Comments on: The Golden Name Day – Vintage Kidlit Summer Week #11

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 04:15:12 +0000

Visited your website after hearing your interview on Read Aloud Revival. I love that the Golden Name Day was part of your challenge last summer. I read this aloud to my kids several years ago and we loved it! (I had to borrow it from interlibrary loan as I could not find an affordable copy at that time). I found reasonably priced copies of books 2 and 3 and kept my eyes open for a used copy of the first. I was utterly in shock when I found a copy for 50 cents at a library bookshop!! That was a happy day!

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:32:45 +0000

I chose “A Gathering Of Days”. It is set in the 1830s. The book stars Catherine Cabot Hall. Catherine lives with her father and younger sisiter Mary Martha[Matty]. Cassie Shipman is Catherine’s best friend. Along with Cassies’s brother Asa they help a runaway slave escape to Canada. Catherine’s father remarries. Sadly Cassie gets sick and dies.
Marilyn

By: Marion

Marion — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:22:54 +0000

My pic is “A Gathering Of Days” A new England Girls Journal by Joan W Blos
Catherine lives in New Hampshire with her father and younger sister Mary Martha. Their closest neighbors are the Shipman family who they celebrate with for the holidays, Dad eventually marries a woman from Boston who has a son Daniel Catherine’s age. Life is hard with the numerous chores but all survive. At the end of the book Catherine is writing to her granddaughter Catherine who has the diary given to her by her grandmother.
Marion