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This story is astonishing and wonderful. Kate is a sublime storyteller and all this is on display in this wonderful story. Nosotros know her from the Mercy Watson stories and we become to see the streng
This was such a wonderful story. Lucelle 'Baby' Lincoln goes on a necessary journey thanks to a dream. She meets many wonderful characters and friends along the style as she is stepping out from under the strong personality of her sister Eugenia. She realizes she can be her own person and take her own thoughts.This story is astonishing and wonderful. Kate is a sublime storyteller and all this is on display in this wonderful story. We know her from the Mercy Watson stories and we get to see the strength she has inside. A fantastic middle grade story. This is fun and shows the spiritual side of taking a journey.
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Her contempo Deckawoo Bulldoze serial consist of shorter, more than light-hearted tales featuring favorite characters. This volume, in particular, focuses on the established relationship of the Lincoln sisters, where Euginia reigns supreme while Babe never speaks her mind. Well, not in this ane.
It was near time Baby Lincoln put her pes downwards. Going on a "necessary journey"
It is no secret that I adore Kate DiCamillo. She is, by far, one of the most talented authors in contemporary children's literature.Her recent Deckawoo Drive series consist of shorter, more than lite-hearted tales featuring favorite characters. This volume, in detail, focuses on the established relationship of the Lincoln sisters, where Euginia reigns supreme while Baby never speaks her mind. Well, non in this ane.
It was about time Baby Lincoln put her foot down. Going on a "necessary journeying" finally revealed Babe'southward real name, and gave Eugenia a scare enough to commencement affectionate her younger sister.
As always, DiCamillo respects the opinions and wisdom of the child protagonists in the story, and uses the characters to show a slice of the wider, real globe to her young readers. I admire her style and er ability to introduce young readers to more complex words with profound meanings, which are casually sprinkled throughout the text.
Bravo, Mrs. DiCamillo, from i of your fans who is manner too sometime to be a child (except when reading 1 of your gems).
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At present I really want to read the book Lucille writes....
This surprised me. I don't e'er love DiCamillo, just her Deckawoo Drive stories are very good. They take the heart and philosophy of her longer books, but are lighter, more curtailed, and funnier. I really appreciate that the author respects of the wisdom of young characters, and young readers, and I highly recommend this serial. And this, the 3rd, is the best nonetheless, imo, with no distracting ridiculousness.At present I really want to read the volume Lucille writes....
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In both this series and the original Mercy Watson stories, Baby Lincoln always seems to be in the shadow of her older sister, Eugenia. We don't fifty-fifty know the poor woman'southward name, since Eugenia gave her the nickname "Baby" when she was little and it has stuck e'er since. Eugenia is so forceful and bossy that Babe's go very good at but going along with whatever sh
I retrieve this is my favourite volume in the series notwithstanding! It has a bandage of wonderful characters, a nice message, and an interesting story.In both this serial and the original Mercy Watson stories, Baby Lincoln always seems to be in the shadow of her older sis, Eugenia. Nosotros don't even know the poor woman'south name, since Eugenia gave her the nickname "Baby" when she was petty and it has stuck ever since. Eugenia is so forceful and snobby that Baby's become very skillful at simply going along with whatsoever she says. So it'south refreshing to run into Infant step out of her large sister'due south shadow in this book and start to create a story of her own.
After having a dream about being on a train and seeing shooting stars, Baby gets fed up with Eugenia and her routines and decides to go on a Necessary Journey. She gets on a railroad train with the help of Stella, the little neighbor girl, and begins her trip. Forth the manner, she meets a number of interesting people who each give her something that changes her life for the meliorate. This culminates in her meeting a picayune boy named George and telling him a wonderful story about kings and pear trees and wolves.
Of course, being set in this universe, the story has to end with hot buttered toast (merely like all the other books), only in that location's likewise a little epilogue that shows how much Babe's journey has changed her. The graphic symbol evolution in this volume is really good. (And, yep, we do become to notice out Babe's real proper noun!)
This is my favourite book of the Tales of Deckawoo Bulldoze series so far, and mayhap even my favourite gear up in the Mercy Watson universe (I'm still waiting to get my hands on Book #4 of the previous series, though, so I tin can't say for sure). The Tales of Deckawoo Drive books seem like they're for a slightly older audition than Mercy Watson; they have more pages, a lot more than text, and tons of words that are going to take kids running to the dictionary. Simply I love how DiCamillo never shies away from challenging her readers, and I call up these are great books to aid foster a honey of reading and splendiferous words.
