Comments on: Challenge Update: The Hobbit and Bridge to Terabithia

By: rhi

rhi — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:58:40 +0000

Ooo I just read Bridge to Terabithia for my Children Lit class. I loved it!!! We are trying to come up with a list as to why it is challenged. A couple ideas we came up with were the death of leslie and how traumatizing death can be for children. Another was the idea that a boy and a girl were “going off into the woods together.” Another might be the switched gender roles of Jess and Leslie. Leslie was the stronger one and Jess more shy.

I LOOOOOVE The Giver, it is one of my favorites, i would suggest reading that soon. afterward, i can share some ideas as to why it is challenged with you. Its an easy read, but thought-provoking all the same.

By: Christine

Christine — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:58:34 +0000

Osbert — I don’t know that the challenge is Girls Only; it’s just inspired by The Daring Book for Girls. That book might have restrictions on it, but I’ve never read it and so cannot tell you. I say go for it — you can even read some freakin’ mythology. (Although I have to say: Proust is also delicious).

Mom — well, you know, somewhere Statesward… I thought that New England has clams. Clam chowdah? Something?

Glum — I’d say so. It’s good and it’s quick.

By: glumpuddle

glumpuddle — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:42:10 +0000

Bridge is on my TBR pile over there. Should it pop to the top?

By: Alice

Alice — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:49:50 +0000

I saw Misty (the real horse, I mean) on a childhood trip to Virginia (not New England!). I think I read the whole series later, but Misty of Chincoteague always was special for me.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:38:58 +0000

Lol Bilbo does get hit on the head a lot now that I think about it Still a great story.

By: Osbert Parsley

Osbert Parsley — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:14:03 +0000

I would completely be up for a challenge like this, except this one is explicitly designed for Girls Only. Even though the contents (Tolkien? Asimov? Robinson Crusoe? Treasure Island? Bullfinch’s freakin’ Mythology?) are, in my opinion, gender-neutral.

Until males are finally extended the right to participate fully in blog book-reading challenges as equal human beings, I will just have to set myself arbitrary reading challenges once I finish the books on my list at the moment. I’m thinking Proust.