SUN & SPOON By Kevin Henges

Teachers.Net Book Talk May 29, 1998

Sun & Spoon

by Kevin Henkes

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On May 29, 1998, a group of teachers convened in the Teachers.Net Conference Room to discuss the book "Sun & Spoon". Their discussion has been recorded here for your information and pleasure....

Jimmie/ESL/TX - I'm very excited about this book talk. I ran to the public library (well, actually I drove) this week, checked out Sun & Spoon, and read it the night before last. I enjoyed it.
Yolanda - Did you get a chance to read it Kat?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Yes, I did read it (ordered via our link here)
Kat/Kathleen/CT - I liked the book as soon as I held it in my hands..
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Jimmie, does the Library copy have a nice, silky smooth paper cover?
Yolanda - I think that's what drew me to the book, the cover and the fact that I recognized the author.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - I know what you mean, Kathleen. When I pulled it off the library shelf, it was such a beautiful looking book I just sort of stroked it a few times. Nice size, and I think the children will like the amount of print on a page. I don't know if it has a silky cover because they covered it up with that plastic overlay stuff.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - I am not familiar with the author's name, but I read that he wrote Owen..I've haven't used that book, but I;ve seen it.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - It has kinesthetic appeal.. :-)
Jimmie/ESL/TX - I love Kevin Henkes. But I've only read his picture books before. I use Chrysanthemum every year. :) So I was excited to find this book.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Yolanda, remember we were talking about me thinking the story would make me cry? It didn't, but it was moving, touching.
Yolanda - He's written Juilus the Baby of the World ( asibling rivalry story), Crysanthemum ( a perculair name for a girl) and others I can't recall right now.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - He has written quite a few books..
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Yolanda, I'm saving the book for my little grandson..he is only 6 now, too young for the story, but we too have a very special relationship
Yolanda - So MAry, did you like the story? Could you relate in anyway?
Mary K&1 - I didn't read it, sorry, I've been a bad girl, I just came to listen
Yolanda - That's fine Mary. Are you a grandma b/c if you are we could use your emotional feelings.
Bob R/CA - Yolanda, do you want to tell us about the book? Kat, Jimmie, have you read it?
Yolanda - Alright if I must.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - mary, I was thinking that it would be good to have people here who haven't read the book..to ask questions
Mary K&1 - I'm not a grandma, but I feel like one
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Kathleen, you're right! It does have a silky cover! I love it! Yes, Bob, for once I was a good girl and did my homework. LOL
Yolanda - It's about a little boy, Spoon, whose grandma dies. He tries and finds something of hers to remember her by. Kat?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - I did read the book, I did like it
Kat/Kathleen/CT - WEll, he goes to his grampa's home and takes a special deck of cards his gram used when the 3 of them played cards..he takes them w/o permission..grampa misses them and can't sleep..Jimmie :-)
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Well, the boy, Spoon, slips the cards back into the drawer where they were kept, and Grampa finds them and thinks it is some sort of spiritual event..a sign..then Spoon tells him the truth
Jimmie/ESL/TX - He chose the cards with the suns on them that his grandmother always used when Spoon, and his grandparents played triple solitaire. She collected suns, so it was something personal so he wouldn't forget his grandmother. He didn't want a picture of her. But it seems that his grandfather was using the same deck of cards to keep from missing his wife so much. He'd play with them at night when he couldn't sleep.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Mary, we were saying that it is physically a very appealing book to hold, touch
Yolanda - Grandpa completely understands why he took them and gives Spoon a photograph, not at all what he wanted but he accepted it. Kat?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Spoon was looking for something that made him feel connected to the Gram he misses so much after her death 2 months before, the cards filled the need..
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Oh, mary, yes, it's appealing to look at, too
Jimmie/ESL/TX - And the pages are not crowded with print. Nice big margins and a good size of print.
Yolanda - OK Kat so how did the ending go?
Mary K&1 - So, this book is not approp. for under 9yrs?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - And when Spoon tells Pa that he took Gram's cards and replaced them, Pa was a little disappointed. But he offered the cards to Spoon. Spoon told Pa to keep the card. Then they played solitaire for the first time since Gram had died. :)
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Anyway. Spoon receives the photo from his "Pa" (grandfather) and it is of his Gram when she was a girl...and they find a tracing of her hand when she was 10 like Spoon..
