(Hyuck. Get it? Paging?) Anyway, children of the 70s and 80s, please to check out the weekly Fine Lines feature over at Jezebel: “a sentimental, sometimes-critical, far more wizened look at the children’s and YA books we loved in our youth.” It’s kind of like TWOP for YA lit.
In addition to obvious choices like A Wrinkle in Time and The Witch of Blackbird Pond, they’ve also written about books I was pretty sure no one but me (and the GISP — hi ladies!) had ever read. Girl with the Silver Eyes, y’all! The Cat Ate My Gymsuit!
When I win the regular Plotfinder contest (and I will; mark my words!), I will ask for them to cover Remember Me to Harold Square.
7 responses so far ↓
1 gnomicutterance // Jun 9, 2008 at 8:52 am
what I’ve discovered since I reached adulthood is that practically every geek girl of my acquaintance read and adored The Girl with Silver Eyes. And yet it never makes any lists of classics. Still in print, though.
2 michelle // Jun 9, 2008 at 9:29 am
I loved The Girl with the Silver Eyes!
3 jfpbookworm // Jun 9, 2008 at 11:48 am
Interesting set of books. Now if they’d throw some Zilpha Keatley Snyder in there, I’d be in heaven.
I’ve read the vast majority of them; the ones I haven’t tend to be ones that were a little bit before my time, but hadn’t yet been recognized as “classic.”
4 Jaas // Jun 9, 2008 at 1:00 pm
John Bellairs! Robot with the Killer Eyes!
5 Miriam // Jun 9, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I too loved The Girl with the Silver Eyes. And pretty much everything else on this list. I can’t believe other people read The Grounding of Group Six
6 Jessie // Jun 9, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I think I just spent a half hour reading through all of those summaries and going “Silver eyes! The Westing Game! Little House in the Big Woods!”
I’d love to see their take on The Egypt Game. Or yes, John Bellairs.
7 Doug Orleans // Jun 9, 2008 at 9:15 pm
I was just the other day thinking fondly about the Great Brain books (for the first time in decades). I’d love to see some of those revisited.
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