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Eddie finds a list of special days to celebrate and adventures escalate from there.Tags
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It just gets tiresome how very lucky these children are. They're always leaving important stuff around, and it gets lost or thrown out, and then magically retrieved again. Did Haywood think that her child readers would learn to take care of their stuff better, knowing that they couldn't count on such luck?
And this was written in 1971... I was 8 years old then. We were absolutely forbidden to use the word 'stupid' and certainly my mom would have been shocked that Eddie's mom used it. And besides, it was Eddie, not Tookey, who was stupid.
I like Haywood's older style of illustrations better. I guess we naturally tend to like better what we see first, though.
Btw, if you want a "happenings" calendar of your own, just go to show more target="_top">https://nationaldaycalendar.com/ (you can buy a calendar, search the site, or just sign up for the daily newsletter). show less
And this was written in 1971... I was 8 years old then. We were absolutely forbidden to use the word 'stupid' and certainly my mom would have been shocked that Eddie's mom used it. And besides, it was Eddie, not Tookey, who was stupid.
I like Haywood's older style of illustrations better. I guess we naturally tend to like better what we see first, though.
Btw, if you want a "happenings" calendar of your own, just go to show more target="_top">https://nationaldaycalendar.com/ (you can buy a calendar, search the site, or just sign up for the daily newsletter). show less
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Author and illustrator Carolyn Haywood was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 3, 1898. She graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls and the Philadelphia Normal School in 1922. After teaching one year at the Friends Central School, she received a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While there, she studied show more portrait painting for three years, spent one year studying in Europe, and came back to study illustration. Her first children's book, When I Grow Up, was published in 1931. She is best known for her books in the Betsy and Eddie series. The first book, B Is for Betsy, was published in 1939. Her other works include Snowbound with Betsy, Hello, Star, and Eddie's Friend, Boddles. Besides writing and illustrating her own books, she also painted children's portraits and painted murals in banks and schools in the Philadelphia area. She received the distinction of a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania in 1969 and received the Pennsylvania Librarians Outstanding Pennsylvania Author Award in 1970. She stopped illustrating her own books in the 1970's, but started writing adult books including Book of Honor, a collection of biographies of famous Pennsylvanian women. She died of a stroke on January 11, 1990 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Eddie's Happenings
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books
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- 813.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999 1945-1999
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- PZ7 .H31496 .E — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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