Document Type
Blog
Publication Date
6-22-2017
Abstract
A book can make a wonderful gift for a child. When a mother takes her daughter into a bookstore to help her choose her first chapter book, it can be a lovely occasion for both of them. Unless you're talking about a mother and daughter that I know. For them, the occasion wasn't so great. The girl was nine. The mother chose a book, and the daughter complained. Oh, how she hated the looks of it. She told her mother the cover was hideous, the pictures were boring, and the whole thing had too many pages. She griped. She vowed that never, as long as she lived, would she ever read that awful "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
Keywords
Erma Bombeck, humor writing, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, University of Dayton
eCommons Citation
Peacock, Frances, "Oak Brook" (2017). Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Blog. 1549.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/ebww_blog/1549
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