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Title: The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright ISBN: 0-8050-7060-5 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Saturdays is a wonderful story of family and growing up.
Comment: I first found this book at a resale shop when I was eleven or so. I bought it for 10 cents. It was one of the best investments of my life. It quickly became (and still is) my favorite children's novel. I enjoyed the stories of the ISAAC club. I really found so many afternoons of enjoyment reading about Miranda's petit fours, Oliver's adventure at the circus, the near death of Mona and of course finding out that "the elephant" was such a great lady. I re-read it as an adult and enjoyed it thouroughly. I reccommend this book to anyone looking for a happy, carefree story of family and adventure.
Rating: 5
Summary: Explaining Dumb Crambo
Comment: My original review was written 14 July 1998. This is an addition for readers (and potential readers) who are (or would be) as puzzled as I once was when the book said the Melendy children played a noisy game of "Dumb Crambo". Over 20 years after I first read THE SATURDAYS, I was lucky enough to get a copy of VICTORIAN PARLOUR GAMES by Patrick Beaver that includes it.
To paraphrase, in Dumb Crambo, the players are split evenly into two teams. One team leaves the room while the remaining team chooses a verb. When the first team comes back in, the second team tells them another verb that rhymes with the first verb. The first team must guess the secret verb by acting it out. For example [not the one given], if the secret verb is "fly", the first team might be told "try". If they guess it's "spy", they act out someone spying on someone else. If they're wrong, the second team hisses them. The first team keeps trying until they act out the right verb.
It's called "dumb crambo" because it's a variation of a game called "crambo." In the original, only one person leaves the room and any kind of word may be chosen. The guesser is still told a word that rhymes with the secret word. The trick is that you have to ask questions that might get you the secret word WITHOUT naming the word you're guessing. For instance, if you think the secret word is "bus", you might ask "Is it a big ground vehicle that carries a lot of passengers?"
I think it shows something of the personalities and intelligence of the Melendy children that they would enjoy Dumb Crambo.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Classic!
Comment: "The Saturdays" has been among my favorite juveniles since I discovered it in the library 40 years ago. I'm now in my 50's and can't count how many times I've gone back and reread it. What a treat to see that, at last, some astute editor has had the savvy to bring it back into print so modern audiences can enjoy it--and in a durable hardcover at that. This is a perfect read-aloud for families, in part perhaps because of the age-spread of the four children: preschoolers will envy six-year-old Oliver his lone excursion to the circus, young teens will identify with 13-year-old Mona's stirrings of adolescent rebellion as exemplified by her decision to have her "long butter-colored braids" cut off, and middlers will like 10-year-old Randy's creation of the Independent Saturday Afternoon Adventure Club and the unique situations that befall her (like befriending the formidable and exotic Mrs. Oliphant or tumbling out of a rowboat on Central Park Lake). Each child is a real human being and an individual character whom Enright draws to perfection. And the setting (New York in, probably, early 1940 or '41) will intrigue the younger generations and bring a glow of nostalgia to the older ones. This book should be in every household library in the land!
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Title: The Four-Story Mistake by Elizabeth Enright ISBN: 0140383948 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Then There Were Five by Elizabeth Enright ISBN: 0805070621 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze by Elizabeth Enright ISBN: 080507063X Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright, Beth Krush, Joe Krush ISBN: 0152022724 Publisher: Odyssey Classics Pub. Date: 06 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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Title: Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright ISBN: 0440486815 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1987 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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