Kids in Ms. Colman's Class #4 - Second Grade Baby

[glitterberrys]

With a title like that, you know this is going to be Natalie's book. Sigh. (Also, does the title remind anyone else of that book called Fourth Grade Rats? First grade babies/second grade cats/third grade angels/fourth grade RATS!!! No? No one remembers that but me, huh?)

The dedication reads This book is for Kate Gibbel. No further detail is

Comments

[kakeochi_umai]

Nat, honey, I bet even Karen and Leslie have name tapes in their clothes, but you just don't notice because NAME TAPES GO ON THE INSIDE. I'd question the need for and safety of putting her address on it, though.

Natalie feels guilty at the though of undoing all her mother's hard work, because she knows she was trying to be helpful. Again, THIS IS NOT A BABYISH CHILD. This is an awesome, empathetic child who gets picked on for stupid reasons like droopy socks.
I love that the empathetic kid is the chew toy while the most selfish kid in the entire canon is the creator's pet.

I love that if you asked Ann if Natalie's ballet classes are at Stoneybrook Academy, she'd probably say no, and if you asked her how Natalie gets to said classes, she'd probably say that a family member takes her. And if you asked her why that family member couldn't just GIVE HER THE DAMN UNDIES IN THE FUCKING CAR, or for that matter why she needs a change of undies after ballet class when she's presumably going straight home (I can understand her sweating through them, but surely she can last through the ride home?), she'd say "Because then we wouldn't have a story."

[glitterberrys]

I seriously don't get why a change of underwear is THAT DRAMATIC a need that her mom couldn't just be like "oh well, guess she'll have to deal with the old ones after class."

The address is because, well, then we wouldn't have a story resolution.