Happy New Year’s Day!smadafJanuary 1 2008, 17:03:27 UTC
Maybe they told us because they figured it was a ‘controlled’ way of telling-rather than having us find out in disparate odd ways and maybe some of us feeling distraught, being made fun of for it, &c. (Now that you mention it and I think of it, that ‘technique’ reminds me of things mentioned here (tho the main kids being so concerned about Mr. Rogers’s death probably would be much younger than sixth-graders).
I didn’t really have any reaction to his death. I suppose that was because his death would do nothing to stop the awesomeness of his books.
I think I had a weird concept of time when I was a child. I’d see Leave It to Beaver, for example, and, though I knew it was from decades before, I didn’t really think of it as that different from the world of the mid and late ’80s. That’s probably why, for example, I thought teenagers still wore suits and evening gowns when they went on dates. I think I also didn’t ever think about the fact that authors could produce new books, that their ‘bibliographies’ had to ‘occur’ over time. I’m not sure when I thought Dr. Seuss books were written; I guess I thought of them as being from the ’70s and ’80s and maybe ’60s. I’m sure I never thought of how old or young he might be. It’s still strange to think that some of his books are from the ’30s: his style, in words and pictures, seems so timeless. I guess some kids, these days, might be mystified by drawings of phones with cords and rotary dials, tabletop radios from the ’40s, &c. Or maybe not. Part of me fears that a smaller and smaller percentage of people will be familiar with his books as the years go bye-and it’s great to think that you, who were born at the very end of his life, still had Dr. Seuss books and love them/him.
Wikipedia says one of his wives committed suicide: how crappy. :( Also, the article on I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! (published in ’87!) says he died of mouth cancer; I wonder whether he smoked (cigars?). List of his books, with publication years.
Your comment is the first I’ve ever heard of Tomie dePaola or any of his books. Hihi! He does have such a round face! I want to overlook the fact that he appeared several times on Barney & Friends and read some of his books. I’m always fascinated to see what kind of books, TV, &c., children encounter and enjoy. And I like the illustration style on his book covers. :)
(Sorry about getting so long with the comment again.)
I didn’t really have any reaction to his death. I suppose that was because his death would do nothing to stop the awesomeness of his books.
I think I had a weird concept of time when I was a child. I’d see Leave It to Beaver, for example, and, though I knew it was from decades before, I didn’t really think of it as that different from the world of the mid and late ’80s. That’s probably why, for example, I thought teenagers still wore suits and evening gowns when they went on dates. I think I also didn’t ever think about the fact that authors could produce new books, that their ‘bibliographies’ had to ‘occur’ over time. I’m not sure when I thought Dr. Seuss books were written; I guess I thought of them as being from the ’70s and ’80s and maybe ’60s. I’m sure I never thought of how old or young he might be. It’s still strange to think that some of his books are from the ’30s: his style, in words and pictures, seems so timeless. I guess some kids, these days, might be mystified by drawings of phones with cords and rotary dials, tabletop radios from the ’40s, &c. Or maybe not. Part of me fears that a smaller and smaller percentage of people will be familiar with his books as the years go bye-and it’s great to think that you, who were born at the very end of his life, still had Dr. Seuss books and love them/him.
Wikipedia says one of his wives committed suicide: how crappy. :( Also, the article on I Am NOT Going to Get Up Today! (published in ’87!) says he died of mouth cancer; I wonder whether he smoked (cigars?). List of his books, with publication years.
Your comment is the first I’ve ever heard of Tomie dePaola or any of his books. Hihi! He does have such a round face! I want to overlook the fact that he appeared several times on Barney & Friends and read some of his books. I’m always fascinated to see what kind of books, TV, &c., children encounter and enjoy. And I like the illustration style on his book covers. :)
(Sorry about getting so long with the comment again.)
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Also, missing “)” at end of first paragraph.
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