Kidlitchat Transcript – March 2 (part 2)

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2:37 am SusanUhlig: welcome to @hollycupala #kidlitchat
2:37 am marcie8: Me too RT @adamselzer: I loved all of Gordon Korman’s early stuff. Wish he’d bring back Bugs Potter. #kidlitchat
2:37 am dawnmetcalf: @JessicaLeader I love/write speculative fiction. Anything that asks “What If…?” and poses an unlikely scenario & plays it out. #kidlitchat
2:37 am gregpincus: @PaulWHankins the transcripts are always posted at http://bit.ly/10ndtk (usually by the next morning) #kidlitchat
2:37 am TracyClark_TLC: Confession: First series I remember reading: Flowers in the Attic. I know…I know… #kidlitchat
2:38 am lisabrowndraws: I wanted to sleep in the MET! RT @dawnmetcalf: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. #kidlitchat
2:38 am hollycupala: I thought I wanted to write the Great American Novel until I read The Stinky Cheese Man. #kidlitchat
2:38 am Brent_Watson41: @amithaknight Oh sorry, I was kidding. I love Shakespeare, actually. I do really hate Nancy Drew. #kidlitchat
2:38 am dawnmetcalf: @Martychan13 *gasp* You can DO that?!? ;-) #kidlitchat
2:38 am JessicaLeader: And as a writing teacher, I’d add that there’s nothing so thrilling as reading writing by a kid who’s really got something. Ahh! #kidlitchat
2:38 am SuePinto: Yes, never liked Shakespeare, hated Wuthering Heights, not crazy about Steinbeck. Sorry. #kidlitchat
2:38 am gregpincus: @adamselzer I wonder what would happen if Bugs Potter met Bugs Meany? #kidlitchat
2:38 am DDHearn: @aimeebartis Maybe we should team up! #kidlitchat
2:38 am paulgreci: @PaulWHankins My favorite HS teacher was my English Teacher. We are still in touch after 28 years. #kidlitchat
2:38 am heatherwpetty: @lisabrowndraws Strange, and still I loved it. MacDonald still charms me to this day. #kidlitchat
2:38 am crcook: @amithaknight bye! #kidlitchat
2:38 am amithaknight: @DDHearn I also made up my own “just so” stories (rudyard kipling). they are pretty funny to read back. #kidlitchat
2:38 am dawnmetcalf: @Brent_Watson41 Fie! Nancy was a nancy, but the Bard?? (I still laugh aloud when reading Shakespeare.) #kidlitchat
2:38 am ImSarahEnni: @adamselzer Saying I didn’t like Steinbeck when I was 12 doesn’t mean I dislike him now — def. wasn’t ready for it then #kidlitchat
2:38 am heatherwpetty: @dosankodebbie THE LOST PRINCESS is my favorite. My dad read it to me when I was 4. Reading to my daughter now. #kidlitchat
2:39 am adamselzer: @gregpincus Bugs would be a big fan. Encyclopedia would figure out who Bugs really was WAY faster than anyone in the book. #kidlitchat
2:39 am KarlaKT: The Red Pony? Seriously… #kidlitchat
2:39 am lisabrowndraws: Strange = love. For me. RT @heatherwpetty: @lisabrowndraws Strange, and still I loved it. MacDonald still charms me to this day. #kidlitchat
2:39 am emilytastic: @adamselzer I’ve never read Austen and I’m not that into Twain. I DO love Alcott, Pushkin, Poe, Catullus, Shakespeare…. #kidlitchat
2:39 am dawnmetcalf: @lisabrowndraws Exactly! And pay for things with coins out of the fountain! #kidlitchat
2:39 am jemifraser: Wow – so neat to hear positive high school writing stories – we only wrote essays – absolutely no creative writing – ever! #kidlitchat
2:39 am marybrebner: @JessicaLeader Am so with you. My class did NaNo for young writers this year and I was thrilled with products & creativity! #kidlitchat
2:39 am 1truesentence: @SuePinto I am not a WH fan either. Had to read it 3x in HS/College. ugh. #kidlitchat
2:39 am YolaRamunno: @Buffyandrews I love Alfred Hitchcock and Ray Bradbury. #kidlitchat
2:39 am laurielyoung: Perfect! RT @hollycupala: I thought I wanted to write the Great American Novel until I read The Stinky Cheese Man. #kidlitchat
2:39 am PaulWHankins: RT @paulgreci: @PaulWHankins My favorite HS teacher was my English Teacher. We are still in touch after 28 years. #kidlitchat
