Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels #75: The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright

By: Styling Librarian: Top 15 Recommendations for Early Chapter Books/Fiction and Audiobooks « The Styling Librarian

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 01:30:50 +0000

[...] approachable and enjoyed by my son presently. I’m also quite fond of these sibling stories: The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright, all of Noel Streatfield’s shoes stories including Ballet Shoes by Noel [...]

By: Louise

Louise — Thu, 31 May 2012 13:23:50 +0000

I think my favorite part of this book was Rush going to the opera. I loved Wagner, too, and reading about a boy who didn’t think it at all “sissy” to go to the opera just made me so happy.

By: Books Are Like a Box of Chocolates | Master Piece

Books Are Like a Box of Chocolates | Master Piece — Thu, 31 May 2012 02:53:18 +0000

[...] 75. The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright [...]

By: Karen Maurer

Karen Maurer — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:43:41 +0000

Oops, the Melendy Maze might actually be Spiderweb for Two. Its the book in which the older Melendys send puzzles and clues to the younger two.

By: Karen Maurer

Karen Maurer — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:42:31 +0000

I read all the Melendy books to my son when he was small. We particularly liked The Melendy Maze, but The Four Story MIstake was a lot of fun as well.

By: Jess

Jess — Mon, 21 May 2012 18:14:04 +0000

I recently rediscovered this series and fell hard – now I wish I’d voted for this one!

By: ChrisinNY

ChrisinNY — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:36:06 +0000

I always wondered if this title seems a bit more dated to current readers than others in the Melendy set? The Four Story Mistake and Spiderweb for Two were always my favorite of this series Our library did not have the latter, so I had to spend a hard earned quarter for an ILL to get to read it. Enright was such a favorite that she was part of the inspiration for my daughter’s name.

By: rockinlibrarian

rockinlibrarian — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:03:57 +0000

This was the one book on the last list that I thought I’d NEVER EVEN HEARD OF.* When I said so, one of my best friends went off on me that she’d been trying to get me to read this for YEARS (she’d just said “the Melendy books” though, which is why I didn’t recognize it) and I needed to STOP WHATEVER I WAS DOING AND READ IT NOW. So I did. And of course I loved it. The great things these countdowns inspire us to do!

*There have already been several of those this time *blush*