reading out loud together . . it's just not convenient or as nice . . especially when you're like us and enjoy reading first thing in the morning in bed). this book took place in england during the end of world war ii, and was about a family putting on a pageant on the grounds of an old abbey (a pageant that ends up including everyone in the entire village).
afterwards, m and c worked on italian, handwriting, greek and math.
and then they had ballet classes . . morgana uptown and chanda downtown. korrina went to midtown for her class with the mcc youth company in their playwriting lab.
I would also recommend, if you can find it, Noel Streatfeild's book The Growing Summer (also called The Magic Summer). It is about children being sent to live with their crazy aunt in Ireland while their parents do war work (WWII). It is a great one.
ReplyDeletehello robyn, yes! thanks so much for reminding me of that great book. we found it at the library in amagansett just this past summer. it's special finding books like that on a library shelf. we enjoyed it immensely. i thought it was one of her best. have you ever read _thursday's child_ or _when the sirens wailed_?
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