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another book from fifth grade. i remember doodling the characters in my notebook as my teacher read aloud.
Such a wonderfully diverse collection of short stories: funny, serious, sad, sweet, romantic, snarky. If you need a go to read aloud and are able to get into it, start with "The Contests at Cowlick." If you want something more poignant, start with "The Dark Princess."
This is one of my favorite short story books. I read these over and over as a kid and recently have been reading them to my own kids.
My father bought this book for me as a child and we read many of the stories together as I was learning to read longer books and stories. It is a collection of 16 short stories including two narrative poems. Some of them are fables some of them are serious some of them are serious. There was even one that I remember never wanting to read at night because it sort of scared me. Richard Kennedy is a brilliant story teller. I have been able to pull this book off the shelf many times over the years a...
Richard Kennedy's stories are the best!! These are really modern fairy tales, simple and strange and evocative. One, called "Inside My Feet," was the pinnacle scary story of my childhood.
I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that so many readers have referred to this as a children's book. I know that some of the stories have also appeared in picture book format. But I got acquainted with Richard Kennedy's tales as an adult, and I think of them as adult fare. True, some of the stories are simple and fun. Many are serious and thought-provoking. My favorites in the collection are "The Porcelain Man" and "Come Again in the Spring."
Two of the stories are especially good class read alouds - thought-provoking and making for great discussion. 'The Lost Kingdom of Karnica' was the focus of a great analytical discussion last week among my fifth grade students. It's also fun to read, with all the muckle-muckle absurdity of the king's greed. "Come Again in the Spring" is sweet and heartwarming.
Update - this is now avl. as a scanned copy, free to borrow & read online at openlibrary.org. Some of the shorts that had gotten their own book treatment are, too, and so is the novel-length fairy tale adventure book:Amy's Eyes|179406].Surreal and/or frightening and/or humorous and/or Literary original stories inspired by folklore. Some are very short, and avl. online; The Porcelain Man is an example. Some I've worked hard to find and treasured in picture-book form, for example The Blue Stone. F...
An excellent storyteller, using "enchantment" in many, but most of the endings were unsatisfying or unsatisfactory in my view. I did like "The Lost Kingdom of Karnica," and "Oliver Hyde's Dishcloth Concert."
I was intrigued by the Dark Princess, so I tried this collection. Didn't really like any of the other stories though the Porcelain Man was sweet.
