tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27142965.post5327618959335798759..comments2012-05-26T07:51:09.056-04:00Comments on Bookroll: Childbook Reading, part 3Joshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11467322140216809690noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27142965.post-71746615663619942272012-05-26T07:51:09.056-04:002012-05-26T07:51:09.056-04:00I finally read The Court of the Stone Children las...I finally read <i>The Court of the Stone Children</i> last night and it's definitely not the book I remember, but it struck me as a fairly thoughtful children's book. It would also be quite hard to classify: mystery? ghost story? coming of age? The plot is almost incidental, a way for the author to show the various relationships Nina develops with people in her new home (and a sweet French ghost).Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467322140216809690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27142965.post-45376027074111873962009-05-25T18:10:56.994-04:002009-05-25T18:10:56.994-04:00I've never read or heard of Osprey Island; I'll ha...I've never read or heard of <I>Osprey Island</I>; I'll have to check it out.<br /><br />It's possible I read the Eleanor Cameron one (I did read several of the Mushroom Planet books) but it doesn't sound quite right from the brief summaries I'm finding. I think (but am not quite sure) the stone girl in mine wasn't quite human. The reviews of the Cameron one on Amazon are quite stunning (or perhaps just stunned), though, so I'll try to check that out too.<br /><br />For some reason the stone book is connected in my memory to another book which I think involved ancient libraries, people with telepathy living in caves, and people from space with whom they could communicate via telepathy... only the space-people's was much faster, possibly because it was done by computers? They might only be connected because I read them around the same time.<br /><br />I did just find another book by Cheryl Smith under the name Cher Smith... from PublishAmerica. My guess is anything else she's written will be under yet another name.<br /><br /><I>Night of the Solstice</I> looks extremely likely to be the book I remember, together with the sequel. From what the Amazon reviewers say these aren't really horror, although from what I remember they are fairly dark.Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467322140216809690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27142965.post-4415706048196898142009-05-25T15:07:27.522-04:002009-05-25T15:07:27.522-04:00The People of Pineapple Place by Anne Morrow Lind...<I><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/People-Pineapple-Place-Reissues/dp/0763617393/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243277626&sr=8-1" REL="nofollow">The People of Pineapple Place</A></I> by Anne Morrow Lindberg was one of my little sister's favorite book's as a child (for which I feel some glee, as I gave it to her) My favorite book by this author is actually <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Osprey-Island-Anne-Morrow-Lindbergh/dp/0395194989/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243277725&sr=1-2" REL="nofollow"><I>Osprey Island</I></A>: Carmarogalie retne island forever!<br /><br />The Goosebumps series are by R.L. Stine: Meh.<br /><br />The stone book might by <I><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Court-Stone-Children-Eleanor-Cameron/dp/0140342893/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243277863&sr=1-1" REL="nofollow">Court of the Stone Children</A></I> by Eleanor Cameron.<br /><br /><I>The Falcon and the Serpent</I> is <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Falcon-Serpent-Cheryl-Smith/dp/0891075569/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243277935&sr=1-1" REL="nofollow">listed on Amazon</A>. I can't do this at home, but at work I (or most librarians with WorldCat access) can find out if Cheryl A. Smith wrote anything else in this series and Inter-Library-Loan (ILL) it for you.<br /><br />Serendiptiously, I just read another author's blogpost about how L.J. Smith was "her <I>Twilight</I>" when she was a teen: reading your post reminded me of the mirror-world series she wrote. <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Night-Solstice-L-J-Smith/dp/141698965X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243278195&sr=1-1" REL="nofollow">here's the Amazon link</A> to <I>The Night of the Solstice</I> which may be the "Morgana" books you remember. I'm afraid I only read/skimmed L.J. Smith for readers' advisory purposes: I'm not terribly big on horror, myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com