Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
I just recently met Laura Amy Schlitz the author of the Newbery Winner Book Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Ms. Schlitz was incredibily nice and it was so exciting considering that my teacher Monica Edinger was on the Newbery Committee.
Ms. Schlitz’s book is a book of monologues and dialogues of children from medieval times. These children are suppose to be between the ages of 10 and 15. There are royals and servants and some of the people know each other and interact.
When I met Ms. Schlitz she told me how she felt went she received a phone call that told her that she had won. She currently works at the Park School in Maryland where my cousin goes to school. She told me that it she was so surprised when she got the phone call and she told me she thought it wasn’t real.
I enjoyed Ms. Schlitz’s book and I think her book really deserved that award.
Since my teacher was on the Newbery commitee she had my class all read a monologues and dialogues from the book. Here is my podcast as Isobel the Lord’s Daughter.
Enjoy!
March 5th, 2008 at 5:51 am
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March 5th, 2008 at 6:04 am
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March 5th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Thank you for sharing your reading with us. I am very jealous that you have met Laura and excited that I will also meet her in June. What a wonderful, full experience you have had! Keep reading and sharing!
Tami
(2008 Newbery Committee Member)
March 5th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Isobel is pretty upset isn’t she? I enjoyed hearing her voice come alive as you read the words. What a treat! I’m glad that you seemed to understand her. It’s a lot easier nowadays to wash our clothes and yet I bet she didn’t usually do the dirty work as the Lord’s daughter. Still, no matter when we live, we care about what we look like. Clothes must have been very expensive too. I’m not one to care much about what I wear. What do you think would happen if someone threw mud at you? I think I’d worry more about why they were upset than about the clothes. It’s fun to think aobut what’s different now and what’s the same. Carol
( A member of the 2008 Newbery Committee)
March 12th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I’m very much enjoying listening to these podcasts. You did a marvelous job with Isobel.