Yolanda - It actually says that this book is geared towards Grades 3 to 5 and ages 8 and up.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - He sees that Gram had written her name, Martha, on her traced hand and wondered why she wrote the M so large.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - On the hand traing is a large 'M'..and written "M is always for Martha" (Grams name was Martha), then he discovers the M is the lines in the palm of his hand and he is happy to carry that connection..
Mary K&1 - So far from what you fine folks have described, it sounds like younger kids could understand the messages that the book holds
Yolanda - And in the tracing Grampa tells (I think) Spoon that on her hand is an "M". He has it too. He notices it when he gives his sister a bag. And M is always for Martha.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - I was thinking about trying to read it to my 6 year old grandson, but I was afraid it would scare him ..death of grandmother, not that we experience her dying
Yolanda - Mary - I would read it to my class if someone had just lost a grandma b/c it would give them something to do. Search for something that might rememebr her by.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Now, I would like to ask, were you sad for Pa when he learned the truth about the cards not being moved by martha, but by Spoon?
Yolanda - Yes I was very sad for him. I felt like he was just moping around waiting to die himself.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - He notices the M on Joanie's hands as he's giving her the bag that Pa sent to her. He'd never noticed the M in people's palms before. Ta dah! Great, Bob!
Yolanda - Since my lit class I have been studying illustrations more than usaual. What do you suppose the pictures on the cover represents?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - The cover is more beautiful illuminated
Mary K&1 - Grandma looking down from above?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Well, I felt sorry for Pa when he was missing the cards. He was disappointed that it wasn't a sign from Gram. But I think that he must have felt better after Spoon told him to keep the cards. And he will definitely feel better when Spoon tells him about his sign (the M).
Mary K&1 - Where does "Sun" fit in?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Well, the turmoil of the storm, the sun between, rainbow rebirth and happiness..
Mary K&1 - Oh, was sun on the card he took?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Gram collected suns
Yolanda - Sun - Grandma being the sunshine in everyone's life?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - The storm represents the grief experienced by Pa and Spoon, both missing Gram so much. The storm in the story was that, too, I think.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - the cards had suns on them because Gram collected everything with suns
Yolanda - yes the sun was something Grandma liked to collect. Things with the sun on it.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Yes, Gram collected suns, and the deck of cards Spoon took had suns on them. That's why he chose to take the cards.
Lugene - My 10 year old son...who deeply misses his grandma...just finished this book and loved it. I don't know if it's not appropriate for under 9...I just think they would better understand all the feelings involved.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - the cards had suns on them because Gram collected everything with suns
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Oh, Lugene, so glad you came with that perspective and experience..tell us about your son's reactions
Yolanda - I think that if a child can relate to this book then he/she should read it or be read to. It really is a lovely story.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - The rainbow came at the end of the story. As Pa and Spoon went inside to play solitaire, Spoon threw out the last of his tepid water. It made a rainbow for a brief moment. The rainbow signifies hope for the future/ resolution of problems, I think. I'm never to sure about my interpretations (never did well in high school coming up with these things).
Bob R/CA - I agree, I think children are ready to deal with death from an early age, and more often than not they must anyway
Yolanda - It sounds really good Jimmie.
Bob R/CA - (well, that was ineloquent, but you get my point)
Yolanda - What did you all think of the realtionship between Spoon and Joanie?
Yolanda - You're doing great Bob:)
Jimmie/ESL/TX - And see how the cover goes from dark to light? Like the characters were under a cloud as they struggled to keep memories of Gram alive. And life was brighter after they found their own ways.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Bob, you're right, and this book really was not graphic about death..we weren't present, so this is a good book about dealing with the sense of loss, longing
Mary K&1 - I agree, Bob
Mary K&1 - Who illustrated the book?
Bob R/CA - (whether it is a family pet or friend of the family or relative, most aren't shielded too long from it)
Kat/Kathleen/CT - He illustrates his own books
Jimmie/ESL/TX - I loved the relationship between Spoon and Joanie. She was 4 years younger and always followed him around. He couldn't get a moment's peace. But he really learned a lot about his little sister and they developed a closer bond. :)
Yolanda - He did.
