Comments on: No Crystal Stair: Significant & Worthy, but… http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/2012/10/07/no-crystal-stair/ by Karyn Silverman and Sarah Couri Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:03:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: No Crystal Stair | the dirigible plum http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/2012/10/07/no-crystal-stair/#comment-14205 No Crystal Stair | the dirigible plum Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:17:06 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/?p=1454#comment-14205 [...] really appreciated Sophie Brookover’s careful consideration at SLJ’s Printz Blog and I agree with many of her points.. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike [...] [...] really appreciated Sophie Brookover’s careful consideration at SLJ’s Printz Blog and I agree with many of her points.. Share this:TwitterFacebookLike [...]

]]> By: Alys http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/2012/10/07/no-crystal-stair/#comment-8524 Alys Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:05:49 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/?p=1454#comment-8524 Looking at the source notes, it says that Calvin's story was taken from an article about Micheaux, which implies to me that the incident was true (in the most part) even if the specific name or time is not. Looking at the source notes, it says that Calvin’s story was taken from an article about Micheaux, which implies to me that the incident was true (in the most part) even if the specific name or time is not.

]]> By: Mark Flowers http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/2012/10/07/no-crystal-stair/#comment-8499 Mark Flowers Wed, 10 Oct 2012 21:39:56 +0000 http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/?p=1454#comment-8499 I sort of thought someone else would chime in here, but since no one else has, here's my two cents: I fall somewhere between Sophie and Jonathan. I wouldn't put it in my top 10 YA or Children's books for the year, but I do think that it is a remarkable piece of work, much better than a B-/C+ for literariness. I found the prose to be well above average - at least a strong B+, and I thought the whole style of interlocking vignettes worked very well to tell a long life story in a blessedly short space (didn't get a sense of plodding at all). I also completely disagree about Calvin and Snooze - I was actually surprised to find out that they were fictional and would be shocked if there aren't many real people whose experiences closely matched those two. As I said, I'm not arguing for this to win any awards, but I think it's a strong book that deserves a strong readership. I sort of thought someone else would chime in here, but since no one else has, here’s my two cents: I fall somewhere between Sophie and Jonathan. I wouldn’t put it in my top 10 YA or Children’s books for the year, but I do think that it is a remarkable piece of work, much better than a B-/C+ for literariness. I found the prose to be well above average – at least a strong B+, and I thought the whole style of interlocking vignettes worked very well to tell a long life story in a blessedly short space (didn’t get a sense of plodding at all). I also completely disagree about Calvin and Snooze – I was actually surprised to find out that they were fictional and would be shocked if there aren’t many real people whose experiences closely matched those two.

As I said, I’m not arguing for this to win any awards, but I think it’s a strong book that deserves a strong readership.

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