
I love blogging. I really do. I tried MySpace and I tried Facebook but blogging is home. It's comfortable and I like it here. One of the things that I like about blogging is that it offers more opportunity to really connect with others. When I started blogging it was strictly to stay in touch with family and close friends. No one else even KNEW about my blog. It was nothing but a little diary. Then I started blogging about books - just for fun - and somehow everything exploded in my face. (Some explosions are good.)
Over time, I consistently participated in Semicolon's Saturday Reviews and every so often I'd click on Jama Rattigan's blog and read her review of some children's book she'd read and was talking about. I'm ashamed to admit it but it took me a really long time to figure out that she was an author. A published author. Of a children's book. *Gulp* Sometimes I'm a little slow . . . (forgive me)!
Her blog is cool. I love the way she highlights other authors, illustrators, noodles, and people she cares about. She has always seemed like a genuinely warm person. The kind you'd want to know. (She even participated in a meme I did around here some time ago cementing her cool factor.)

The next thing that happened was that Jama Rattigan started leaving comments here. On MY blog. Consistently. Well, if I wasn't curious about her books before (and I was) I sure was now! I like to know the people who come to visit me and so yesterday my little guy and I trekked off to our local library and snatched up both of Rattigan's books, Dumpling Soup
After nap time we cuddled up and read her books. Dumpling Soup

Turns out that apparently Rattigan's mother was one of twelve children and so Jama had plenty of aunts growing up that she loved spending time with.
Overall I have the strong sense that Jama Rattigan is big on family and togetherness. Her personal blog suggests nothing less, nor do her stories. If you haven't checked out her books, I'd urge you to do so - and not just because she reads this blog from time to time! No, I'd urge you to check them out because they are genuinely GOOD! If I didn't think so, I wouldn't have created this post.
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Dear JKR - Thank you for your superb work which I will now share with my kiddoes as they grow up! I'm so glad to know of this and I appreciate all that you do and say to encourage other people in their personal journeys!
3 comments:
Thanks for the intro - I've gone and requested both of these books at the library!
Well, Carrie, you've just made my day! Thank you so much for this post, and for reading my books!!
((Big hugs))
OH, wow! I'm just speechless about this, Carrie! How neat that I am posting just below the esteemed author herself! Thank you so very much for sharing this--I'll definitely look for these at our library!
I'm so glad you're still participating in Read ALoud Thursday! I love doing it, even if I don't always get a lot of participation.
Isn't it amazing what this little thing called blogging brings us?
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