Bob R/CA - it is a beautiful cover, warm and somehow wet (at least in my browser)
Yolanda - It sort of reminded me of my brother and me. He is four years younger and always followed me around but we are very close.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - And I liked how he titled the parts of his book: The Search, The Sun, The Storm, The Sign. Nice...
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Bob, the cover feels very smooth and silky, very appealing to hold, it's a small book..a keeper
Yolanda - I liked that Spoon pushed Joanie at one point b/c it showed how real they were. Siblings usually, if not always, fight.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - It's a very sumptious book to hold, feel, and look at. Extremely appealing.
Bob R/CA - Kat, is it available in paperback? What does it sell for?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - I didn't see it in paperback..it's worth buying this one in harcover $15 full ;price, but I got it for less through our link
Mary K&1 - Who is the publisher?
Yolanda - Greenwillow
Jimmie/ESL/TX - And when he pushed her, she got hurt. She looked at him and said softly, "I knew you wouldn't be nice to me forever." And her simple statement, really got to Spoon. I think that's when his attitude and relationship with Joanie started to change.
Bob R/CA - Published by Greenwillow
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Publisher, Greenwillow.
Bob R/CA - Amazon: Our Price: $10.50
Yolanda - I loved it! I could just hear her saying that.
Bob R/CA - Is this a book about self-discovery? Growing up?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - And she apparently didn't say it in a condemning way, because it made Spoon feel really badly. He was thinking about how easily Joanie had forgiven him.
Yolanda - He does grow up within the story and I would say he discovers himself too. His emotions seem to mature as the book goes on.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - I thought maybe Joanie was given too much ability with insight for her age, not too realistic..observing "Why are you being so nice to me?" isn't the typical 6 year olds ability to analyze
Yolanda - I especially loved when he made a Secret notebook with her. The images in my mind were so vivid.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Well, Spoon learns a lot of growing up as he deals with his loss (of Gram). But he realizes that the other people around him have losses and hopes just like he does. He begins to be more sensitive to that and respect it.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Yes, bob a coming to terms, growing up, dealing with loss
Yolanda - True Kat but when a sister is usually picked on or forgotten and then all of sudden the sibling is being nice they may pick that up.
Mary K&1 - Joanie may be advanced for her age, some are, you know.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - I liked the notebokk idea as a good model for (boys) reading the book..epres emotions that can't be shared with others, catharsis
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Well, he was always trying to ditch her. All of a sudden he started doing things with her. But he had an ulterior motive. She knew that this was not status quo.
Mary K&1 - It's one the the seven intelligences
Bob R/CA - what was his motive for being nice to her?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Yes, I liked the notebook, too.
Yolanda - To keep her from asking questions and throw her off track.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - his motive at first was just to cover up his plot to steal something of Gram's..
Jimmie/ESL/TX - His motive for being nice to her was to get her occupied doing something so that she would leave him alone while he found something to remember Gram by (he took her to Pa's), so he could work on his notebook (if she made one, too, she'd be too busy to be nosy).
Kat/Kathleen/CT - He is simply a nice kid
Kat/Kathleen/CT - He comes from a nurturing, supportive family, he's experiencing the mixed emotions of a boy growing, needing independence, not wanting, but wanting his little sister around
Kat/Kathleen/CT - The parents are often seen in the story outdoors in their garden together..
Mary K&1 - How old is he, I forgot
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Yes, I knew from the time he stole the cards when it mentioned how large the cards felt in his pocket and at the end of part 1 they felt as if they were smoldering and burning a hole in his pocket...I knew he'd begin to feel badly (he did almost immediately even while he was happy to have them).
Yolanda - Does it mention where the story takes place?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - He was 10 and Joanie was 6.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - The parents encourage the kids to work out solutions to their problems and disputes..the injured party has to feel satisfied with the offender's proposed gesture of reconciliation
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Madison, WI
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Yes, that was wonderful, wasn't it, Kathleen? And the kids worked it out easliy.
Yolanda - Why can't kids in school do that!
Bob R/CA - were the characters of the children believable, by today's standards?