2:39 am KidsTwit: @pussreboots my monster had lots of really long hair, so he wanted to steal bows. Not sure why he ate them ;) #kidlitchat
2:39 am PaulWHankins: RT @JessicaLeader: And as a writing teacher, I’d add that there’s nothing so thrilling as reading writing by a kid who’s really got something. Ahh! #kidlitchat
2:39 am shikokusue: @dosankodebbie Good idea! Maybe we should write some fun books for kids with recipes! #kidlitchat
2:39 am SheviStories: @SuePinto If you saw the Henry Winkler PBS special explaining Shakespeare, you might change your mind. #kidlitchat
2:39 am dawnmetcalf: ROFL! RT @Martychan13 @PaulWHankins @RindaElliott And the ones I feared were my gym teachers. #kidlitchat
2:39 am susanjsteward: Any phrases that stuck with you and maybe made you want to create same sort of magic? “Stout little boots” in Secret Garden. #kidlitchat
2:40 am DDHearn: I loved Call of the Wild and White Fang as a kid. I wrote a complete rip-off story about a wolf after reading them. #kidlitchat
2:40 am dosankodebbie: Oh I forgot about how deeply impressed I was by Jungle Book and Kim. They really spoke to me as a third culture kid. #kidlitchat
2:40 am amyknichols: My 6yo asked to read Where the Red Fern Grows. I’m not sure she’ll get over the heartache. I’m in my 30s and still haven’t, LOL! #kidlitchat
2:40 am davidhburton: Oh yeah, and The Chrysalids…that made me want to write. Loved it! #kidlitchat
2:40 am MardouLedger: @crcook Ooh, Little Women! Although Amy’s words about genius haunted me forEVER. #kidlitchat
2:40 am pussreboots: @jemifraser I had Susan Vreeland as my creative writing teacher in HS. This was before her writing career took off. :) #kidlitchat
2:40 am ImSarahEnni: @KarlaKT RT The Red Pony? Seriously? #kidlitchat HAHAHA That’s what I’m saying.
2:40 am PaulWHankins: @gregpincus Thanks, Greg. This is perfect for us. There is great narrative in here tonight. The retrospective of titles. Wow. #kidlitchat
2:40 am davidhburton: @amyknichols Same here. #kidlitchat
2:40 am MissCackle: @gregpincus Maybe I just always had my writer brain on, even as a little ‘un :o ) #kidlitchat
2:40 am DDHearn: I was also influenced by Yellow Submarine. That one really got to me. I think it was the fantasy. Discovered Tolkien later. #kidlitchat
2:40 am adamselzer: @susanjsteward Pinkwater wrote one with the line “There were a lot of sandals in evidence.” Loved that. #kidlitchat
2:40 am peg366: I was a Phyllis Whitney and Victoria Stewart fan. #kidlitchat
2:40 am TracyClark_TLC: I am now inspired by writers who ‘misbehave’. Who are fearless and push boundaries. #kidlitchat
2:41 am JohansenNewman: @KidsTwit He ate them because they were pretty. Don’t you love pretty food? #kidlitchat
2:41 am 1truesentence: when I was like 10 I carried around the Bard’s complete works to “read.” Yup, intellectual snobbery at 10. #kidlitchat
2:41 am dosankodebbie: @shikokusue I know lots of kids who are into cooking. And all kids love eating! #kidlitchat
2:41 am jemifraser: @pussreboots Lucky you!! How awesome that would have been! #kidlitchat
2:41 am dawnmetcalf: @TracyClark_TLC Oh, ouch. #kidlitchat
2:41 am RebeccAgent: are we talking teachers that inspired. If anyone can find Mrs. Barber taught 4th gr @ Tripp Middle School in Buffalo Grove, IL #kidlitchat
2:41 am dorothiar: Time to go read books to a little one. Smiling and thinking of all the inspiring books to read..and those yet to be written.Nite #kidlitchat
2:41 am SusanUhlig: Gotta read Wilson Rawls Summer of the Monkeys – not sad like Where the Red Fern Grows #kidlitchat
2:41 am tinahoggatt: Isn’t the great thing how the language reached out and carried you along? The idea of different voices was so powerful to me. #kidlitchat
2:41 am lisabrowndraws: Book that you can’t get out of your head? And then I have to go. #kidlitchat.
