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Children's Historical Fiction
Jan. 12th, 2016 07:07 pmI've been reworking my Fourth of July book, having decided that the way to salvage it is to introduce a new love interest, a love interest who is also a bookworm, endless book talk being as we all know the most romantic thing in the world. I'm thinking I really will create a series called Romances for Book-Lovers. I think that really sums up the appeal of these books.
The heroine is a soon-to-be fourth-grade teacher, while the hero is the director of a local history museum. Naturally, they talk about children's historical fiction, which fortuitously I've read a whole bunch of.
The Little House books, Caddie Woodlawn, Rascal and Johnny Tremain, Catherine, Called Birdy - although I think I should focus mainly on historical fiction set in the US, this being a Fourth of July book; I'll have to wait for another book to get my Rosemary Sutcliff on.
I won't be able to talk The Montmaray Chronicles or Code Name Verity either. Damn. But I guess those are too complicated for most fourth graders, anyway.
Where was I? The Witch of Blackbird Pond, naturally. The American Girl books and the Dear America series will probably come in for a mention. (Are they still publishing new Dear America books? I loooooooved the Dear America books. They may be responsible for my affection for diary-formatted books. ...Okay, I went and looked it up, and they seem to have re-released the books with uglier covers. Why would they do that? The books had perfectly good covers and the publisher replaced them with these horrid cheap-looking computer-generated portraits.
I thought I had read a whole bunch of these, but looking at the series list on Wikipedia, it looks like I only read the first few. I was an unsystematic reader when I was eleven.)
And I've read Summer of My German Soldier, but I didn't like that very much so I'll probably pass it gracefully by. There's definitely going to be at least one scene devoted to decrying Out of the Dust, though. My charity does not extend to leaving that book unscathed.
This isn't everything I've read, naturally, just the ones that are coming to mind at the moment. Is there anything else that I just have to read for this? You know, for research?
...I'm going to have to read Ann Rinaldi, aren't I? Damn.
The heroine is a soon-to-be fourth-grade teacher, while the hero is the director of a local history museum. Naturally, they talk about children's historical fiction, which fortuitously I've read a whole bunch of.
The Little House books, Caddie Woodlawn, Rascal and Johnny Tremain, Catherine, Called Birdy - although I think I should focus mainly on historical fiction set in the US, this being a Fourth of July book; I'll have to wait for another book to get my Rosemary Sutcliff on.
I won't be able to talk The Montmaray Chronicles or Code Name Verity either. Damn. But I guess those are too complicated for most fourth graders, anyway.
Where was I? The Witch of Blackbird Pond, naturally. The American Girl books and the Dear America series will probably come in for a mention. (Are they still publishing new Dear America books? I loooooooved the Dear America books. They may be responsible for my affection for diary-formatted books. ...Okay, I went and looked it up, and they seem to have re-released the books with uglier covers. Why would they do that? The books had perfectly good covers and the publisher replaced them with these horrid cheap-looking computer-generated portraits.
I thought I had read a whole bunch of these, but looking at the series list on Wikipedia, it looks like I only read the first few. I was an unsystematic reader when I was eleven.)
And I've read Summer of My German Soldier, but I didn't like that very much so I'll probably pass it gracefully by. There's definitely going to be at least one scene devoted to decrying Out of the Dust, though. My charity does not extend to leaving that book unscathed.
This isn't everything I've read, naturally, just the ones that are coming to mind at the moment. Is there anything else that I just have to read for this? You know, for research?
...I'm going to have to read Ann Rinaldi, aren't I? Damn.