Quotable moment:
The words of the story came to her without her thinking too much about what they should be. It was as if she were reading a book that already existed, telling a story that she already knew....moreAs she read, George leaned in closer and closer until, finally, he was leaning right up against her. He was warm. He smelled like peanut butter and structure paper.
This is one of those.
2 elderly sisters alive together on Deckawoo Bulldoze. The elderberry, Eugenia, bosses and controls the younger sis. Then one night Baby Lincoln dreams of riding the train and watching stars streak across the sky. In the morning time her ordinary life is revealed in it's depressing constraints and and so she decides, much to the dismay of Eugenia, to go on a 'necessary journey.'
This journeying is more necessary than eit
You lot know those books that elevator your heart into the sky and let it soar?This is one of those.
Two elderly sisters live together on Deckawoo Drive. The elder, Eugenia, bosses and controls the younger sis. Then one night Baby Lincoln dreams of riding the train and watching stars streak beyond the sky. In the forenoon her ordinary life is revealed in it's depressing constraints and so she decides, much to the dismay of Eugenia, to go along a 'necessary journey.'
This journeying is more necessary than either of them can imagine.
Baby, doing something by herself for the first time, packs her handbag and sets out. She is met by many different and interesting characters along her necessary journey.
Stella, a young daughter, accompanies her to the train station ands helps her get on a railroad train to Fluxom.
A gentleman in a fur cap introduces her to the pleasance of reading newspaper comics.
A young adult female, Sheila, introduces her to the joys of jelly beans and helps her think her given name, Lucille Abigail Eleanor Lincoln.
A young boy is given into her temporary intendance and helps her notice her unknown souvenir for storytelling.
When Lucille arrives in Fluxom, she is uncertain what to do side by side. But don't worry dear reader, information technology all works out in the cease. When she returns home, both Infant and Eugenia live richer and more fulfilled lives.
Fifty-fifty though these characters are old folks, I am certain that readers of all ages will savour reading about them.
I read this through Netgalley and the artwork was missing. I'm going to have to find a copy of the existent book so I can capeesh Chris Van Dusen's illustrations.
Thanks Kate DiCamillo for some other tale from Deckawoo Drive and reminding all of usa that coming of age stories are not limited to the younger crowd.
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"I actually liked that Baby Lincoln was meeting new friends on the train! Information technology was happy at the end when Baby Lincoln finally knew that Eugenia loved her."
My half dozen-year old's rating and review."I really liked that Baby Lincoln was meeting new friends on the railroad train! It was happy at the end when Baby Lincoln finally knew that Eugenia loved her."
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Like its predecessors in the Tales of Deckawoo Drive series,
Leroy Ninker Saddles Up and Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon , Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln? features secondary Mercy Watson characters equally fundamental protagonists, exploring the relationship of the Lincoln sisters in unexpectedly poignant ways. I didn't recall information technology was possible to take a more positive view of Eugenia Lincoln, the crank of Deckawoo Drive, who regularly makes herself nasty most Mercy'southward exploits, just DiCamillo demonstrates that she has a softer, admitting well-hidden side. This collection of affiliate-books is a step upwards, in terms of reading level, from the Mercy Watson books, and is a great reading project for children who accept gone through those books and are looking for something more challenging. I'm not certain if DiCamillo plans to write any more than of these, but if she does, I volition certainly seek them out! ...more than
(This review doesn't practice justice to the volume at all.)
My favorite of this series! Necessary journeys, singing stars, jelly beans, and stories with wizards, wolves, kings, and pear trees. At present I need to go consume a cheese sandwich! And, as e'er, toast with a swell bargain of butter on it.(This review doesn't do justice to the book at all.)
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While this is a little advanced for my boy, and a little young for me, it is a hoot. I can't wait to read information technology to my son. It sends a lovely message through the train adventures of a brave lady. She finds herself, then finds herself dorsum at dwelling house with those she loves. I tin can't wait to read more of Watson and Deckawoo Drive.
Baby Lincoln enjoys a very good dream where she is traveling on a speedy train through a night filled with shooting stars on a
Should somebody tell Kate DiCamillo that the protagonist of a children's book should exist a child? Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln? is the 3rd book of her tales from Deckawoo Drive available from Candlewick on August 2. Illustrator Chris Van Dusen alerts usa with his art, fifty-fifty before we begin, that it has been a long, long time since Infant Lincoln was actually an infant.Baby Lincoln enjoys a very skillful dream where she is traveling on a speedy train through a nighttime filled with shooting stars on a necessary journey. Rudely awakened past her older sister who nonetheless calls her by the childhood nickname, the mean solar day begins with Eugenia giving Infant instructions on goals for the day that she has to write down. For the start fourth dimension in their grayness-headed lives, Baby rebels confronting her older sister. Her dream has given her this necessary journey that she must have.
