Granted, I think I was only eight or nine then. This isn’t the only middle grade book that’s given me that impression lately, but it isn’t something I noticed the first time I read this story. Her writer-artist-type parents tend not to make a thing of it, and with an especially quirky father who’s okay with cussing in front of his daughter (yes, the story includes an actual “would’ve been bleeped out on network TV” cuss word-twice) and letting his daughter sip his wine and slurp the foam from his beers, going with the flow of his child’s smart mouth is understandable for his character.Īlso, maybe I grew up with kids who grew up pretty fast, but even with Anastasia’s smarts, some of her experiences seem littler-kiddish to me. Well! Anastasia’s pretty liberal about identifying everything she doesn’t like, so I don’t feel bad starting out with cons for this middle grade read from the 1970s.Īnastasia is smart in an academic and bookish way, but she also has quite a smart mouth at times, just downright disrespectful.
There’s plenty of new stuff going on for a ten-year-old named Anastasia Krupnik by author Lois Lowry. Beginning to understand her forgetful, elderly grandmother. I tend to rate books not according to how “perfect” they are, seem to be, or are said to be in general but rather to how perfect they are to me.įalling in love for the first time.
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