I have a few kind people who will post reviews this Friday, but if you'd like to do one too just let me know (aa2579@wayne.edu).
Since the next week is Fourth of July, I wonder if rather than the usual format, we might go with recommending forgotten books for kids and YAs with just a line or two on when you first read it or why you liked it. If you're going to post a kid's book on the fourth, let me know. Or if you'd like to post one here, email it to me. We'll keep it real simple. If some of you with blogs could announce this, maybe we can come up with a nice list. Anyone remember Cherry Ames?
On the 11th we'll return to our usual fare. Don't wait for me to come to you if you're reading this because I probably have already tried to recruit you and the email didn't go through.
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I didn't know Cherry Ames till looking at my lesbian housemate's NANCY CLUE parody novels, which included a parody of CA from pretty early on.
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Cherry Ames was the beautiful redhead from The Outsiders, wasn't she?
I must have read that book 25 times when I was a kid!
Cherry Ames was apparently a plucky young nurse, who was the heroine of a Nancy Drew-like series.
Though if S. E. Hinton had a little joke, I'll believe it...
Indeed i remember Cherry Ames, everything nurse. I don't remember a thing about her, but remember devouring the books. Probably the same years at my Trixie Belden years (I er, um, really dislike(d) Nancy Drew whose dated prose and formula books bored me very early on )
FYI, there is a Cherry Ames web page. I know this from my work on Mysterious Home Page, where we try to list websites of all interest areas, including character pages.
Who wouldn't want to read Cherry Ames, Dude Ranch Nurse or Cherry Ames, Department Store Nurse?
i vaguely recall another series but cannot recall the character's name. But the author of CA is also responsible, under a pseudonym for a bunch of "career" novels, for which you just gotta love her. i mean come on, she also gave us Patti Lewis, Home Economist.
Well, Andi, the Cherry Ames entry in WIKIPEDIA begins with:
Cherry Ames is a popular novel series for girls published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1943 to 1968. Helen Wells (1910-1986) wrote volumes #1-7 and 17-27, and Julie Campbell Tatham (1908-1999), the creator of Trixie Belden, wrote volumes #8-16. Wells also created the Vicki Barr series.
--might you be thinking of the VICKI BARR series?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Ames
Ha, Lisa! My Cherry Ames was a nurse in a series of books written in the 1950s. They may well have used her name again as Todd suggests. The Outsiders was my kids' favorite book.
Excuse me while I go and look at the Cherry Ames page. Maybe someone else will tell me what happened to Betsy, Tacy and Tib. I loved Trixie too.
I'll do a forgotten YA for July fourth on my blog. And I'll link to here.
I think I read every Cherry Ames book. My sister, a few years ago, wanted to start collecting them. Way tough. Lots of people are doing that.
My entry, for Ester Wier's THE LONER, is up and might even be coherent.
Patti,
Ah, a challenge. I'll have to decide on a children's or YA book for the 4th. But, I'll do one. Thanks! And, I'll mention it on my blog.
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