Aided and abetted by her next door neighbour Stella, who does happen to be a child, she purchases a ticket to Fluxom since she doesn't have enough money to go to Calaband Darsh. Her travel gives Baby and the reader a delightful trip with some interesting travel companions, one time she learns to answer to her existent proper noun of Lucille. Make that Lucille Abigail Eleanor Lincoln – only she doesn't really need to apply all of that.
Back to my original question of telling Kate most using children to star in children's books – she's not going to hear information technology from me. This tale will delight a kid reader or an adult who is reading information technology aloud. One word of circumspection. Have a bowl of jellybeans set to munch as you read. Y'all'll exist glad you did.
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Lots of fun parts to this story and interesting characters, as usual.
*Information technology would be fun to have a purse of jelly beans for the kids when y'all read this book! Some other delightful tale in the Deckawoo drive series. I am reading this series to my kids, mainly my iii boys, age 12, 10, and 6. They beg me to keep reading every time I finish a chapter. This book was fun considering nosotros were able to experience Baby's awakening to herself and who she could be without her bossy sister telling her what to exercise.
Lots of fun parts to this story and interesting characters, as usual.
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Baby needs to proceed a Necessary Journeying.
A lesson will be learned and graphic symbol growth made :) Baby Lincoln is my favorite graphic symbol in the Mercy Watson serial and then I'1000 so excited she got her own story!
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I've read a couple books in this serial, so I am familiar with the main characters here. This title is a slight offshoot from the others, moving ane of the supporting characters, Baby Lincoln, into the main protagonist role. It is also a chapter book, while the Mercy Watson books, even when they have chapter headings, are really just picture books with capricious chapter breaks added (in my opinion, anyway).
I'll start with general impressions. The st
I received this volume in a Goodreads Giveaway.I've read a couple books in this series, so I am familiar with the main characters here. This title is a slight offshoot from the others, moving one of the supporting characters, Infant Lincoln, into the primary protagonist role. It is as well a chapter book, while the Mercy Watson books, even when they accept chapter headings, are really just picture books with arbitrary affiliate breaks added (in my opinion, anyhow).
I'll starting time with full general impressions. The story is solid and well told, and the pacing and emotional arc to the plot are compelling and drew me in quickly. Some may discover the phrasing and syntax a bit stilted or slow to develop, but I personally found it consistent with the lulling, dreamy, and transcendental (I don't know; maybe those all mean the same matter) manner of the story. The story was touching and was complex enough to cause some contemplation of the layers in the storytelling, merely all the same simple enough for a wide range of reader ages. I as well appreciated two things that Kate DiCamillo does quite frequently: (1) incorporates "out of age range" words, only enough to continue things challenging and stretch a reader's knowledge/skill boundaries; and (2) organizes series by number or blastoff or other increase, a subtlety that may be lost on some readers merely that I savour like footling crumbs of block scattered along the story's path. Some of the metaphors and descriptions were unique and a fleck fantastical too, which I constitute endearing.
Not much to say about Chris Van Dusen's illustrations—they are stellar every bit ever, and catch the emotions and timing of the characters well. The final product is beautifully laid out, with exquisite end papers and footling details throughout.
Now for the effectively details. I should note that I'm a professional editor and edit children'south books likewise as full-length novels—some of my observations may seem minor, and frankly, most of the problems I note below have little or no impact on the resulting readability of the book (at least for the vast majority of readers). Only I'll note them anyway.
Offset, I institute a disconnect between the text and illustrations in places. Often, DiCamillo'southward text describes a scene in great detail, while the accompanying art mirrors the clarification near exactly. For instance, in Chapter Three we meet a ticket salesman at the train station who is eating a cheese sandwich. We are told that the sandwich has many slices, that the cheese is orange, and that he is holding the sandwich in both easily. Other than the cheese existence orange (which would exist the most likely assumption by virtually readers and is non particularly relevant anyway), every other detail is shown perfectly by Van Dusen'south illustration. My guess is that there was not as much collaboration by DiCamillo and Van Dusen on this book as on previous titles, or perhaps a tight publishing deadline forced the book to get to print before it could be edited a final time to clean up some of the unneeded text, which is typically overwritten by the author for the illustrator so that the illustrator understands what should exist drawn, then is trimmed by the editor so that merely necessary prose is left. It appears that this was not washed in this case.
