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HAH! Check it out, Matilda made the list after all! And one spot PAST Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, even! Also I got quoted again, you might notice.
I'm interested in what she said about how this might have something to do with Matilda being one of Dahl's only female protagonists, and definitely the only one with her name in the title. The only others I can think of are Sophie in The BFG and the protag of The Magic finger whose name I can't even remember because I was never that into that one. And The BFG is my very close second-favorite Dahl, and I DID as a child have a weird thing about avoiding books with boy main characters-- though this didn't keep me from reading all Dahl's other books, boy-starring though they may be, perhaps the girl-issue DID subconsciously affect my favoritism....
In other news, it's beautiful outside, and Maddie cracks me up with her love of it. She is most definitely an outdoors person. I thought so last year, too, but it's even clearer now. She COMES TO LIFE outside. Which reminds me of-- I'm sorry, those of you who don't care-- another bookish Internet countdownish phenomenon going on right now, the School Library Journal's Battle of the Kids' Books. I link to that particular round of the battle because I'm mildly offended at some of the commenters' hatred slung at Calpurina Tate as they defend Fire, because while I don't doubt Fire is a very good book, Calpurina Tate IS my daughter so don't nobody be dissin' her book! I'm serious, she reminded me of Maddie when Maddie was only five months old. She's 11 months now and the similarity is even stronger if anything. Except Maddie has much more of an opportunity to actually grow up to be a naturalist!
That or a rock star. Is it wrong of me to totally want my daughter to be a rock star? NOT a pop singer, or a hip-hop or country or jazz artist, or opera singer; A ROCK STAR. thank you.
I'm interested in what she said about how this might have something to do with Matilda being one of Dahl's only female protagonists, and definitely the only one with her name in the title. The only others I can think of are Sophie in The BFG and the protag of The Magic finger whose name I can't even remember because I was never that into that one. And The BFG is my very close second-favorite Dahl, and I DID as a child have a weird thing about avoiding books with boy main characters-- though this didn't keep me from reading all Dahl's other books, boy-starring though they may be, perhaps the girl-issue DID subconsciously affect my favoritism....
In other news, it's beautiful outside, and Maddie cracks me up with her love of it. She is most definitely an outdoors person. I thought so last year, too, but it's even clearer now. She COMES TO LIFE outside. Which reminds me of-- I'm sorry, those of you who don't care-- another bookish Internet countdownish phenomenon going on right now, the School Library Journal's Battle of the Kids' Books. I link to that particular round of the battle because I'm mildly offended at some of the commenters' hatred slung at Calpurina Tate as they defend Fire, because while I don't doubt Fire is a very good book, Calpurina Tate IS my daughter so don't nobody be dissin' her book! I'm serious, she reminded me of Maddie when Maddie was only five months old. She's 11 months now and the similarity is even stronger if anything. Except Maddie has much more of an opportunity to actually grow up to be a naturalist!
That or a rock star. Is it wrong of me to totally want my daughter to be a rock star? NOT a pop singer, or a hip-hop or country or jazz artist, or opera singer; A ROCK STAR. thank you.
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Date: 2010-03-22 01:56 pm (UTC)From:Still, as always, hoping our dear Anne with an "e" will be number one.
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Date: 2010-03-22 09:36 pm (UTC)From:Are you following it on your own or just when I mention it? Either way, you either know already or don't know and I'm telling you now that Harriet the Spy hit the list today at #16-- which I had figured would have been one of those unshakable Top Tenners. I've got my predictions list of the last books in no particular order because I can't figure out what order to put them in, and with HARRIET out of the Top Ten, well, part of me thinks what on earth WILL make the Top Ten, but the other part thinks Well that's more slots on the Top Ten OPEN, which makes Anne even MORE likely to be one of them! Not sure about number one, because maybe it's just a Girl Thing, but still, like I said before, my theory about Anne is that nobody doesn't LOVE her. Sure, lots of people may not like her, but everyone who DOES like her LOVES her, meaning everybody who likes her at ALL probably also VOTED for her, so she's bound to do well, right?