[Magdalen] The Crows

[Jay Weigel]

That's easy, Grace.....it's a book that has chapters, instead of being all
of a piece like "easy reader" books. We used the term when I was in school,
and I'm older than you are (I think) so it's not new at all. In my grade
school library, the presence of chapter books was what divided the library
between the k-2 section and the grades 3-6 section.

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You've reminded me of a question I keep forgetting to ask. I never heard
> the term "chapter book" until my grandchildren started school, and I
> thought it was some new terminology or a new pedagogical technique for
> teaching reading. It still appears no different from the series I read as a
> kid...Nancy Drew, et al...but from your post, I gather this isn't new.
>
> So, what makes a book a chapter book?
>
> On February 27, 2015, at 2:45 PM, "M J [Mike] Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
>
> What I like about crows is that they're not the vicious bastards standard
> blackbirds are.  I was once literally chased out of a cemetery by a gang of
> blackbird thugs who didn't seem to get that I wasn't at all concerned about
> the damned nest of theirs in the tree near where I was visiting.
>
> And on a lighter note, this is the first "chapter book" I ever truly read
> as a first-grader:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mj3328t
>