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Post by virgoscorpio on May 6, 2012 12:30:29 GMT -5
And really, how hard is it to make a maypole? Mrs. Springer probably made it herself. Since 2 was made in total, she's probably Stoneybook's expect maypole maker!
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Post by supprazz on May 8, 2012 4:44:53 GMT -5
Add the maypole Karen had in the Claudia and the Missing Jewels to the list, Natalie clearly surpassed Karen's doll hospital business LOL
How could the dad have thrown out the maypole? Maybe Natalie got anxiety about the project and Karen, she didn't sound happy when Karen phoned her the night before about finding Pudding, and she claimed that she realized in the morning the Maypole was thrown out.
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Post by virgoscorpio on May 8, 2012 16:53:41 GMT -5
I guess if it was wrapped in a garbage bag, it could have been easily mistaken as trash. Natalie's family was described as being as droopy as she is, in Karen's Kite, so I can see it happening.
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Post by supprazz on May 9, 2012 2:40:44 GMT -5
It was wrapped in gold foil.
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Post by zoar3 on Aug 12, 2013 17:26:01 GMT -5
I could understand if it was a small pole or even one made out of cardboard. Natalie used an actual broomstick! Even if it was in a garbage bag and assuming Mr. Springer truly had no clue Natalie was making it, wouldn't he have wondered what the heck he was throwing out and looked? I wish we had gotten to read Karen's interview with Mr. Kelly or at least his coming to dinner at the Little House. I did think it was sweet how Watson thanked Mr. Kelly for fixing his toy fire truck (when Watson was a little boy). Made me think that this might have made a better "Big House" story so we could have learned more about Watson. Maybe he got the engine from his Aunt Faith and Uncle Pierson (Shadow Lake). I was glad Lisa and Seth allowed Hyacynthia to be played with and cared for instead of simply displayed. I know she was very expensive and fragile but Karen was also only 7. What I wondered most about in "Karen's Doll," was why Nancy's parents never even casually mentioned Hyacynthia to Lisa or Seth. I also thought and maybe this is just me, it was rather mean of Lisa to say that two weeks without Hyacythnia would "teach Karen to be more careful." That was when Karen had lied and said the doll was at her Dad's. Even if it truly was at Watson's, it would have made sense for Watson to have called and asked if Karen would like him to bring it over, not like he lived far away. I also thought it was very strange that since Karen and Nancy are always over at each other's houses and sometimes car-pool to and from school, Hyacynthia never came up in comversation with Lisa while the doll "was at Watson's." (Nancy's). And Nancy's parents never acknowledged the gift either! My favorite thing about both doll books is thinking of a friend who did enjoy dolls and also of my Grandma. I have shared that I have never been into dolls. I think my Grandma may have wished I had been if nothing else so she could have shared in its care. I re-read both of these LS "doll books" today because Benjy, a special stuffed friend my Grandma gave me to me, needs an "operation." It made me smile and remember all the many times my Grandma was "Mr. Kelly" for me.
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Post by supprazz on Aug 20, 2013 19:20:23 GMT -5
I wanted to say it must have been a very poorly made maypole for Natalie's dad to have thrown it out, but I love the idea of Natalie outdoing Karen way too much LOL
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Post by Honeybee on Mar 20, 2022 23:22:52 GMT -5
I think I read this once. So I borrowed the book again. I liked it, when Mr. Kelly fixed the dolls and the stuff animals.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Mar 21, 2022 10:59:06 GMT -5
I liked this one! Was this the one where Karen broke Natalie's doll by yanking all the hair out? And Nancy and Hannie broke Hyacynthia? God, they were super careless with her.
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Post by sparklymouse on Apr 11, 2024 13:35:52 GMT -5
I just never liked dolls except for my Cabbage Patch Kid and a few Barbies. Those girls were in a room with so many eyeballs, lol. I would have been crushed if I was Karen with Hyacynthia. I think not being there when it happened would have made it worse for me, but she never seemed angry with Hannie and Nancy. Natalie’s doll sounded cheap and defective. The box said that the arm could pop off, so there must have been a reason for that. Karen really didn’t touch the hair that roughly and it pulled all the way out?! The picture looks like it would bite you when the lights go out. Seth pulled out the Yellow Pages to find a toy repairman. The girls checked out 3 books and copied the May Day section in the encyclopedia to research their report. Yep, that is EXACTLY how pretty much every report that I ever wrote was written. I liked the part where Natalie introduced Pudding to Karen. Karen shook her detached hand. Natalie got pissy and was like DON’T MAKE A JOKE OUT OF THIS SITUATION. Karen wore her medical handkerchief exactly like people did with their Covid masks with their noses not covered at all. Pudding, yikes. Hannie said that Hyacynthia needed the three Rs. Rest, Relaxation and she didn’t know the last. Karen said Raisins. 🙁 I knew a little about May Day at that age. Really just the fun stuff that Karen liked. We usually made May Day baskets in school. I think there was a part in a Ramona book about a Maypole. It was a good holiday choice for the girls to pick for their report. I thought it was horrible that Karen sent Lisa off to the hospital with a bunch of dirty old toys. The poor old man just had a heart attack, and then he went out of his way to fix all of the crap for free. I think they’re in Nancy’s bedroom on the cover. It looks like a senior citizen’s. I’m not feeling the wall sconce with the lampshade that matches the wallpaper. Or those pictures that are SO badly spaced and uneven. Or the cold bare wooden floor with no area rug or anything. She needs a visit from HGTV.
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Post by oldhickory on Apr 12, 2024 9:37:04 GMT -5
May Day wasn't a thing for me. I know the date and that's about it. I think Stoneybrook has a lot of traditional customs because they're in New England and because Ann grew up in a really old, traditional town where a lot of people are probably descendants of settlers. [Wikipedia says Princeton was, in the 1690s when Europeans first came, part of a nearby place called Stoney Brook! That must be where she got the name.]
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Post by sparklymouse on Apr 12, 2024 20:03:43 GMT -5
Karen and Natalie had to teach the rest of the class about May Day, so it wasn't really a Stoneybrook thing. Did Lucy and Ethel ever dance around a Maypole? I don't know. I used to live across the street from an elementary school. Every May Day the kids walked around the neighborhood and put a marigold planted into a milk carton on everyone's front door.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Apr 14, 2024 9:42:28 GMT -5
I'm also surprised Karen wasn't furious with Nancy and Hannie for breaking Hyacynthia. I think she was just so upset she didn't resort to anger. At least both girls paid for her repairs
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