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Tracey farking beaker - what IS hte fuss about?

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coddy · 23/07/2007 20:08

higely inferior to the magnificent Clarice Bean www.amazon.co.uk/Clarice-Bean-Thats-Lauren-Child/dp/184121583X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/203-1293981-14 19128?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185217686&sr=8-1]
ds1 has read it wiht me reading hte odd chpter
dull dull irritating style

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Blandmum · 24/07/2007 09:20

never banned them. Just told dd I found them too depressing and she could read them to herself

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coddy · 24/07/2007 09:20

lol

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coddy · 24/07/2007 09:20

but uncle q was workign ont eh mnahttan prject fgs it sobv when you read it

i am in my pjs having had 4 hours sleep

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pointydog · 24/07/2007 09:20

dd2 also said 'I am a big fan of the social realism genre so JW ticks all teh boxes'

no, she didn't. But she does generally love social realism type of books.

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coddy · 24/07/2007 09:19

can callmemoll
that makes me roar

and the organic cafe

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Blandmum · 24/07/2007 09:19

They all seem to centre round kids with social problems. Realise this is also true of FamousFive etc all, Aunty Fanny ob had a screw loose letting them bugger off in a caravan to scrounge hard boiled eggs from the rural poor.

Als realise that kids in care need regonition etc. Just didn't particularly want to read about it as nauseam to my 7 year olds

EffiePerine · 24/07/2007 09:19

LC is middle-class and very irritating.

ahundredtimes · 24/07/2007 09:18

It's that Ruby Redfort and her swanky house with the upstairs kitchen.

Cod can't fight my ds1. She'll break his glasses and we'll all cry.

That Suitcase one is so traumatic. I read it one afternoon, I couldn't cope at all.

EffiePerine · 24/07/2007 09:18

What is this with hating JW? Local primary school ahs banned TB books which I thought pretty shocking. Have friends who work in children's literacy and all think TB good thing: kid likes book, kid reads book (hurrah!). Suppose school/parents disapproving of book is a bonus...

DH keen on things like Melvin Burgess which raised a huge stink a few years ago.

pointydog · 24/07/2007 09:18

i've fallen behind with the threads

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coddy · 24/07/2007 09:17

ds2s teacher( male about 28)_ thinks lauren child is teeibely middle class and annoying and he hates it
iwas at him and told him he wa a very norty boy

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pointydog · 24/07/2007 09:17

clarice bean is very ingerlish, no?

MaloryTowers · 24/07/2007 09:16

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pointydog · 24/07/2007 09:16

I've only read one JW, mb, so can't really comment but a lot of the poignancy seems to go right over small kids' heads. I thought that with dd2 at least

Turquoise · 24/07/2007 09:16

JW is the only thing that got my dd (9) reading for pleasure, so I don't care how crap it is.
I think it appeals to the emotionally incontinent side of drama queeny girls though - after reading it, dd (reekingly middle class and cosseted) asked me "Mummy, do I have a social worker?". Was a bit miffed to discover she didn't.
JW did really help her get through my breakup with her father though, and all the crappy love/hate intense best friendship stuff that girls seem to go through at this age.

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coddy · 24/07/2007 09:16

i liek the cliffhanger one abotu eh adventure cmap very funny

you are aright MT sh e lives in london btu it does haev an americna air about it

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Blandmum · 24/07/2007 09:15

read them to her! sheesh!

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coddy · 24/07/2007 09:15

lol at spike

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pointydog · 24/07/2007 09:15

oo well written

100'sds1 and cod - FIGHT

Blandmum · 24/07/2007 09:12

Really don't enjoy her books at all.

dd went through a phase of liking them, and wanted me to read them too her. I found them to bloody miserable for words, sort of Angela's Ashes for kiddies.

If I wanted to be that miserable, I'd go sit on a spike and live in the shed.

In the end I told her that I wouldn't read them, and if she was that interested she'd have to read them to helpself

ahundredtimes · 24/07/2007 09:12

OK this is DS1's critical assessment: 'Because they're very well written and they have good stories and it's very touching and stuff.'

pointydog · 24/07/2007 09:10

har

she's 8. I did think 'oh that looks pompous when it's written down' but it didn't sound it when she said it. honest!

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coddy · 24/07/2007 08:55

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NadineBaggott · 24/07/2007 08:54

gosh how old is dd2 pointy?