So how will Henry ever stop Mudge from devouring the surprise before Mom sees it? When they select a gorgeous golden pineapple, the menu is shaping up to be anything but dull.ĭad is helping them carve something almost too pretty to eat. It has to be juicy, crunchy, and perfect for family sharing. San Diego: Harcourt.This year Henry and Mudge are out to make the best Mother's Day lunch ever. In addition, this would be an excellent book to read to help students understand the lives of Appalachian coal mining communities. I would think the spare, clean, but moving verse would help students distill their thoughts into simple, clean prose. Did she live a successful life? How much do you need to be content? What is the measure of success? Of fulfillment? This would be an excellent model text for students refining their writing, particularly personal narratives. Ludie never tries to improve her lot, or move up in the world. She sees her children and grandchildren off, going to college, losing their hillbilly accents, marrying and remarrying, wandering and always seeking. She has no big regrets – never wished to be anything other than what she was. Highly recommended.Ĭurriculum: I often return to essential questions, and this one raises many. Rylant, who was raised by her grandparents in West Virginia, offers a rich but spare story that is heartbreaking, unsentimental, and honest.
This quiet reflection of Ludie’s life is beautifully told, and full of the kind of wisdom of living a hard, simple, and full life of not having much, but not needing or wishing for much either. Ludie and Rupe move to the hills of West Virginia where Rupe toils long, dangerous hours in a coalmine, and Ludie raises six children ("five too many"), and just when she thinks she is done raising children, she finds herself raising grandchildren. She marries Rupe at 15, not only because he was tall and kind, but because he was a way out. When her mother dies and her father remarries a woman with her own children, Ludie's impoverished circumstances are further reduced, and Ludie finds it necessary to steal food from her own table to be sure she would not go hungry. This book of free verse tells the story of Ludie in spare, beautiful words. One of the best things about my reading this summer is the pleasure of discovering novels in verse.
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