[Magdalen] The Crows

[Grace Cangialosi]

It's funny that I never heard it--maybe it was a regional thing. I always assumed books had chapters unless they were those books for really little kids. Never heard them described that way.

> On 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
>>