Comments on: Top 100 Children’s Novels #25: The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/04/top-100-childrens-novels-25-the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963-by-christopher-paul-curtis/ A School Library Journal Blog Thu, 23 May 2013 18:57:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: rockinlibrarian http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/04/top-100-childrens-novels-25-the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963-by-christopher-paul-curtis/#comment-783130 rockinlibrarian Tue, 05 Jun 2012 01:41:48 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=13542#comment-783130 This is another of the ones I can't remember if I voted for or not. This is another of the ones I can’t remember if I voted for or not.

]]> By: Genevieve http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/04/top-100-childrens-novels-25-the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963-by-christopher-paul-curtis/#comment-782847 Genevieve Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:53:04 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=13542#comment-782847 Hooray! Such a terrific book. Another one from my list, and I didn't expect to see it so high. Hooray! Such a terrific book.
Another one from my list, and I didn’t expect to see it so high.

]]> By: DaNae http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/04/top-100-childrens-novels-25-the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963-by-christopher-paul-curtis/#comment-782599 DaNae Mon, 04 Jun 2012 16:08:34 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=13542#comment-782599 Another one of mine. A couple years ago I got to hear Christopher Paul Curtis speak. If you ever get the chance run all the red lights needed to get there. His story of getting off the assembly line is riveting. Talking about the cover photographs: that's his little sister, those are his parents, but he has no idea who the two boys are. Curtis can't write a book I won't adore. I'd just like to see him try. (Yep, I'm a fan of Deza, unempowered protagonist that she is.) Another one of mine.

A couple years ago I got to hear Christopher Paul Curtis speak. If you ever get the chance run all the red lights needed to get there. His story of getting off the assembly line is riveting. Talking about the cover photographs: that’s his little sister, those are his parents, but he has no idea who the two boys are.

Curtis can’t write a book I won’t adore. I’d just like to see him try. (Yep, I’m a fan of Deza, unempowered protagonist that she is.)

]]> By: ChrisinNY http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2012/06/04/top-100-childrens-novels-25-the-watsons-go-to-birmingham-1963-by-christopher-paul-curtis/#comment-782455 ChrisinNY Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:35:15 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/?p=13542#comment-782455 Oh I am so glad this made it! I lobbied hard for my daughter's 5th grade teacher to allow the students to read this instead of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (which gave my kid nightmares). It is such a good book- entertaining and also a window on another time with different social mores. Oh I am so glad this made it! I lobbied hard for my daughter’s 5th grade teacher to allow the students to read this instead of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (which gave my kid nightmares). It is such a good book- entertaining and also a window on another time with different social mores.

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