Comments on: No More Books About Toy Rabbits

By: Nikki Loftin

Nikki Loftin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:26:00 +0000

Hi, Pat! Thanks for commenting. You didn’t seem snippy at all… I hope you don’t feel like you needed to defend Kate DiC to me, though — or to anyone! She’s a genius, one of my favorite authors. Maybe my humorous intent in this blog post wasn’t as obvious as I thought.
Have you read The Magician’s Elephant? Glorious, like reading a Garcia Marquez book for little people. I got a signed copy;-)
Happy New Year!

By: pat gibbs

pat gibbs — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:41:27 +0000

Kate DiCamillo is a brilliant writer. To be able to show what real love is through an inanimate object is something that I imagine most writer’s are incapable of. I didn’t read it to my grandchildren. I read it for myself to see what all the fuss was about; this, “Kate DiCamillo”, business. I was blown away. (Picture a sixty-year old Marine Vietnam veteran being blown away by words instead of a land mine).
My grandson is nine and I think he will enjoy it when I give my copy to him.
Kate DiCamillo, when asked if she considered herself a children’s book writer, said that, (paraphrasing here) she was a story teller and it really didn’t matter what the age level was that connected to her work.
Hope to read your blog again later. Don’t mean to snippy but I love Kate.

By: Nikki Loftin

Nikki Loftin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:12:28 +0000

Oh, the sweetness of you! Love ya, L.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:30:27 +0000

LOL. I love your husband’s honesty and the picture of your family crying over the book is funny (bc of the way you told it) in an apalling sort of way. I’m definitely not going near that book while I’m hormonal. I tear up at sweet things in books. I’d ball if there wasn’t happy closure! I have the feeling your brighten many people’s day. I count myself one of those lucky folks.

By: Nikki Loftin

Nikki Loftin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:54:59 +0000

Hi, Lori! I’m glad you see the humor in it. Honestly, I was sort of laughing at the whole situation (in an appalled way) while it was going on. I mean, it was like Charlotte’s Web ending on steroids… and without the happy. I wouldn’t ever read this one to a class of 2nd graders, without a group therapist close at hand. Children? Can you say “closure”?
Glad I brighten your day — you do mine, as well!

By: Nikki Loftin

Nikki Loftin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:51:27 +0000

Definitely put this on your “when your tear ducts need cleaning out” list.

By: Lori W.

Lori W. — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:35:11 +0000

Nikki,
My son’s 2nd grade teacher is reading them this very book. Good thing she does that “share your feelings circle-time” so they can all grieve together. Even though your post is about a sad story, you still make me laugh. No pressure to keep on being hilarious, but I do think I got to meet you at Backspace just so I’d have your humor to brighten the wintry days.

By: suzie

suzie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:10:46 +0000

Oh no! I mean, I love a good cry, but

By: Dave Wilson

Dave Wilson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:49:06 +0000

Nikki, you are too kind. I am, however, secure enough in my masculinity to come clean in public and admit that I was having a fully-fledged Roxaboxen breakdown during last night's reading.