November 01, 2004
lynd ward
Otger bought this book at a second hand book sale this weekend. He is now frantically reading it. Otger is a victim of the gender neutral times formal education is going through, he craves for real boy books. He reads everything from Treasure Island to Dik Trom, from Pietje Bel to Jules Vernes. This version of Robinson Crusoe is being sold online for 30 dollars US, haha, he paid 3 Canadian I think. Unfortunately his copy doesn't have the interesting footprints cover, but other than that it's the same book. Otger loves the illustrations and the archaic language, he had to look up how much a "league" is: A unit of distance equal to 3.0 statute miles (4.8 kilometers). Now that's learning, eat that, schoolboard people weeding the school libraries for "outdated" books!
Posted by eliane at November 1, 2004 01:51 PMI'm glad Otger is enjoying his book! But it was not the school board selling it, but rather St. Michael's college at the University of Toronto during its first ever book-sale. Unfortunately, we missed the signed Tolkein!
http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/about/features/booksale.html#link
Posted by: ineke at November 1, 2004 10:24 PMO, sorry if I suggested that Otger's copy was one weeded by the schoolboard, I know it wasn't. But they do weed through the libraries constantly in search of outdated stuff. I meant that in general, because Otger happens to love the outdated stuff.
Posted by: eliane at November 1, 2004 10:35 PMIk zag het plaatje vóór de tekst en dacht: hee, een echte man!
:-)
Posted by: zeppo at November 2, 2004 02:19 PMGoed zo Otger, ik heb hier Karl May nog. Heeft hij "De Scheepsjongens van Bontekoe"? of moet het allemaal in het engels?
Posted by: erica at November 3, 2004 10:46 AM