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Post by greer on May 11, 2006 17:48:25 GMT -5
Maybe the BSC was the cause of all this community togetherness. They set up so many things for the kids to do together: pet shows, talent shows, go-kart races, etc.
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Post by wanderingfrog on May 22, 2006 21:19:45 GMT -5
I'm reading Mallory and the Dream Horse right now (I know, snooore, but I'm going in order!) and the Pike kids go over to Nina and Eleanor Marshall's house to sign them up for the talent show. Nina nad Eleanor are 4 and 2!! And here's 9 y/o Vanessa, 8 y/o Nicky, 7 y/o Margo, and 5 y/o Claire recruiting them and hanging out with them in the backyard. It's random and weird. I played with neighbour kids of a variety of ages, but I sure wasn't playing with two-year-olds when I was nine. That's pretty random. I know Claire and Nina are practically the same age, but the rest of that is pretty random. Speaking of Nina Marshall, I always thought it was weird that as a random subplot in one of the books, she suddenly developed an obsessive attachment to a blanket we never saw before in the series. Like Linus, only completely out of nowhere.
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Post by ktag on May 22, 2006 21:55:02 GMT -5
Speaking of Nina Marshall, I always thought it was weird that as a random subplot in one of the books, she suddenly developed an obsessive attachment to a blanket we never saw before in the series. Like Linus, only completely out of nowhere. Ooh, does it go in the dryer?? I swear I remember the randomest things from books. I didn't even know I'd read this book.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 22, 2006 22:41:14 GMT -5
She dragged around what sounded like a gigantic blanket and got made fun of by her classmates. It totally fell apart in the dryer and then she stuck chunks of it in her pockets, shoes, etc. so that she'd still have her blankie with her but wouldn't be teased.
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Post by inge on May 23, 2006 12:56:25 GMT -5
I would've gotten SO upset if someone tore my blanket into pieces (Ok, I didn't actually have one, I had two teddies I carries around everywhere and my classmates accepted it) Really, the 'this one goes in your pocket! And this one goes in your purse!' (seriously, do I remember this correct, is there a purse for a four year old?) would only upset me more and more. If I was the babysitter, I would've waited for the mom to come home to handle it, instead of being the evil babysitter forever, as one would be inreal life, not in BSC land of course.
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Post by ktag on May 23, 2006 15:55:57 GMT -5
Yep, that's the one I was thinking of. How does that even happen anyway? What's the blanket made out of, cotton candy? Anyway, I remember thinking it was funny that she just stuck a piece in her overall pocket or something. I would imagine a blanket would lose its comfort if you can't wrap it around yourself, but oh well.
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Post by macca on May 24, 2006 5:26:23 GMT -5
ITA! The tearing-blankie-into-pieces solution was terrible.
I thought it was weird too, but I guess if it had been washed and tumble-dried so many times, it would eventually fall apart.
Which book was it again?!
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Post by wanderingfrog on May 24, 2006 9:35:42 GMT -5
I would've gotten SO upset if someone tore my blanket into pieces (Ok, I didn't actually have one, I had two teddies I carries around everywhere and my classmates accepted it) Really, the 'this one goes in your pocket! And this one goes in your purse!' (seriously, do I remember this correct, is there a purse for a four year old?) would only upset me more and more. I'm 26, and I would STILL freak out if a) my baby blanket ripped in the dryer and b) somebody decided that would make it okay to rip it into smaller pieces, because they thought this would make me "happy." I'd probably hurt them.
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Post by Amalia on May 25, 2006 3:08:58 GMT -5
I thought it was weird too, but I guess if it had been washed and tumble-dried so many times, it would eventually fall apart. Which book was it again?! I guess we're supposed to believe that it had been damaged so much due to being dragged over so many abrasive surfaces that it eventually wore out the fabric so much that it was able to get torn up like that in the dryer?
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Post by inge on May 25, 2006 8:16:15 GMT -5
I think the target age was not expected to know much about laundry business, and therefore believed it could happen just like that.
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Post by wanderingfrog on May 25, 2006 20:56:27 GMT -5
It was driving me crazy not knowing what book this was in, so I looked it up in the CG. It was in #54 Mallory and the Dream Horse, apparently.
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Post by lilafowler on Jun 9, 2006 17:52:48 GMT -5
I thought that was weird, too! There's one book where Jessi goes to some dance, and whoever narrated the book said her date was "one of the few black boys at SMS" even though we know she's the only black student in the sixth grade. But when Claudia gets sent back to the seventh grade, they make a huge deal of the gigantic gap between the grades at SMS. So Jessi crosses the ~grade barrier~ just to ensure that she dates within her race? Nice message, Scholastic!
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Post by macca on Jun 11, 2006 20:06:07 GMT -5
^ Strange for books as PC as the BSC, really. But does it maybe reflect the norms in the US? I know over here it's pretty unusual to see interracial couples, not unheard of obviously, but still a little bit unusual.
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Post by Amalia on Jun 12, 2006 1:11:35 GMT -5
^ I only know for the Los Angeles area, but to see interracial couples is not that unusual here.
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Post by greer on Jun 12, 2006 19:40:09 GMT -5
^I think in the late 80s and early 90s it was unusual, but not so anymore.
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