The Charlotte Stories - Hardcover

Jam, Teddy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0888992106 ISBN 13: 9780888992109

Publisher: Groundwood Books, 1996

Three true-to-life stories, capturing such universal, everyday events as a new kid at the playground, a birthday party, and an unwanted mouse in the house, mix humor with a range of serious emotion to delve deeply into how children really feel, think, and behave.

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About the Author:

Teddy Jam (Matt Cohen) was the pseudonymous author of many wonderful children's books, including Night Cars (which Michele Landsberg called "the Canadian Goodnight Moon"), This New Baby, and The Year of Fire, The Stoneboat, The Kid Line and The Fishing Summer, now collected in the anthology How We Were. He was also a novelist who won the Governor General's Award for his last novel, Elizabeth and After. Harvey Chan immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong as a teenager. He has won the Ruth Schwartz Children's Book Award three times - with Paul Yee for Roses Sing on New Snow and Ghost Train, and with Celia Barker Lottridge for Music for the Tsar of the Sea by Celia Barker Lottridge. Harvey is currently living in Hong Kong.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-3-Jam has created a warm and endearing character in the rambunctious Charlotte. She has many questions that need to be answered. How does she know she has a brain if she doesn't feel it working? And how can she have a birthday party if she has insulted all of her friends? Charlotte is eager, independent, scheming, loving, and curious. Jam breathes life into her early on, as readers meet her as she hangs upside down from a bar in the park. Like most seven-year-olds, Charlotte says what is on her mind without giving it much thought, sometimes offending those around her. Yet in the end, she has redeemed herself and is ready to go on to a new adventure. Chan depicts a vivacious little girl with short, curly hair and an impish gleam in her eye. The softly colored pencil-and-watercolor drawings decorate each page beautifully, whether in a full-page spread or in a smaller, more confined area. Charlotte's stories will work best in the hands of those readers who are beyond the beginning-reader format of Pat Ross's "M and M" series (Puffin), but not yet ready for Beverly Cleary's books. A solid purchase for those libraries looking for easy fiction.
Lisa Marie Gangemi, Sousa Elementary School, Port Washington,
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