bsclover18
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Post by bsclover18 on Jul 1, 2008 21:06:15 GMT -5
My parents always made me where it...but that was because I was terrible at rollerblading. I don't even do it anymore.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jul 10, 2008 14:27:39 GMT -5
I think I wore a helmet some of the time when I roller skated, later on, but if I did it was out of mostly habit from wearing it on a bicycle once that was required in NJ. I don't kno what the laws about skating with helments are. I'm not sure whether we'll expect dd and future dc to wear helmets when they skate (but always on bicycles, regardless of what a given state says.)
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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 21, 2008 8:39:32 GMT -5
I think Roger Jones is pretty fun, but I wish he'd shown up more in later books. he was one of those characters that you think should appear from time to time.
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 23, 2008 18:18:36 GMT -5
^You're right. Mr. Tastee disappeared. I wonder what he did in winter months. He could have turned his truck into a traveling coffee shop or something.
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Post by wenonah4th on Dec 2, 2008 6:31:33 GMT -5
He could have been a teacher or worked at a school, or some other "day job" that left him with the extra hours to runs the ice cream truck.
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Post by annieb on Dec 14, 2008 15:37:14 GMT -5
You are so right sparklymouse. That "protective gear" looked more like exercising gear to me.
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Post by wenonah4th on Dec 15, 2008 7:08:41 GMT -5
Ironically the only time I have broken a bone was skating, and like Karen, I just turned wrong- except I was on the ice, not roller-skating.
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tiff85
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Post by tiff85 on Dec 19, 2008 20:32:02 GMT -5
The protective gear that Karen was wearing did not look like it could help prevent injuries. I understood why Karen did not want to go the hospital. I dislike hospital myself. Lol at the stories that Karen made up about how she broke her wrist.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 1, 2009 13:02:44 GMT -5
Like a fishing story, they always grow!
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tiff85
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 7, 2009 16:43:06 GMT -5
The catepillar, ambulance, and police stories sounded silly, but funny. Hannie's parents looked as if they didn't believe them either. ;D
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Post by wenonah4th on Nov 23, 2010 14:47:51 GMT -5
I liked Karen's cast-signing contest. Count on her to want to one-up Ricky~!
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Post by BuckinghamAlice on Feb 28, 2011 3:40:39 GMT -5
Read this one today and it was actually pretty cute! Karen was her usual bratty self... bossing people around after she broke her wrist and lying to get attention. I'd expect nothing less. I like that everyone seemed to get along so well... the boys didn't bother her, and Kristy really wanted to help her. Seemed sweet. Mr. Tastee seemed pretty cool. The ice cream man in my neighborhood never knew any of our names. He did have the hots for my aunt, but that's a story for a different thread, lol. And Karen looked cuter than usual in the illustrations.
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scrounge
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Post by scrounge on Mar 1, 2011 2:21:04 GMT -5
Mr. Tastee was always so nice to the kids in these books. I liked how disappointed Karen was when he signed her cast and she found out his last name wasn't actually Tastee. And I agree about the illustrations. Karen looked way cuter in a lot of the first Little Sister books when they had partial page illustrations instead of all full pages, I don't know why.
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Mar 1, 2011 12:50:42 GMT -5
I think the partial-page illustrations look better because the full-page ones always had an unfinished look to them -- only parts of the picture were drawn with any detail. The partial-page illustrations don't have any areas with the sketched/outliney look. And just because -- no discussion of LS illustrations is complete without a link to my personal favorite.
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Post by wenonah4th on Mar 1, 2011 19:24:53 GMT -5
I also think the Karen-Ricky rivalry is a cute foreshadowing of their "relationship" to come.
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