Best of
School-Stories

1993

Author's Day


Daniel Pinkwater - 1993
    Bramwell Wink-Porter gets more than he bargained for on his visit--even though he did not write The Fuzzy Bunny. This hilarious story will ring true for many children, teachers--and authors. Full color.

All About Alice


Penny Dale - 1993
    But when Laura goes to school, Alice spends the day doing all her own favorite things--until Laura comes home and she can have fun with her sister again. Full color.

Halmoni and the Picnic


Sook Nyul Choi - 1993
    But Yunmi worries that the other children will make fun of Halmoni's traditional Korean dress and unfamiliar food.

Schoolmates of the Long-Ago: Motifs and Archetypes in Dorita Fairlie Bruce's Boarding School Stories


Eva Margareta Löfgren - 1993
    The girls' school story has been even more neglected than the boys' story, but includes many of the best-remembered stories from the first half of the 20th C. During this period between the Wars girls' fiction was almost synonymous with the school story.One of the leading writers in the genre is Dorita Fairlie Bruce (1885-1970), creator of "Dimsie", "Nancy" and "Springdale" books. Here is for the first time a comprehensive presentation of this author, her life and works and special landscape on the West Coast of Scotland, all set against the background of the history of the school story from the 18th C. up to our own days.There has been a renewed interest in recent years, among collectors and historians of children's literature, in these fascinating stories of schoolgirl friendship and rivalry." (from back cover)

Chatterbox Jamie


Nancy Evans Cooney - 1993
    Back home he chatters on and on, but at school . . . not a word. Then one day Jamie gets the chance to tell about his baby sister, and suddenly the ice is broken. Full color.