Yolanda - I would say so b/c there was a lot of things that they did and said that kids say today.
Mary K&1 - Some do, and they get better at it as the year progresses if the teacher insists upon it and models it for them
Jimmie/ESL/TX - I found them to be believable, Bob.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Back to Pa..I was kind of wishing he was allowed to believe that something mystical had happened when the cards disappeared then reappeared.
Lugene - I'll try this again...my previous message didn't show up.
Bob R/CA - Kat, what do you mean "allowed to believe something mystical happened"?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - I wished that Spoon hadn't told Pa, too. But it is certainly to Spoon's credit that he owned up to what he did.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Boy, I had a frozen screen, just finally got a whole bunch of messages to catch up on..the kids were believable for the most part (exept I still say 6 year old Joanie was given powers of observation beyond her years)
Bob R/CA - nevermind!
Yolanda - I knew that Spoon would tell his Grandpa that he took them. A kid who treats his sister nicely from time to time can't withhold info. like that. Especially after he takes him to he cemetery. Speaking of. Do you think it's appropriate to take a child to the cemetery?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Pa thought that when the cards disappeared, then showwed up in the same place, that it was some sign from his dead wife. And that made him feel comforted.
Bob R/CA - I do
Yolanda - At any age Bob?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - In general, Kathleen, I think you are right that most 6 year olds aren't that observant. But I've known a few who are wise well beyon their years. She does have two older brothers.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Yes, I take my 6 year old grandson as often as I can so that he will remember my father and my brother, and to help him be comfortable with death, and to have that feeling of conectiedness and caring beyond the grave
Yolanda - I'm so sorry:( I take my 2 year old niece to visit her grandpa in the cemetery. She's been going since she was months old.
Bob R/CA - yes, I think that in opposition to the fact that they are too young to be put through that, they are also too young to fully comprehend, and they (I would posit) learn to deal with it as they learn to undertsand it
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Sure, I think it's appropriate. You have to judge from child to child, however. But for many children, it helps them to put closure to something. Many children have buried a pet fish, bird, hamster, etc. in their back yards.
Bob R/CA - right, Jimmie, if the child was traumatized that might change things totally
Yolanda - I just wish that my grandma was buried close by where I can visit her grave. She's in P.R. Too far away.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Very true. That's why I say that it should be judged on an individual basis. Certainly no child should be forced to go if it would frighten them unduly or add to any trauma.
Yolanda - Do you believe it when parents tell teachers that their child is acting out b/c of a loss of a loved one even though it may have happened over a year ago?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Yolanda, sometimes, but not always.
Lugene - I'll keep trying to join you, but I'm having problems
Mary K&1 - Yes, if the parent is having a hard time about the loss, kids pick up on their parents' emotions
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Yolanda, that may be more the adults' emotion..unles the death was of a parent or very close realtive
Yolanda - That is true. I never thought of that. Thanks Mary.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - I had a student several years ago who saw his father shot in the living room of their house. He'd just gotten up out of his lap. He attended the funeral and graveside. The graveside seemed to greatly disturb him.
Bob R/CA - Kat, I've been lucky, relatively speaking -- this country doesn't have "war children"
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Far too young, Bob. :(
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Jimmie, horrible, that is the unusual, thank God!
Yolanda - Jimmie - I think in violent cases like that the kids will definitely react differently. I know I would.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - I think burial is different for a child to observe than visiting a grave
Bob R/CA - does anyone here teach inner city?
Mary K&1 - Reaction and how an event effects different people is related to the stage of development that each is in at the time of the event
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Yes, poor child. He kept talking about his dad's "pretty bed" and how dark it was going to be because they closed the lid of the pretty bed. Then he talked about how scared his dad must be when they started throwing dirt on the pretty bed and how could he breathe and how it would be dark forever.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - No, I teach in a Dallas suburb.
Yolanda - Well I teach in Manhattan in New York but in The Village. I'm not sure if that's considered inner-city.
Bob R/CA - right, Mary, I suppose that's not always equivalent to age
Bob R/CA - Yolanda, my neurotic aunt lives in the village -- interesting woman
Bob R/CA - yes, a newberry winner - Madeliene L'Engle
Yolanda - If she's neurotic. she must be interesting.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - :) I love Madeliene L'Engle's books.
