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Illustrated by Arnold Lobel and published by Harper,1965, Charlotte wrote
Someday
when her daughter, then named Ellen, was about eleven (it came out
a few years later). It was a time filled with many small and constant
frustrations in her daughter's life. Ellen's hair was short and curly instead of
long and straight, her older brother was consistently nasty to her, she was
terrible at sports and couldn't seem to get the hang of ballet, she was in
general grumpy and bored with a life in which nothing seemed to be going quite
right, and hungry for interesting adventures. |
| Charlotte captured her daughter's
many irritants and turned them into a funny, funny and very true
book, feistily illustrated with Arnold Lobel's equally funny pictures, about
longing for, as the jacket copy described it "...the days when the
impossible becomes possible, the unlikely turns likely, and dreams are no longer
dreams but realities." |
| And of course, she dedicated it to her daughter: "For Ellen right
now." |
| Now, "now" is some 35 years after it was written. Ellen Zolotow
has grown up and is Crescent Dragonwagon, who reports that quite a few of her "somedays"
did come true, though she never would have believed it possible at the time
Charlotte lovingly wrote this delightful and slightly wicked book. |
| A filmstrip of Someday was released in 1976 by Educational
Enrichment Materials. |
| How a wise teacher used this book in her classroom |
| What do other children wish will happen someday? Read what one class, and
their computer teacher, Mrs. Elsi, have to say, by going to
www.bestschools.org/seaman/classrooms/marcucci/someday.htm |
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