[bksvol-discuss] Submitted another book
- From: Mayrie ReNae <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:29:43 -0700
Hello Everyone,
Here is another nonfiction book for your validating pleasure. "If
We Could Hear The Grass Grow" By Eleanor Craig. I'll paste the inside
covers of the book below. It is in rtf format, all page numbers and
chapter headings protected. I fixed as I read so it ought to be nearly
perfect. It really is a good book.
Jamie or Cindy? In this book there are a few drawings made by the
children about whom the book is written, as well as a few handwritten
notes. The story is not diminished without them, but if either of you is
interested in this kind of thing, would you consider picture descriptions
and/or typing in the text of the handwritten notes? If you're both busy
with other things, this book will not be unreadable at all. After all, I
read it without them, and I still loved it.
I hope someone enjoys this book.
Peace,
Mayrie
(Front Flap)
"Each day I saw more clearly what I wanted.
To have a day camp for troubled children. And
spend one last summer with my children in
this house. A final chance to reweave more
smoothly the family ties that bound us." It was
a summer that will touch your heart. Now, in
the same honest, thoughtful style that made
her previous book, P.S. Your Not Listening, so
successful, Eleanor Craig, gifted family therapist,
teacher, and author, tells the wonderfully
moving true story of her experiences running
a day camp for emotionally disturbed children
at her Connecticut home. If We Could Hear the
Grass Grow is a funny, sad, fascinating account
of what it's really like to cope and communicate
with severely antisocial children on a day-to-day
basis, deal with their violence, help
ease their pain, and free their astonishing often
hidden-capacity for love and sharing.
Eleanor Craig shows us how these seemingly
unreachable children can be reached and,
most important, can achieve remarkable
growth when handled by a committed, sensitive
teacher. Among her "special kids" are:
Rodney, the "Big Man," older than his years,
tough, uncontrollably aggressive, and as
much in need of love as of discipline.
Maria, sweet, undemanding, and troubled,
one of a large Hispanic family where the
father has a history of manic depression and
of being physically abusive. She spends
much of her time in fervent prayer.
Frankie, overweight and immature, who
acts out his mother's agoraphobia by refusing
to leave her side, day or night.
Adam, abandoned by his young, mentally
ill mother, and unable to communicate
except in comic book babble.
(continued on back flap)
(continued from front flap)
Gail, alternately coy and angry, who dreams
of the day her rejecting and alcoholic "real,
mother will reclaim her from her loving
foster parents.
Skipper, victim of a rare and progressive
genetic disease which has left him deformed
and mostly without speech, but
whose capacity for loving seems
undiminished.
Diane, precocious and childlike at once,
who is pushed and pulled unmercifully
between her divorced parents.
Against the backdrop of her marital separation
and ensuing family upheaval, Eleanor Craig
teaches a tough, straightforward lesson of love
that touches even her own healthy kids, who
return home to work as counselors and help
her run the camp. The real truth that emerges
from If We Could Hear the Grass Grow is a
simple one: that patience and caring are two
of the best medicines in the world.
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