Comments on: Who is Brooke? http://brookeshelf.wordpress.com Children's Literature of Yesterday & Today: Updated on Weekends Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:18:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Sharon D. Silverman http://brookeshelf.wordpress.com/about/#comment-158 Sharon D. Silverman Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:29:23 +0000 #comment-158 Dear Brooke, Just came across your website when I was looking for books to read aloud to my two boys, 9 and 6. I had The Loner read aloud to me by my third grade teacher, Ms. Crail (isn't it funny how you can remember the names of your teachers in elementary school, but not of people that you may see now in your recent, everyday life), and I loved that book so much I bought it and kept it to read to my own children someday. I actually have already read that very book that I purchased back then so many years ago to my boys last year, which they loved too. Your website and blog are wonderful. I've been a huge reader for most of my life, with periods of drought, the longest when I slept in the same room as my husband for 10 years. He couldn't stand the sound of my active mind and the pages turning. I'm thinking of starting my own blog about my new business, Dans Le Jardin L.L.C., and my demonstration garden. I have to get my website up and running first, though, since the business is still fairly new. Last summer, I left the life of real estate transactional attorney in San Francisco for 17-plus years and transformed myself into a landscape designer, who provides the full range of gardening services, including design, installation and maintenance to my local community. I live in the tiny, little-known city of Kensington adjacent to Berkeley, California. From a monetary standpoint, the change of career is as crazy as it sounds, but I have been an avid gardener for over 20 years, and everyone who came to my house and didn't know what I did for a living (mostly the parents of my kids' friends) just assumed I was a landscaper and would be asking me all sorts of gardening advice, which is definitely a lot better than being asked for legal advice. Anyway, I'm going through an extremely stressful part of my life (blah, blah, blah) and have recently remembered that reading is such a wonderful and necessary escape. Take care, Sharon Dear Brooke,

Just came across your website when I was looking for books to read aloud to my two boys, 9 and 6. I had The Loner read aloud to me by my third grade teacher, Ms. Crail (isn’t it funny how you can remember the names of your teachers in elementary school, but not of people that you may see now in your recent, everyday life), and I loved that book so much I bought it and kept it to read to my own children someday. I actually have already read that very book that I purchased back then so many years ago to my boys last year, which they loved too.

Your website and blog are wonderful. I’ve been a huge reader for most of my life, with periods of drought, the longest when I slept in the same room as my husband for 10 years. He couldn’t stand the sound of my active mind and the pages turning.

I’m thinking of starting my own blog about my new business, Dans Le Jardin L.L.C., and my demonstration garden. I have to get my website up and running first, though, since the business is still fairly new.

Last summer, I left the life of real estate transactional attorney in San Francisco for 17-plus years and transformed myself into a landscape designer, who provides the full range of gardening services, including design, installation and maintenance to my local community. I live in the tiny, little-known city of Kensington adjacent to Berkeley, California. From a monetary standpoint, the change of career is as crazy as it sounds, but I have been an avid gardener for over 20 years, and everyone who came to my house and didn’t know what I did for a living (mostly the parents of my kids’ friends) just assumed I was a landscaper and would be asking me all sorts of gardening advice, which is definitely a lot better than being asked for legal advice.

Anyway, I’m going through an extremely stressful part of my life (blah, blah, blah) and have recently remembered that reading is such a wonderful and necessary escape.

Take care,

Sharon

]]> By: Cathy http://brookeshelf.wordpress.com/about/#comment-149 Cathy Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:17:51 +0000 #comment-149 You have received a Kind Heart award from the <a href="http://www.sfcb.org/teacher-features/" rel="nofollow">Teacher Features</a> blog of the San Francisco Center for the Book. Kudos! You have received a Kind Heart award from the Teacher Features blog of the San Francisco Center for the Book.

Kudos!

]]> By: brookeshelf http://brookeshelf.wordpress.com/about/#comment-12 brookeshelf Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:08:54 +0000 #comment-12 Hmm. Thanks, Kerry! I'll get Louisiana's Song back on my library queue. Hmm. Thanks, Kerry! I’ll get Louisiana’s Song back on my library queue.

]]> By: Kerry Madden http://brookeshelf.wordpress.com/about/#comment-9 Kerry Madden Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:41:45 +0000 #comment-9 Dear Brooke, I saw your comment on "7 Impossible Things" from a friend on a list-serve who gave me a nudge to answer you. Of course, since I am the author of LOUISIANA'S SONG, I am biased, but I do feel like it's a stand-alone too. In each book, Livy Two is the storyteller, but I also really try to focus one on character in this huge Smoky Mountain family. It's "Gentle" in Gentle's Holler, and "Louise" in Louisiana's Song and "Jessie, the mother" in Jessie's Mountain. Anyway, I'm so glad to know about your site now. Thanks for commenting. All best Kerry Madden Dear Brooke,
I saw your comment on “7 Impossible Things” from a friend on a list-serve who gave me a nudge to answer you. Of course, since I am the author of LOUISIANA’S SONG, I am biased, but I do feel like it’s a stand-alone too. In each book, Livy Two is the storyteller, but I also really try to focus one on character in this huge Smoky Mountain family. It’s “Gentle” in Gentle’s Holler, and “Louise” in Louisiana’s Song and “Jessie, the mother” in Jessie’s Mountain. Anyway, I’m so glad to know about your site now. Thanks for commenting.

All best
Kerry Madden

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