The first was that it is an environmentalist story, and we wanted more of those, but it is also an environmentalist story written as an extended poem with rhyme but also, and more importantly, with humor and creativity.”Ĭharlotte Inez Pomerantz was born on July 24, 1930, in Brooklyn to Abraham and Phyllis (Cohen) Pomerantz.
As for the cats story - they were dropped by parachute into a village to control a rampant rat population resulting from the cascading effects of DDT - she said: “I was drawn to it for several different reasons. “Charlotte definitely had a ‘little rebel’ streak in her,” Professor Mickenberg said by email. Mickenberg, a professor of American studies at the University of Texas at Austin, included the story about the parachuting cats in “Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children’s Literature,” a 2008 book she edited with Philip Nel. Pomerantz said in a video interview on the website Alchetron, “and those are the things I experienced.” She blogged about the experience - gracious words from a truly inspired author.“The political and feminist undercurrents are there because I’m the sum of all my experiences,” Ms. He later pointed her out to the crowd - the only experience she had of being star. But Robert Smith invited her to a show and she autographed his much underlined copy. There was the threat of a legal tiff with the author of this book. She was crying for herself perhaps.”Ĭharlotte has a different name 40 years earlier She was crying and crying for a girl who had died more than forty years before. “On that bleak track, the sun almost gone again, tears were pouring down her face. Her homework done, she played endless solitary games. “It was like having a prison around her of coats and backs and uniforms” The people in the road dance over several paragraphs Night after night, Charlotte lay in bed with her eyes open to the dark. The light seemed too bright for them, glaring on white walls.’ ‘ By bedtime all the faces, the voices had blurred for Charlotte to one face, one voice. The opening lines are the opening lines of the song. There is vivid and strange imagery throughout with wonderful prose beautifully chosen by Robert Smith to create a complete experience. Spoiler alert - buy the book and read it before you read this if possible.Ī young girl in a new boarding school sleeps in an old bed and wakes up the next morning to find she is someone else in the same bed 40 years earlier.
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