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Post by Honeybee on Sept 7, 2014 21:10:51 GMT -5
Claudia cracks me up. Oh my goodness, there's no baby pictures of me. I must be adopted it. Like it, when Claudia was tutoring with Emily Michelle. So cute, when Emily Michelle answer the phone saying Heyyo.
One time, I made chocolate chip cookies from scratch, by remembering seeing my mom baking them all the time. I was like 12 or 13 at the time. I didn't bake them. I just ate the cookie dough. Not all in one day. I'll eat some. Put it in the fridge, ate some other time. Now, they're saying, it's not safe to eat cookie dough or cake batter. I'll take a taste. See, how it tastes.
My mom always watch me & my older sister. Sometimes, one of our grandparents or our older cousin, watching us, while our parents went out, somewheres. I don't think, we had baby-sitter. Most of the time, if our parents going to the mall, grocery store, or any other public place. We went with them. Unless, they went it was like adults only. But, that was rare for my parents do those things back then.
My 3rd niece, she's going to kindergarten full time. I never heard of full time. Always heard, part time. Like in the morning or afternoons. Things has change over the years, when I around her age.
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Post by candykane on Sept 10, 2014 16:13:43 GMT -5
I wonder why Claudia had never seen any pictures of young Mimi before this book (I'm assuming she did not, because she was so surprised to hear how much she resembled Mimi, as if she'd never seen any old pictures of her). With the close relationship they had, I can imagine them looking at old pictures together and Mimi telling her all kinds of family stories.
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Post by zoar3 on Sept 10, 2014 16:24:08 GMT -5
^I really hope Claudia and Mimi did do that! I would also hope Rioko would want her daughters to know their Grandfather and share some memory of him. I have always wished we had learned something about Mimi's husband, even his name. I can understand it may have been the decision of Ann and Co to not give a whole lot of detail to extended family members because that would be hard to keep track of and possibly take away from the focus on the girls themselves, but I will always wish they had even a little more.
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Natasha
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Post by Natasha on Sept 22, 2014 6:32:38 GMT -5
I loved all the stuff with Emily Michelle. It was so cute when Janine gave her the balloon. There was another example where Janine was really good with kids-the one with Corrine in Claudia And The Sad Goodbye.
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Natasha
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Post by Natasha on Sept 22, 2014 6:34:16 GMT -5
Whenever I first picked up this book, I thought Ann M Martin was going to make Claudia be adopted, and then Emily would be her little sister. Hahaha, that would've actually been more interesting than the actual book which I thought was lame ;D. That would have been a really good twist
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Post by bscfan1997 on Oct 11, 2015 1:59:03 GMT -5
I'm rereading the Great Search right now. Claudia is freaking hilarious. "Oh, no, there's no baby pics of me. I'm adopted!" Seriously, though, it's an enjoyable read. And I loved it when Claudia tutored Emily. Who knew Claudia Kishi would be a tutor? At least she's smart enough to identify colors and shapes, heh heh. (Off topic, but my iPad autocorrected nice tofu)
Also, has anybody ever read that book by Lois Lowry. Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye. I haven't, but I'm curious about it....
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Post by stolenbooks on Oct 14, 2015 0:47:21 GMT -5
I always thought this book was so odd. I woild've just flat out asked my parents. But everything in BSC land must be a secret.
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Post by bscfan1997 on Oct 14, 2015 18:12:55 GMT -5
I always thought this book was so odd. I woild've just flat out asked my parents. But everything in BSC land must be a secret. True. They must jump into conclusions and do crazy things. Then again, if she did flat out ask them, there wouldn't be a story...
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Post by booboobrewer on Oct 15, 2015 13:50:09 GMT -5
Haha. If I discovered a shortage of baby pictures of me I would be miffed and say straight to my mom. "So, what's the deal?" I think Claudia said she would have felt more comfortable asking Mimi?
I grew up like Claud -- one older sister -- and there were tons of pictures of us together and separate. I don't think it would have been hard for the Kishis to give them equal photo time!
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Post by bscfan1997 on Oct 15, 2015 17:53:02 GMT -5
However, I do understand that parents are usually more involved and excited with their first child. I am the oldest, and truthfully, there are the most baby pictures of me than my three younger siblings. I have a full baby book and a baby calendar where my milestones were written down, and several albums of my pics of me leading up till age 5.
With my little sister, the second child born, she has a half filled baby book and about one or two albums filled with her pictures only leading up to age 2 or 3.
With my other little sister, third in line, there are only two pages filled in her baby book and only one album.
And my little brother, last of all, and the only boy, he doesn't have a baby book, but there's an entire FaceBook photo album dedicated to him. Maybe it's 'cause he's the only boy? IDK.
So with Janine having more pics does ring quite true...
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Post by Enigma on Dec 9, 2015 23:58:52 GMT -5
I remember liking this book a lot because of both the main plot (how Claudia searches for her 'adoptive parents' and the side plot of how "bad student Claudia" excels at tutoring Emily.
Now here are two things that stand out now looking back as an adult 1)The 'tutoring" of shapes, colors, numbers were totally developmentally inappropriate for a 2 year old, especially a newly adopted one. Shouldn't they work on her language/communication skills first? It also stated that the other 2 year olds could draw recognizable pictures when in reality, most kids won't do that until around 4 or 5. 2) How Claudia called random families all over the country asking for all their details saying she was doing a "family tree" project. Even in the early 1990s, that would have been creepy to get calls from a stranger teen girls voice asking for all the family details; wouldn't most of them just hung up?
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Post by Natasha on May 17, 2016 22:41:57 GMT -5
I liked this one but thought it was silly...Claudia this she's adopted because she's different? And it's so obvious she's jealous of Janine.
Im very different from my own sister but it doesn't mean I'm adopted.
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Post by Kylie90210 on May 20, 2016 17:06:32 GMT -5
I think it's easy for some siblings who feel inferior to their sibling to fantasise about being adopted, because they're looking for some justification as to why they're 'not as good'? In Clauds case, she was different but felt that wasn't as good, of course Janine felt the same way (as often happens) but isn't the fantasising type
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Post by oldhickory on Feb 11, 2019 10:57:19 GMT -5
I visited my mom's house this weekend, and I decided to read this book again after looking through a photo album with my husband. What the Kishis said is definitely true - there were probably a couple hundred photos of me, and hardly any with my sister (two years younger). And I don't think she had any solo pictures in that album either.
One thing I noticed is that the parents Claudia called were way too trusting. Nowadays there isn't a parent on earth who would give their kid's name, age, and school to a random caller on the phone.
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Post by LovelyDay on Feb 11, 2019 15:12:37 GMT -5
I can’t believe those parents would be that stupid to give out information about their child! There are many photo albums of me and my siblings. There are 4 of us, and each of us basicallly have an album all to ourselves with our baby pictures.
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