2:41 am heatherwpetty: @lisabrowndraws Me too! ahahaha! #kidlitchat
2:41 am RebeccAgent: BIG BROWNIE POINTS #kidlitchat
2:41 am 2KoP: Hated Johnny Tremain and anything teachers “made” me read. I liked discovering my own books. #kidlitchat
2:42 am SusanUhlig: I was into Phyllis Whitney and Mary Stewart as an early teen. Wrote both and “gasp” got letters back! #kidlitchat
2:42 am marcie8: I <3 the green eggs & ham cookbook @dosankodebbie Good idea! Maybe we should write some fun books for kids with recipes! #kidlitchat
2:42 am crcook: @MardouLedger Little Women still makes me sigh. It’s on my “deserted island” list :) #kidlitchat
2:42 am 1truesentence: @amyknichols oh man, every time I see hounds I think of that book! #kidlitchat
2:42 am jimhill: LOL RT @hollycupala I thought I wanted to write the Great American Novel until I read The Stinky Cheese Man. #kidlitchat
2:42 am SuePinto: @SheviStories Maybe but we disected them to death in school. #kidlitchat
2:42 am KidsTwit: @JohansenNewman too funny! I with tonight’s spaghetti was so colorful LOL I’m so going to have to find that story and frame it. #kidlitchat
2:42 am MardouLedger: Also, I can’t be the only person in this chat who loved Flowers in the Attic and V.C. Andrews. #kidlitchat
2:42 am hollycupala: The Odyssey in 5th grade – didn’t realize it was literature until later! #kidlitchat
2:42 am DDHearn: @2KoP I couldn’t get into Babar because of the script. And the cover of A Wrinkle in Time was so bad I wouldn’t read the book. #kidlitchat
2:42 am bonnieadamson: @susanjsteward oh, fascinating question. Don’t remember phrase, but description of Heidi’s first meal w/Grandfather. #kidlitchat
2:42 am aimeebartis: @2KoP ditto for The Yearling #kidlitchat
2:42 am WriterRoss: @MardouLedger I DIED when Amy tossed Jo’s mss into the fire. DIED. #kidlitchat
2:42 am jamieweil: @shikokusue Like Thundercake by Patricia Pollaco. #kidlitchat
2:42 am peg366: Old Yeller and the Yearly #kidlitchat
2:42 am dawnmetcalf: @1truesentence I’m with you. I wrote my first full-length novel: 365 pages and about that many characters. I was 11. *headdesk* #kidlitchat
2:42 am amyknichols: @SusanUhlig Thanks for the recommendation. :) #kidlitchat
2:42 am dosankodebbie: Although I tried not to show it, it broke my heart when my kids didn’t LOVE the same books I loved as a child. #kidlitchat
2:42 am RindaElliott: LOL! I was obsessed w/Wuthering Heights. And I have to admit it was Pat Benatar’s fault. #kidlitchat
2:43 am hollycupala: Book I can’t get out of my head: The Neverending Story, by Michael Ende. #kidlitchat
2:43 am lisabrowndraws: Mine is The Lonely Doll. Check out my review here: http://bit.ly/cx7MWX. #kidlitchat.
2:43 am vvjonez: Reading over this list is bringing back wonderful reading memories – appropriate for today. #kidlitchat
2:43 am crcook: @amyknichols My 12 year old is supposed to be reading Red Fern now for 7th grade English. He can finish it #kidlitchat
2:43 am paulgreci: @PaulWHankins I also taught English for 15 years, grades 9-12 mostly, at risk teens. #kidlitchat That was great preparation for writing.
2:43 am marcie8: I loved Whitney too. So sad her last few books were all the same @peg366: I was a Phyllis Whitney and Victoria Stewart fan. #kidlitchat
2:43 am dawnmetcalf: @lisabrowndraws Bridge to Terabithia. #kidlitchat
2:43 am shikokusue: @dosankodebbie Also, recipes in back of Holly Thompson’s pb The Wakame Gatherers #kidlitchat
2:43 am susanjsteward: @adamselzer Both of our favorite lines were about shoes. Hmmm. #kidlitchat
2:43 am jlpowers: Hey, what’s tonight’s question? #kidlitchat
2:44 am JessicaLeader: My 9th gr English tchr came to my wedding last yr! @TracyClark_TLC oh yes, I read those Flrs in Attic…great lit, no? (shudder) #kidlitchat
2:44 am KindrilyKaren: @RebeccAgent I had a favorite Mrs. Barber too! 6th grade @ Perry Hall Middle in Baltimore. I’m guessing not the same but hmm. #kidlitchat
2:44 am ninaberry: Movies that inspired: the complexity and dialogue in Network. The villainous child catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Ah, youth! #kidlitchat
2:44 am MardouLedger: @dosankodebbie I am preparing for that already. :( My daughter loves to read, but I’m sure she won’t love EVERYTHING. #kidlitchat
2:44 am emilytastic: RT @karianneholt: @Shelltex My 10th grade english teacher failed me for being “too creative and impressionistic” I KNOW I write to spite her! #kidlitchat
2:44 am GinaRitter: @amyknichols Thankfully I got out of reading Where the Red Fern Grows because it would stick to my soul forever. I can’t hack it #kidlitchat
2:44 am crcook: @MardouLedger FLowers in the Attic was the first book I hid from my mother. Had a crush on Chris, of course! #kidlitchat
2:44 am dawnmetcalf: @paulgreci Wow. *doffs hat to you* That’s a life-changer for all. #kidlitchat
2:44 am Shelltex: @karianneholt Too creative, huh? You gotta love that! #kidlitchat
2:44 am ImSarahEnni: @hollycupala Does it count that the movie is in my all-time faves? Read The Princess Bride and didn’t enjoy as much as the film #kidlitchat
2:45 am happybluejess: @RindaElliott Pat Benetar! That is hilarious. “So co-o-o-old ? let me in your windo-o-o!” #kidlitchat
2:45 am bonnieadamson: @jlpowers TOPIC: Who are the authors/illustrators whose work most inspired you to get into this crazy business? #kidlitchat
2:45 am shikokusue: @MardouLedger I devoured Flowers in the Attic, etc. as a kid. #kidlitchat
2:45 am paulgreci: @RindaElliott I still love Wuthering Heights, since HS. Amazing that someone so isolated and young could write that story #kidlitchat
2:45 am 1truesentence: @MardouLedger oh I read VC andrews for sure! My Sweet Audrina was my personal fave & now whenever I see Hills ads I think of it #kidlitchat
2:45 am dawnbonnevie: #kidlitchat I can’t remember the exact phrase, but the feeling behind sound of Pa’s fiddle in Little House “for it made a lovely sound”?
