I don’t know where I got this one. I’d always assumed it came to me during my time at the bookstore, but the years don’t match up.
Regardless, it’s true. I just finished reading (for the first time) Katherine Paterson’s Newbery Medal winner Bridge to Terabithia (1977).
It apparently has a permanent home on the list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books, and it now has a permanent home in my heart, as well. It stands as a testament that a book can pack a mighty wallop in a hundred pages.
i saw the movie and actually remember it. It was very good. The book is probably better.
I want to see the movie now.
While I was working on my MFA I took a class called “Death in Children’s Literature.” Bridge to Terabithia was on the syllabus. I had never read it before, but now that I have I don’t think I’ll ever forget Jess and Leslie’s story, or the magical world they created.
If you find the class title as intriguing as I did, the other books we read that semester were: Little Women (Alcott), Roller Skates (Ruth Sawyer), A Summer to Die (Lois Lowry), The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963 (Christopher Paul Curtis), Tuck Everlasting (Natalie Babbitt), and The Book Thief (Markus Zusak).
I believe the only one I’ve read on that list is Little Women. Apparently, I have more reading to do.
If I were recommending them by personal preference I would put them in this order:
The Book Thief
Tuck Everlasting
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
A Summer to Die
Roller Skates
Definitely check out the first two.
Thanks!
I’ve not read that one – perhaps I should add it to my list?
I would recommend it. I read it on my Nook, so know it could be good train reading for you.