"The celebration of the child's imagination – and the lack of that creative spark in the father (in the Mulberry Street book) – was a very pointed critique of how adult society often tries to tame inventiveness," Michelson said. Geisel's upbringing and the community here sparked much of his own imagination. "We first experience the world through a specific locale, and most good writers can transform their own specific memories into a universal feeling that resonates with all readers because of a certain universal attachment to our surroundings." Where people come from – including the street, house and room where they first lived – is often at the core of who they become, says Northampton-based children's author Richard Michelson. "His childhood was very important – the impressions, the people he met, the things he saw," McLain said. Most of Geisel's books have a connection to Springfield because his childhood here was key in forming the images that appear in his books, according to McLain. McLain, director of the Lyman & Merrie Wood Museum of Springfield History. Geisel, author of "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street," which marks its 75th anniversary this fall, lived on Fairfield Street in the Forest Park section of the City of Homes.īut it's likely he walked or rode the trolley past Mulberry Street on his way to Classical High School on State Street, says Guy A. Seuss never lived on Mulberry Street, but oh, to think of all the things he saw growing up here a century ago.
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The Doughnut Fix series primarily falls into the General Fiction genre. His suspicions about his new town are confirmed when he's tricked into believing the local general store has life-changing chocolate cream doughnuts, when in fact the owner hasn't made them in years.Īnd so begins the only thing that could make life in Petersville worth living: getting the recipe, making the doughnuts, and bringing them back to the town through his very own doughnut stand. It's like suddenly they're supposed to be this other family, one that can survive without bagels and movie theaters. But his life takes a turn for the worse when his parents decide to move to middle-of-nowhere Petersville - a town with one street and no restaurants. Tristan isn't gifted or talented like his sister Jeanine, and he's always been okay with that because he can make a perfect chocolate chip cookie and he lives in the greatest city in the world. Superfudge meets The Lemonade War in this funny, heartwarming series debut about change, adventure, family, and of course, doughnuts. Overall, the world building sounds like it has a lot of potential, but the story itself was lacking. Such books generally annoy me, especially when they're the first of the series. Honestly, it looks like Card may have just cu the book in parts, since Seventh Son by itself doesn't really come to a climax, it just sort of ends at what would have been a section break in many other books. On the downside, this is very obviously the first book of a series. Publication date 1988 Topics Cultural Literacy and Humanities, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12 Publisher T. Towards the end, he manages to heal what should have been a deadly injury. He already has hints of that power, although he doesn't seem to completely realize it at first. 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