2:45 am dosankodebbie: Cool. Have heard the title, but never read it. RT @shikokusue:Also, recipes in back of Holly Thompson’s pb The Wakame Gatherers #kidlitchat
2:45 am Brent_Watson41: I was basically reading Milton with one eye closed at, like, 7. Yeah, I’m pretty much a genius. Don’t hate. #kidlitchat
2:45 am dawnmetcalf: @GinaRitter @amyknichols Where the Red Fern Grows: I cried & cried. #kidlitchat
2:45 am aimeebartis: good night all! great chat #kidlitchat
2:45 am MardouLedger: @crcook It’s time for a reread of Little Women, I think. #kidlitchat
2:45 am lisabrowndraws: Bye, all. Kid out of bath and ready for books. #kidlitchat.
2:45 am amyknichols: @GinaRitter It does stick in your soul. But that’s the sign of a good and timeless book! #kidlitchat
2:46 am justwonderinY: Teaching friends, check out archives of #kidlitchat tomorrow http://bit.ly/10ndtk. Writers discuss influence of reading. Wow!
2:46 am amyknichols: @crcook See… I think my 6yo is a bit young and tenderhearted. Maybe we’ll read it together. Then we can cry together, too. ;) #kidlitchat
2:46 am susanjsteward: @bonnieadamson That Heidi bit really affected me, too. Had a much greater appreciation of bread & cheese! Used to act it out. #kidlitchat
2:46 am shikokusue: @marcie8 Loved reading my mom’s Whitney & Stewart books. Tried writing similiar romances as a kid. #kidlitchat
2:46 am dawnmetcalf: @ImSarahEnni @hollycupala Oh no! I *loved* The Princess Bride (the story itself, not the squicky author asides). #kidlitchat
2:46 am jessicatudor: My 6th gr teacher scolded me for not citing author of poem I used in proj – I had written it. 1st time I thought I could write #kidlitchat
2:46 am JohansenNewman: @bonnieadamson Yes! I still see that image in my head from the Heidi book! #kidlitchat
2:46 am SusanUhlig: First book I remember reading that freaked me out was The Haunting of Hill House #kidlitchat
2:46 am ninaberry: My dad was an English teacher. He was (and is) a huge role model/inspiration. To me and to many of his students, they tell me. #kidlitchat
2:46 am PaulWHankins: @paulgreci I think you’d like http://rawinck.ning.com. I built this Ning with my 11th graders. Last night we hosted Super Chat. #kidlitchat
2:47 am crcook: @amyknichols lol! That works! BIg sob fest with kleenex. Then we’ll read Old Yeller #kidlitchat
2:47 am karianneholt: Just thought of another one, when I was a senior in hs, I really enjoyed Canterbury Tales, despite the forced memorization #kidlitchat
2:47 am TracyClark_TLC: I think I was forever altered by The Book Thief. #kidlitchat
2:47 am amyknichols: @paulgreci Same here. Wuthering Heights will always be one of my favorite books. #kidlitchat
2:47 am MardouLedger: @crcook Is it wrong that I fantasized about living like them? They had so much imaginative fun, until the (spoiler) incest. LOL #kidlitchat
2:47 am crcook: must run and get kiddos into bed. Sorry to miss a great #kidlitchat again. NIght all!
2:47 am PaulWHankins: RT @justwonderinY: Teaching friends, check out archives of #kidlitchat tomorrow http://bit.ly/10ndtk. Writers discuss influence of reading. Wow!