Bob R/CA - Me too!!!!!!
Mary K&1 - Us country folks are starting to get a taste of what the inner city people have been experiencing for a long time now
Yolanda - Alright, what do you think about these parents who were always in the garden?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Lugene and I are corres. by e-mail. She says her son did an excellent job with an oral book report on the book, incorporated some of his beloved grandmother's belongings into his prsentation
Jimmie/ESL/TX - I haven't read any of them in a while, though. Maybe this summer. :)
Bob R/CA - (uhhh, me too on the Madeliene L'Engle, not the neurotic. Right? I said RIGHT??? STOP TALKING BACK TO ME. I WILL NOT!
Jimmie/ESL/TX - How wonderful about his report. Very touching way to present a book!
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Bob, LOL!!!!
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Bob, your aunt is Madeliene L'Engle??
Bob R/CA - well, no, I no, she's not
Yolanda - Kat - keep up will you?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Lugene is having bad storms, so she is shutting down
Mary K&1 - Back to the garden parents - nurturing?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Well, Kathleen *is* chatting and doing email. Poor Lugene.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - [I'm e-mailing and doing this too, stretching my abilities here]!
Yolanda - Tell her I said I'm sorry she was having such a difficult time.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Yes, Mary they are very nurturing, an intact family
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Mary! I thought you said you did not read the book!
Bob R/CA - A Wrinkle in Time - ages 9-12 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440998050/002-4733940-5320049
Yolanda - She's paying attention Jimmie!
Kat/Kathleen/CT - And the kids help with the weeding..
Mary K&1 - You good people have done a very good job of critiquing the book
Yolanda - Thanks Mary
Kat/Kathleen/CT - That might be a good selection for a Book TAlk..Wrinkle in time..
Yolanda - EEWWW Bob that looks like a science fiction book. I like almost all books but science fiction.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Yes, this is a very good family, close.
Bob R/CA - I'd love to actually _participate_ intelligently in one of these things!
Yolanda - That's what Bob and I were discussing secretly until he made an error in posting a message.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Thanks, Bob! :) Yolanda, you should try Madeliene L'Engle, though.
Yolanda - What was the older boys name? and how old was he?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - the parents are both Teachers!! Pa was a professor earlier in life..I forget, was Gram a working Mom?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Charlie was 12.
Yolanda - Jimmie - I'll think about it.
Bob R/CA - Yo, it was a newberry award winner - science fiction, yes, maybe fantasy is a better word
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Bob, pick a book and lead a talk sometime..I'll sign you up (right Pip?)
Mary K&1 - I'm lost, who's Charlie?
Bob R/CA - (but CLASSIC is a better)
Yolanda - Charlie is the older brother but he was away at camp.
Yolanda - Why Not?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - the older brother is Charlei, he is away at the maternal grandmother's during the story
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Charlie is Spoon and Joanie's older brother who went to visit the *other* grandmother, Evie.
Yolanda - I thought he was away at camp.
Yolanda - Oh Yeah now I remember. Thanks guys. I think I need to read these books closer to the group date.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - No, the twin friends were away at camp
Yolanda - Weren't they going to camp?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - No, he went to Evie's. The family had planned a summer vacation with Evie (the other grandma). Evie said that she'd fly any or all the kids out to visit. The family cancelled vacation plans to stay near Pa.
Yolanda - OOOOHHH!!!!:) Thanks Kat, I knew there was a mention of camp in the book.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - I just realized something..the family had planned a journey for this summer, but it was canceled due to the grandmother's death, but the story details a different kind of journey
Mary K&1 - Kat, when do you have time to read?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - By the time the twins convinced Spoon to sign up for camp, he had to be put on a waiting list. He only made it up to 4th from the top.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Mary, I read it today when there was a bad storm and I had to go off line!!!
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Mary, it's qucik read
Jimmie/ESL/TX - It's a very quick read! I read it in a couple of hours while I was waiting for pages to load as I was surfing. LOL
Yolanda - I read it on my way home from school.
Mary K&1 - Jimmie, that's a really slow connection!!!
