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Post by Honeybee on Sept 28, 2014 23:02:20 GMT -5
^Wasn't Holly's (from Snowbound at Jessi's Dance School) named Caboose? Maybe Station Wagon and he are friends as are their human owners? I'm ETA having checked page 122 of Snowbound. Caboose is Holly's doll. Tattoo is her dog. I had the right vehicle just wrong namesake. I probably have trains on my mind having just read the scene in Abby and the Notorious Neighbor where Adam Pike wants to name the triplets' go cart team, "The Pike express," and Jordan says that sounds too much like a train--it does, but still was a cute name. I haven't read snowbound in long time. So, I don't remember that part of the book. I'm waiting until gets closer to winter time, to read snowbound.
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 9, 2014 1:13:07 GMT -5
I weeded today so I wanted to read about Karen weeding as part of the 3Ms odd job business Some thoughts: It would have been neat if the toy store they visited at the mall was Toy Town, not Toy Palace. Palace sounds grander, wonder why Stacey didn't choose to work there instead Miss Donovan lives in Watson's neighborhood. Wonder how old she is? Do Shannon and Astrid see Station Wagon on their walks? I like Miss D, too bad she is not mentioned more as a neighbor. "Hannie had been hiding the sock inside a couch cushion in the living room. She said no one would ever find it there." I think I might feel if I was sitting on a sock full of coins? I LOVE how Watson runs into the store along with the girls to buy the dolls. lol
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Post by zoar3 on Nov 10, 2014 18:40:35 GMT -5
^Yay, I remembered where this post of yours was, Boo Boo. I have been meaning to say forever that Dollar Tree sells very small sock coin purses and I always think of the 3M's hiding their money in (a real) sock. I agree about the toy store especially had Stacey's future boss April Frenning worked there. Anytime I do read Karen's Candy where Karen helps Leah Frenning make an elf costume, I always wonder if she was related to AF, maybe her husband's brother's daughter. I have noticed with LS there are families in the Big House neighborhood that are one or few time only. The Dagers who Karen and Emily catch the pox from and the kids in Karen's School, Keith and Callie, who I believe are mentioned in other LS books. In the Little House neighborhood are Kathryn and Willie and Nancy and Bobby, none of whom (also none of the KIMCC or Andrew's preschool are) sat for by the BSC. I would loved at least a couple BSC book scenes with such characters. My long in coming point, is it sounds like Miss Donovan and also the neighbor Karen meets in Karen's Paper Route, the lady who kindly gave Karen and Kristy treats, are more one book mentions, pets included. I wonder if Ann and the other writers ever did consider merging a little more the two series, well three with KIMCC.
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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 11, 2014 11:38:55 GMT -5
It would have been good if they did.
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 11, 2014 13:20:33 GMT -5
There were also the kids that Kristy tried to recruit for her team in Sea City. Phil Fields and Moon Pinckney etc. that live in her neighborhood. We only saw them in that one book. These kids must have older sitters or nannies
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Post by livvy on Nov 9, 2022 3:20:34 GMT -5
This is one of my favourites.
I love the idea of an odd job service. It reminds me of the one Elizabeth and Jessica started in SVT Jessica and the Money Mix-Up.
Mrs Porter is always perfectly nice to Karen and knows her pretty well too, but still gets called a witch. Poor old Mrs Porter.
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Post by livvy on Nov 9, 2022 3:21:38 GMT -5
Ann wrote the LS books up to a certain point...hmm...a lot of them, anyway. Maybe Cartwheel was ghostwritten, though, I'm not sure. It is. If you look at the front Ann has acknowledged the ghost writer for her help with the book.
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Post by oldhickory on Nov 10, 2022 11:44:10 GMT -5
Karen is a bully to Mrs. Porter. She got away with a lot because she was creative and "she just has a big imagination" but she needed boundaries. I like how Netflix Esme handled the witch rumor.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 28, 2024 19:07:06 GMT -5
There is a ton of debate in this thread about whether or not Ann wrote this book. The dedication doesn’t thank anyone for helping with the book, which is supposed to be the sign that it was ghostwritten. It is “for Grace Polywoda.” (“Polywoda” sounds like something Karen would name her doll.)
This was published in June 1992. The 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics was when I became exposed to and then obsessed with gymnastics. (Watching only, Shannon Miller Forever ❤) I think that cartwheels have to do with upper body strength, so maybe Karen should have done some pushups once in a while.
Hannie’s piggy bank was funny. It was a big red mouth. When they fed it coins it said “Mmm. That was yummy! Please feed me again!” When she emptied it out, it said “Don’t forget to feed me soon!” I pictured an inappropriately sexual woman’s voice, lol, but I’m sure it was like Pee Wee Herman.
Rich people have huge garages. They’re usually at least 3-car and are like airline hangers. Karen said that their garage was so cluttered that they couldn’t park any cars in it. They didn’t say what all the junk was except for a flat football and Watson’s mounted fish head. Just the head. I’ve never heard of not mounting the entire fish, lol.
I cringed that Hannie literally brought the sock full of money to the mall. That meant that the cashier had to stand there and count out nearly $45 of loose change and probably nothing bigger than a $1 bill.
The little chapter with Morbidda was cute and surprising. Morbidda had been a competitive figure skater! She knew so much about Karen’s life. Some of it was stuff that she could have observed as a neighbor, but some of it was stuff that someone would have had to have told her. She and Watson must have chit chatted a lot while they worked in their respective gardens.
Poor Miss Donovan. She was just minding her business. Then Karen showed up at her door and started manically doing cartwheels in her living room.
The dolls sounded like American Girl dolls. When the girls first saw them, they said that there was one that looked like each one of them. At the end they said that they all got the exact same doll. So, I’m wondering which doll that they chose. It would be weird if they all got a doll that looked like just one of them. Did they pick one that looked like none of them?
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 28, 2024 22:39:23 GMT -5
There is a ton of debate in this thread about whether or not Ann wrote this book. The dedication doesn’t thank anyone for helping with the book, which is supposed to be the sign that it was ghostwritten. It is “for Grace Polywoda.” That makes sense after being reminded of the lines you quoted in the funny moments thread. All the best snark was Ann-written. She’s quirky.
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