2:47 am dosankodebbie: @MardouLedger alas, I wasn’t prepared. I would have laughed at the thought. #kidlitchat
2:47 am dawnmetcalf: I still turn how I feel about THE GIVING TREE over and over in my mind. Is this a good message/book or isn’t it…? #kidlitchat
2:47 am paulgreci: @dawnmetcalf We wrote extra scenes to RumbleFish in my classroom. In many ways my students inspired me to write. #kidlitchat
2:47 am 1truesentence: @TracyClark_TLC DITTO! #kidlitchat
2:48 am MardouLedger: @WriterRoss Oh Amy. *shakes head*. Plus, she was all “talent isn’t genius, so I won’t paint anymore.” Broke my heart! #kidlitchat
2:48 am jessicaleeander: boo, having problems with tweetchat #kidlitchat
2:48 am 2KoP: Ugh. Tweetchat failure. #kidlitchat
2:48 am amyknichols: In HS I got all dark, read Hamlet and Camus and Sartre and wrote depressing poetry, LOL! #kidlitchat
2:48 am marybrebner: @dawnmetcalf Book called No More Dead Dogs-really cute-in response to those dead dogs! (Red Fern, Yeller, etc traumatized me) #kidlitchat
2:48 am KindrilyKaren: Fav teacher of all time: Mrs. Geczy. Creative Writing 1 &2 and Lit Mag. Changed my life and still hoping to impress her one day #kidlitchat
2:48 am PaulWHankins: RT @paulgreci: @dawnmetcalf We wrote extra scenes to RumbleFish in my classroom. In many ways my students inspired me to write. #kidlitchat
2:48 am pussreboots: @jemifraser Here’s a post I wrote about her: http://bit.ly/cejgPY #kidlitchat (includes a photo of Ms Vreeland from the yearbook)
2:48 am jlpowers: @BonnieAdamson Thanks. #kidlitchat
2:48 am Brent_Watson41: @dawnmetcalf Oh my gosh! One of the best. #kidlitchat
2:48 am dawnmetcalf: @paulgreci That’s just plain awesome. #kidlitchat
2:48 am bonnieadamson: @susanjsteward @JohansenNewman First time I remember wanting to BE a character–so cozy. #kidlitchat
2:48 am ImSarahEnni: @dawnmetcalf SUCH a classic, talk about waterworks! will read that and “Oh The Places You’ll Go” to my kids til the spines break #kidlitchat
2:48 am amyknichols: @TracyClark_TLC I was, too. Incredible book. I tell everyone I know to read it. #kidlitchat
2:48 am Brent_Watson41: @aimeebartis see ya #kidlitchat
2:49 am jlpowers: Madeleine L’Engle, L.M. Montgomery, and Katherine Paterson are probably the top choices for me. But there are too many to list…#kidlitchat
2:49 am amyknichols: @crcook Oh man. Old Yeller. Nevermind! I can’t do it! *sobs* #kidlitchat
2:49 am dawnmetcalf: @marybrebner I should check that out! Thanks! #kidlitchat
2:49 am paulgreci: @PaulWHankins Thanks, I’ll check it out. I’m always looking for ways to connect w/teens now that I am not in the classroom. #kidlitchat
2:49 am gregpincus: @karianneholt The fact that I can still type Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote… from memory is just odd #kidlitchat
2:49 am amyknichols: I tried to read Woodson’s Show Way the other night to my 6yo and cried my eyes out. #kidlitchat
2:49 am SheviStories: Just realized something: here I am talking about Snoopy and Charles Schulz inspiring me & I have a typing dog for an avatar. #kidlitchat
2:49 am jemifraser: @pussreboots Thanks for the link! I’ll check it out :) #kidlitchat
2:50 am justwonderinY: Have to do progress reports. Thanks #kidlitchat for the inspiration for tomorrow’s reader’s/writer’s workshops with my little authors!
2:50 am karianneholt: In the 9th grade, Ms. Burroughs read Romeo and Juliet to us, with animated voices for all the characters. Love. #kidlitchat
2:50 am dawnmetcalf: @Brent_Watson41 @ImSarahEnni @happybluejess Makes me cry NOW. Wonder if selflessness=love is something I want 4 my kids. #kidlitchat
2:50 am DDHearn: RT @dosankodebbie: Although I tried not to show it, it broke my heart when my kids didn’t LOVE the same books I loved as a child. #kidlitchat
2:50 am paulgreci: @dawnmetcalf I was looking for ways to engage kids in writing who hated to write, starting w/already developed characters worked #kidlitchat
2:50 am pussreboots: @laurielyoung @WriterRoss blogged about Baby Island too back in 2007: http://bit.ly/bhEgrP #kidlitchat
2:50 am Brent_Watson41: @ImSarahEnni There is some book by Karen Kingsbury?? about all the lasts a child will have. OMG. I refuse to read it again #kidlitchat
2:51 am karianneholt: @gregpincus I KNOW! It is like olde english brain superglue. #kidlitchat
2:51 am shikokusue: @amyknichols Didn’t we all do that?:-) #kidlitchat
2:51 am PaulWHankins: RT @justwonderinY: Have to do progress reports. Thanks #kidlitchat for the inspiration for tomorrow’s reader’s/writer’s workshops with my little authors!
