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Title: Meet Kit: An American Girl: 1934 (American Girls Collection (Paper)) by Valerie Tripp, Walter Rane ISBN: 1-58485-016-7 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not bad for younger readers.
Comment: I read this book only because of that fact that when I was young, I absolutley loved the American Girls more than anything else in the world. And I'm glad I did, because they got me interested in history. Reading books like these will encourage young girls to move onto more challenging and realistic historical fiction as they grow older, such as the Dear America series. This book "introduces" the newest American Girl, nine-year-old Kit Kitteradge (who thought up that name, anyway?), who lives with her family in Cincinatti during the Depression. (Again, problem: the cover says the setting is 1934, the historical note says 1932. Not that little girls are going to notice.) Kit and her family are affected by the Great Depression, but her concerns are petty next to the larger problems facing most citizens of the country. Her dad loses his business. Her mom opens a boardinghouse. Kit has to give up her room to paying borders and live in the attic. Not so harsh when there were kids not much older than her living off their own wits. Kit wasn't exactly the most well-developed character, either - she's just defined as liking and disliking various things, and often acts selfish and spoiled, before suddenly realizing her mistakes. Still, I give the book five stars because it is sure the entertain the audience it is intended for.
Rating: 4
Summary: Meet Kit: An American Girl
Comment: Tripp wrote a lovely story depicting a nine-year-old girl, Kit, going through the Depression in Cincinnati. She and her family face a very difficult situation when her father, a man she deeply admires, loses his job.
This book conveys an important message to other young girls who do not understand what the Depression was all about, or the impact it had on so many people. Kit is your typical nine-year-old and she comes from a typical middle-class family in Cincinnati. This allows young girl readers to identify with this fun-loving character. Tripp's use of description helps paint a picture for the reader. For example, when Tripp describes Kit's mother she writes, "Mother looked as cool and slender as a mint leaf in her pale green dress."
This is an excellent book to read, especially for 8 - 12 year olds. Girls will definitely enjoy it more than boys since Kit, the main character, is a girl; however, she enjoys baseball and not the frilly things, so boys may enjoy this too.
Meet Kit will help reluctant readers want to read due to its easy languague. Then the reader can pick up the next book to learn even more about Kit.
Rating: 4
Summary: Helpful youth introduction to the Great Depression
Comment: Despite minor historical innacuracies begining with the cover date, this book is a wonderful addition to all young adult fiction collections.
Continuing the established tradition of the American Girls collection, this story examines historical events through the eyes of pre-adolescents who lived through ppre-selected times themselves. Remaining underrepresented in our public schools during the supposedly enlightened 21st century, multicultural women's history promotion remains revolutionary for all ages.
Although Kit Kittredge and her family admittedly fare okay during the Great Depression, teaching about this same time period (and imagining it) is difficult for many readers to take in because we have directly benefited from many federal and state goverment programs explicitly designed to prevent simmilar conditions. The social programs ultimate effectivity has paradoxically left us unaware of what such conditions were really like and how people survived during these times.
Public school American history's tendency to gloss over the disappointing portions and head straight into World War II (however important for it's own reasons) means age-appropriate Great Depression information can be hard to come by. This sittuation disadvantages readers whose relatives are now deceased or unwilling to share their own experiences about this very same time period.
To her credit, author Valerie Tripp never pretends the fictional protagonist and her family experience the worst living conditions (this is made quite clear throughout both the initial story and related series)during the 1930's. Hard as the Kittredge's 'new' life is, many other friends and aquaintences experience worse living conditions. Perspective and awareness of the larger world beyond one's self are timless social skills.
Having been first introduced to the series when there were only three girls (Kirsten, Samantha and Molly) I can unhesitatingly say I most closely relate to Kit's independence, admiration of famous women such as Amelia Earhart, and journalistic drive.
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Title: Meet Kaya: An American Girl (American Girls Collection (Paper)) by Janet Beeler Shaw, Bill Farnsworth, Susan McAliley ISBN: 1584854235 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Meet Molly: An American Girl (The American Girls Collection) by Valerie Tripp, Keith Skeen, Renee Graef ISBN: 0937295078 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Kit Learns a Lesson: 1934 A School Story (American Girls Collection, Book 2) by Valerie Tripp, Walter Rane ISBN: 1584850183 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Meet Kirsten: An American Girl (American Girls Collection (Paper)) by Janet Beeler Shaw, Paul Lackner, Renee Graef ISBN: 0937295019 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 1986 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Meet Josefina, an American Girl (American Girls Collection (Paper)) by Valerie Tripp, Jean-Paul Tibbles, Susan McAliley ISBN: 1562475150 Publisher: Pleasant Company Publications Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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