[Magdalen] The Crows

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

This being a theologo group, I was all set to assume the book was appointed
to be read in chapter meetings on the monastery....

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
>