2:51 am JohansenNewman: @bonnieadamson Yes! And in my book, her feet were bare. I can still see her on the moutain with bare feet. #kidlitchat
2:51 am SusanUhlig: @shevistories – I always loved Snoopy and his typewriter! #kidlitchat
2:51 am bonnieadamson: @SheviStories Hahaha–had you really not made the connection before now? That’s great. #kidlitchat
2:51 am happybluejess: @dawnmetcalf I totally agree. Very bittersweet message. I also wonder about it being a female tree and a boy… #kidlitchat
2:51 am JessicaLeader: @marybrebner Your kids did NaNo? You and they are so cool! how did they follow up? (submitting? revising?) #kidlitchat
2:51 am ninaberry: I was sick w/grief. Sick! RT@amyknichols: @crcook Oh man. Old Yeller. Nevermind! I cant do it! *sobs* #kidlitchat
2:51 am carolgrannick: Great topic tonight @gregpincus @bonnieadamson…Time for me to go re-read one of my inspirations…#kidlitchat
2:51 am WriterRoss: I cannot believe I have not brought this up yet. The writer that made me think: Oh. Writer. For life. Me? CATHERINE WOOLEY. #kidlitchat
2:51 am MardouLedger: Oh, and I have to mention two series I routinely re-read: The SHOES books by Noel Streitfeld and the ANNE books by LM Montgomery #kidlitchat
2:52 am ImSarahEnni: @Brent_Watson41 Oh man! Amazing that such small books can have such crazy power. #kidlitchat
2:52 am TracyClark_TLC: @dawnmetcalf Good qustion. At first, it seems like the ultimate in unconditional love. But could also look like unhealthy giving #kidlitchat
2:52 am WriterRoss: @pussreboots Favorited to find BABY ISLAND link later. #kidlitchat
2:52 am happybluejess: Oh, almost forgot TUCK EVERLASTING. Also made me cry. #kidlitchat
2:53 am JessicaLeader: In other news, I finally have a countdown widget for my book on the blog. G’night, all! #kidlitchat #kidlitchatmulti-task :)
2:53 am PaulWHankins: RT @JessicaLeader: In other news, I finally have a countdown widget for my book on the blog. G’night, all! #kidlitchat #kidlitchatmulti-task :)
2:53 am bonnieadamson: @JohansenNewman Started to say I need to re-read, but think I’d rather keep it as a memory! #kidlitchat
2:53 am LM_Preston: @JessicaLeader Wow, I’m trying to get my kid to enter a writing contest #kidlitchat
2:53 am karianneholt: Thanks for letting me jump in & out of chat. Gotsta go rewrite like 38,000 words now. (and then read canterbury tales again) #kidlitchat
2:54 am Brent_Watson41: All right, I guess tweetchat is kicking me out. Something’s messed up. See ya, guys. #kidlitchat
2:54 am 2KoP: RT @SusanUhlig: @shevistories – I always loved Snoopy and his typewriter! #kidlitchat
2:54 am tinahoggatt: Twitter not cooperating. Thanks for this reverie and conversation. Kidlit folk are – as mom would say – “good people”. #kidlitchat
2:54 am dawnmetcalf: RT @TracyClark_TLC @dawnmetcalf Good Q. At first, seems like the ultimate unconditional love. But could also be unhealthy giving #kidlitchat
2:54 am jimhill: So who else has an expanded reading (and re-reading) list after tonight? #kidlitchat
2:54 am ImSarahEnni: Huge moment was interviewing Lois Lowry a couple years ago. The Giver changed my reading life #kidlitchat
2:54 am LM_Preston: @susanuhlig I love snoopy too. I have all Charlie Brown’s flicks #kidlitchat
2:54 am paulgreci: @happybluejess I think I’ve lost count how many times I read Tuck Everlasting. So good. Ables Island by Steig was another. #kidlitchat
2:56 am laurielyoung: I just got kicked off Tweetchat, so I am back using tweetgrid. weird. #kidlitchat
2:57 am dawnmetcalf: Me too! RT @jemifraser Me!! :) RT @jimhill: So who else has an expanded reading (and re-reading) list after tonight? #kidlitchat
2:57 am bonnieadamson: @JohansenNewman Oh, gosh–have they “modernized” it? :-( #kidlitchat
2:57 am JohansenNewman: @dawnmetcalf I had a huge crush on Peter Pan. #kidlitchat