As I indicated before, some of the text could be considered a bit overwrought or stilted past some readers, though this is too a typical style for "dreamier" stories, which this is. However, this book was either edited by multiple editors or the editor was inconsistent in applying certain style elements. For instance, the second judgement on page 65 conspicuously is a compound sentence with several contained clauses. Though personally I probably would have carve up the whole sentence into ii smaller ones, the editor here chose to drib an early comma before a conjunction, making the entire sentence even more difficult and causing me to reread information technology a couple times.
In other places, even so, the choice was fabricated to add commas that might not take been needed, or to leave lengthy phrases in that could have been simplified. One example is on page 72, which ends with the sentence, "And behind this house, there grew pear copse, hundreds of them." Granted, the syntax here is somewhat stylistic, but information technology's also passive and overly wordy. It could easily be replaced with something similar, "Pear trees grew behind the house, hundreds of them," or "There pear trees grew, hundreds of them," or keeping nigh of the original style, "And behind the house grew pear copse, hundreds of them." Slight word changes, but tighter, more concise, and easier to read. In that location are also several times when the editor chose to employ "that" equally a pronoun when it was unnecessary and but muddled upward the prose.
Some verb uses were ones that most editors would weed out, such as the sentence "And saying her name, her real name, caused Infant to feel another ripple of joy," which could easily be replaced by "And saying her name, her real name, Baby felt another ripple of joy," which is more active, more to the point, and avoids the clumsy construction "caused to feel."
In a few other spots, series were constructed with multiple "ands" rather than existence divided by commas—though largely a stylistic choice, the sentences were complex enough that I found the construction a scrap confusing and less effective. The editor missed a serial comma in ane place, and in another, "me" is used when "I" should have been. Though it could have been the character'due south dialogue choice, nothing in the text indicated to me that that should have been the case.
A minor thing, but some compound nouns/adjectives such equally shooting star were hyphenated when they shouldn't accept been (in this particular case, meteor was non actually prenominative and shouldn't have been hyphenated even if it were). And finally, some transitions were a bit questionable. The chapter break betwixt Chapter Two and Affiliate Three almost certainly should accept been six paragraphs earlier, and the transition to another chapter in the middle of character dialogue seemed foreign.
So my assessment is this: (1) slap-up story and not bad storytelling (five-star); (ii) great illustrations (v-star); (3) poor editing and proofreading of the final product (one or ii stars).
As usual, in the end I loved DiCamillo's story and the identify she created for me to visit for a precious bit.
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Kate DiCamillo's ain journeying is something of a dream come true. Later
Kate DiCamillo, the newly named National Ambassador for Young People'southward Literature for 2014–2015, says nearly stories, "When we read together, nosotros connect. Together, we see the earth. Together, nosotros see one another." Born in Philadelphia, the author lives in Minneapolis, where she faithfully writes two pages a day, 5 days a week.Kate DiCamillo's own journey is something of a dream come truthful. After moving to Minnesota from Florida in her twenties, homesickness and a bitter winter helped inspire Because of Winn-Dixie - her first published novel, which, remarkably, became a runaway bestseller and snapped up a Newbery Honor. "After the Newbery commission chosen me, I spent the whole solar day walking into walls," she says. "I was stunned. And very, very happy."
Her second novel, The Tiger Ascension, went on to become a National Book Laurels Finalist. Since then, the master storyteller has written for a wide range of ages, including two comical early-chapter-book series - Mercy Watson, which stars a "porcine wonder" with an obsession for buttered toast, and Bink & Gollie, which celebrates the alpine and short of a marvelous friendship - as well as a luminous holiday picture book, Great Joy.
Her latest novel, Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, won the 2014 Newbery Medal. It was released in fall 2013 to great acclamation, including five starred reviews, and was an instant New York Times bestseller. Flora & Ulysses is a laugh-out-loud story filled with eccentric, endearing characters and featuring an heady new format - a novel interspersed with comic-style graphic sequences and full-page illustrations, all rendered in black and white by upward-and-coming artist G. Chiliad. Campbell. Information technology was a 2013 Parents' Pick Gold Accolade Winner and was chosen by Amazon, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Common Sense Media as a Best Volume of the Year.
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