[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted another book

  • From: "solsticesinger" <solsticesinger25@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:33:56 -0500

This is already in the collection.

Shannon
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From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mrenae@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 8:29 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Submitted another book


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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