2:57 am PaulWHankins: Thank you from a grateful teacher, authors and illustrators. Really. What you do makes it easier to do what I do. #kidlitchat
2:57 am DDHearn: @Brent_Watson41 Tweetchat kicked me out ten minutes ago, and I’m trying to follow on twitter. Just now remembering to type #kidlitchat
2:58 am ImSarahEnni: @dawnmetcalf Thanks for the rec! I will definitely check that out! #kidlitchat
2:58 am WriterRoss: Tweetchat is killing me right now. Posting from good ol’ Twitter page adding hashtags. #kidlitchat
2:58 am 2KoP: Sorry #kidlitchat. technical difficulties. If you’re interested in talking about character names, see my new post. http://tiny.cc/names411
2:58 am JohansenNewman: @bonnieadamson You know, I don’t know. I guess I assumed they had a new version out, like Pippy LS. #kidlitchat
2:58 am MardouLedger: @WriterRoss Are Lee Wyndham’s ballet books like BALLET SHOES? Because I loved that book. #kidlitchat
2:58 am dawnmetcalf: @adamselzer That beats my kissing my inner elbow as a kid and pretending. #kidlitchat
2:58 am DDHearn: @jimhill I’m amazed by how many books we all have in common. But nobody else has read Loretta Mason Potts? #kidlitchat
2:58 am jemifraser: Wow! I read The Giver in class every year RT @ImSarahEnni: Huge moment-interviewing Lois Lowry The Giver changed my rding life #kidlitchat
2:59 am paulgreci: Thanks all, for a great chat. @BonnieAdamson @gregpincus #kidlitchat
2:59 am gregpincus: #kidlitchat – for those having tweetchat difficulties, tweetgrid is fine: http://tweetgrid.com/search?q=%23kidlitchat
2:59 am 2KoP: @jimhill It was a dark and stormy night. I actually have a typewriter just like Snoopy’s. #kidlitchat
2:59 am JohansenNewman: @WriterRoss Yes, Tweetchat appears to be stuck. #kidlitchat
2:59 am bonnieadamson: @JohansenNewman I bet they have. I still have my mother’s copy, I believe. #kidlitchat
2:59 am benkummer: LOL! RT @Brent_Watson41: I was basically reading Milton with one eye closed at 7. Yeah, I’m pretty much a genius. Don’t hate. #kidlitchat
3:00 am 2KoP: RT @laurielyoung: Perfect! RT @hollycupala: I thought I wanted to write the Great American Novel until I read The Stinky Cheese Man. #kidlitchat
3:00 am jimhill: @JohansenNewman @dawnmetcalf I think that Peter Pan’s a bad ass. Flight, sword play, pretty gf, mermaids and an arch-nemesis #kidlitchat
3:00 am DDHearn: @WriterRoss Actually, it isn’t so hard following on twitter. #kidlitchat
3:00 am WriterRoss: @MardouLedger Yes. Wyndham wrote about SUSIE a ballet student. Great books. #kidlitchat
3:00 am RindaElliott: This trip down memory lane was fun. Thanks for the chat! #kidlitchat
3:00 am KidsTwit: Thanks for a great inaugural kidlitchat for me! #kidlitchat
3:00 am jemifraser: Gotta go – thanks to @bonnieadamson @gregpincus & everyone else for a great chat! Awesome topic & conversation :) #kidlitchat
3:01 am TracyClark_TLC: I was not read to as a child. My favorite discoveries have been through having kids of my own. Different with adult eyes? #kidlitchat
3:01 am JohansenNewman: @jimhill Guess I always liked Bad Bays–in theory anyway.;-) #kidlitchat
3:01 am bonnieadamson: Ducking out early. Thanks for the memories. My head is full of Postman Pig, Heidi and Pippi Longstocking. What a happy place! #kidlitchat
3:01 am 2KoP: I’m searching for #kidlitchat live on TweetGrid Search – http://tweetgrid.com/search?q=%23kidlitchat
3:01 am RindaElliott: @happybluejess The song will stay in your head. I still have the vinyl. ;) #kidlitchat
3:01 am 2KoP: @gregpincus Thanks. Like this better than Tweetchat. #kidlitchat
3:02 am WriterRoss: I’m searching for #kidlitchat live on TweetGrid Search – http://tweetgrid.com/search?q=%23kidlitchat
3:02 am SheviStories: No. Pathetic, right? RT @bonnieadamson: @SheviStories Hahaha–had you really not made the connection before now? #kidlitchat
3:02 am AudryT: Tweetchat seems dead. Also, not seeing #kidlitchat hashtag being used by anyone. Huhn.