Kat/Kathleen/CT - my husband had to wear a long sleeved shirt today because I was too busy to iron his short sleeved shirts that have piled up!!
Mary K&1 - Yolanda, I hope you wern't driving
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Slow connection?
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Oh! I get it.
Yolanda - I don't know how to drive:(
Jimmie/ESL/TX - No, I'd read a couple of pages and the thing would be waiting on me. But I managed.
Yolanda - Any last cooments about the book before we officially part? Jimmie - why don't you go first since you were here first.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Well, I loved this book for the way it showed the way the characters dealt with grief, loss, but going on. :)
Jimmie/ESL/TX - They emerged triumphant in the end.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - The book is making me think about what I will "leave" for my grandson someday. Not something material..something more ethereal
Jimmie/ESL/TX - I found it interesting that Spoon really wanted something more than just a picture. Something that was part of Gram.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Yes, Jimmie, but I understood that..lost my Dad and brother within 14 weeks of each other..the need to touch, have contact is great..
Kat/Kathleen/CT - You want to hold something they held....
Bob R/CA - that's very sad Kat :o(
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Yes, I wanted things from my grandmothers, too.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - And at first, their smell is still on it.
Mary K&1 - I'd like to thank all of you for your clear and understandable explanation of the book, I may read it now, you've got my interest interested
Yolanda - I'm still looking for something from my dad's. He died two years ago. I did somehow managed to find a pair of his socks mixed in with my laundry around the time of his death. I took that as a sign and they have been in my drawer ever since.
Bob R/CA - My compliments to the chef(s) :o)
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Mary, you should read it! It's a great little book. Not too long, but long enough to do a beautiful job.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - The other sad part for me..I never really knew my grandparents...not close geographically, they died when I was 4 &5 , so the relationship between grandchild and grandparent is very fascinating and alluring to mee..I'm loving being a grandmother!
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Yolanda, I hope you find something to add to the socks.
Yolanda - I have a bracelet from my grandmas's that we made together out of beads and a string. I don't ever let anyone even touch it.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - I smell my Dad's sweater..it's hanging in my closet..
Bob R/CA - (for helping here tonight - kaT, Yolanda, Jimmie for your help, and Mary, what can I say!
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Yes, Yolanda, those things become priceless.
Yolanda - I'm trying to put a video together of all our times together and the families to go along with music but haven't started the project yet. Not sure what to do.
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Yolanda, that will be beautiful
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Give it time, Yolanda. Ideas will come.
Yolanda - I need to go rest now and get my body back to normal! I enjoyed the book talk tonight. Oh my last comments. I loved the book and hope I can be a grandma some day too but I need to be a mom first.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Thanks for being a great hostess, Yolanda. Great book. I wouldn't have read it if it hadn't been for this book talk. I was sooooo excited to be here (I wasn't even late today, for a change, LOL).
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Yolanda, thank you very much, and I hope you feel better in the morning!
Yolanda - Thank you Jimmie. Kat? When did we say the next one is?
Yolanda - Thank you Kat. I'll let you know the next book by Monday evening.
Bob R/CA - Bye all - have a great weekend!!!!
Kat/Kathleen/CT - June 12
Jimmie/ESL/TX - Bye, Bob! :)
Yolanda - Goodnight Bob!
Mary K&1 - Bye all and rest up!
Yolanda - Goodnight all and thank you once again:) :) :)
Bob R/CA - Hi Shawn!
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Oh, Shawn, you missed a good Book Talk!
Shawn - is kevin henkes here yet?????
Jimmie/ESL/TX - What book are we doing next time?
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Yolanda will let us know what her next book pick is.
Mary K&1 - Shawn, he wasn't coming, sorry
Yolanda - Jimmie - It'll be posted sometime next week. Stay tuned!
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Shawn, Kenin Henkes wasn't here..we discussed one of his books
Shawn - i was really looking forward to this.
Shawn - oh.
Yolanda - Sorry Shawn it was only me and the gang discussing his book.
Jimmie/ESL/TX - OK, thanks, Kathleen. And I saw that we've got another author coming, too. :) G'nite, ya'll. Luv ya!
Yolanda - Goodnight again!!
Kat/Kathleen/CT - Good night!! this was great!!