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January 05, 2007
Hattie Big Time
Hattie's good friends have been emailing me daily to update me on her awards status. This reduces me to a mass of quivering buffalo berry jelly but no one seems to mind except me.
Her latest honor is that she is a finalist for a Cybil Award, young adult fiction. On the same list as The Book Thief -- can you believe it? My hope is that she'll get Miss Congeniality and that The Donald will overlook the fact that she's been square-dancing after hours in NYC.
In the Hattie frame of mind, MotherReader challenged her readers about the "God" issue. It seems she's noticed that no reviewer has commented on the faith references in Hattie. Aunt Ivy forced me to post a reply on MotherReader's blog but it's left my insides all wobbly. The Pope is the one who writes about such things; not me.
In the meantime, I am wrestling with whether or not I should join the team from my church to return to the South to help with Katrina clean-up. Does it boggle anyone else's mind that in the good old US of A we are STILL rebuilding, two years after the fact?
The logical part of me says - you have got to be kidding. You don't have time to go to Houma, Louisiana. My heart, of course, asks when do we leave?
February 13th, in case you want to know. If you want to make a donation, you can send it to our church, Inglewood Presbyterian. Any amount will help.
Re: MotherReader's discussion: what does it mean to be human without faith? I, for one, have absolutely no idea.
Posted by kirby at January 5, 2007 09:12 PM
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Great to meet a fellow Presbyterian in the children's literature world ... Can't wait to read Hattie Big Sky and promote it wildly!
Posted by: Mitali Perkins at January 9, 2007 07:40 PM