3:02 am JohansenNewman: @bonnieadamson Night! #kidlitchat
3:02 am pussreboots: @TracyClark_TLC I remember being read the Hobbit as a child. I had an illustrated copy from the film version. Still have it. #kidlitchat
3:02 am dawnmetcalf: @jimhill @JohansenNewman I think it was a boyish daring and confidence, mischievously wry and naughty and clever that did me in. #kidlitchat
3:02 am WriterRoss: @bonnieadamson Does anyone remember Astrid Lindgren’s MILO, MY SON? #kidlitchat
3:03 am JohansenNewman: Oops,I meant Bad BOYS. #kidlitchat
3:03 am 2KoP: Have you Peter Pan fans read the prequels by Dave Barry? #kidlitchat
3:03 am bonnieadamson: @SheviStories Hee. You’ll have to add “It was a dark and stormy night” thought bubble now. :-) #kidlitchat
3:03 am MardouLedger: Thanks to #kidlitchat for reminding me of all of the books I loved as a child, and how much I want mine to join their ranks!
3:03 am DDHearn: I must go. Promised hubby I’d get off by ten, so I won’t wake him up when I go upstairs to bed. Night, everyone. #kidlitchat
3:03 am laurielyoung: My time is up?what a great topic tonight! I am rushing to Amazon right now . . . Thanks Greg and Bonnie! Goodnight all! #kidlitchat
3:03 am WriterRoss: This Tweet Grid format looks nice. Thanks @gregpincus You are so socially ahead of the times! #kidlitchat
3:04 am temoca: @TracyClark_TLC Flowers in the Attic was my first series too! My parents didn’t monitor my reading, they just loved that I read! #kidlitchat
3:04 am jimhill: @dawnmetcalf And that’s why he’s my role model. #kidlitchat
3:04 am pussreboots: @jemifraser She was a fun teacher. She also taught ceramics. #kidlitchat
3:04 am dawnmetcalf: @2KoP Read STARCATCHERS. Eh. #kidlitchat
3:04 am dawnmetcalf: @jimhill See? I *knew* I liked you! LOL! #kidlitchat
3:04 am KarlaKT: Totally in my happy place.LOVE these books. Just thought of Shiloh #kidlitchat
3:04 am 2KoP: RT @temoca: @TracyClark_TLC My parents didn’t monitor my reading, they just loved that I read! #kidlitchat
3:05 am happybluejess: Goodnight, all. Thanks for the memories. (And Pat Benetar stuck in my head!) #kidlitchat
3:05 am pussreboots: @temoca My parents didn’t monitor my reading either. In fact my mom shared her romances w/ me and dad shared his Clive Cusslers! #kidlitchat
3:05 am JohansenNewman: @dawnmetcalf You bectha.I thought for sure he would come and visit me and take me to Neverland. #kidlitchat
3:05 am 2KoP: @dawnmetcalf I agree about STarcatchers, but it was great to listen to; narrated by Jim Dial (Harry Potter tapes) #kidlitchat
3:05 am dawnmetcalf: Thanks again to @gregpincus & @bonnieadamson for a beautifully nostalgic and inspiring #kidlitchat !
3:05 am WriterRoss: I meant Astrid Lindgren’s MIO, MY SON.. My typo, forgive me. That was a book that haunted me as a child. #kidlitchat
3:06 am SheviStories: Parents didn’t read to me, but I had something that did: it was called PBS. It read The Snowy Day, Make Way for Ducklings… #kidlitchat
3:06 am temoca: @TracyClark_TLC Some of my best memories are of dad reading to us before bed. I kept it going with my kids. It’s a love. #kidlitchat
3:06 am dawnmetcalf: @2KoP Jim Dial could read a bus schedule and I’d listen with rapt attention. #kidlitchat
3:06 am gregpincus: I’m off, folks. Need to dig up my copy of Furman Bisher’ Strange but True Baseball Stories for full nostalgia! #kidlitchat
3:07 am 2KoP: @SheviStories There was a very old TV show called the Friendly Giant that read books on TV, too. #kidlitchat
3:07 am jemifraser: @pussreboots You had ceramics in high school?- so cool! Nice to hear good stories about famous writers :) #kidlitchat
3:08 am 2KoP: @dawnmetcalf That Jim Dial does have a great voice. I want him for my book (once it’s published, of course). #kidlitchat
3:08 am davidhburton: Well, guess I won’t find the answer to my mystery children’s novel tonight. G’night all! #kidlitchat
3:08 am happybluejess: @2KoP Okay, still here. And I loved The Friendly Giant! #kidlitchat
3:08 am JohansenNewman: @gregpincus Good night! I’ll be looking for Heidi and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn! #kidlitchat
3:08 am WriterRoss: Leaving here more inspired than ever. Look at the amnt of books and authors that moved us to this moment! That’s what I want. #kidlitchat

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