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Post by Graveyard Goddess on Jul 28, 2005 8:56:19 GMT -5
Has anyone here read the most amazing book by Francessca Lia Block called with baby? Its about some girl with purple eyes and tangely hair who wears wings and little black dresses and rollerskates and shes on a quest to find her reall family. As she does it she takes photos of sadness and stuff....well anyhow...im doing my research paper (30 pages) on that story. can anyone tell me ANYTHING they may know about it? opinions about anything having to do with witchbaby.... thankies  |
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Post by changeling on Aug 20, 2005 19:53:53 GMT -5
Are you still working on this paper? it looks like this post is a few weeks old. i read witch baby and some of the other related books (i.e. weetzie bat) a while ago and really liked them.
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Post by Graveyard Goddess on Aug 20, 2005 21:20:51 GMT -5
 I need to have it done in 4 days and im still no where! I am just so tired from all my other summer course work i cant seem to make any discoveries worth writing and rambling over >.< id LOVE your help....anmything anything
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Post by changeling on Aug 21, 2005 18:36:01 GMT -5
 ok, not sure if any of this will help, but this is what i remember - witch baby always feels different / not as pretty as her sister (hair, etc)and generally feels out of place a lot of the time - even though she loves and is loved, she doesn't seem to feel like she belongs as much as the other members of her family. i don't remember at what point she finds out that her real father was a gay friend of her mother's that impregnated her just bec her mom wanted to have a baby, but i think that helps her to put a finger on why she was never as close to her mom's bf as her sister is. her mom, stepfather and sister all seem to have really easy, natural relationships with one another and everyone they meet and are more extroverted than witch baby is - beautiful, glamourous w/o trying etc. witch baby just kind of feels like an ugly ducking and like she is not as close to her family members as they all are to each other. i don't think anyone in her family feels that way about her -they seem to love her and accept her as she is, she is just struggling with her own identity in relation to the other people she lives with and coming to terms w/ how & why she came into the world.
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Post by Graveyard Goddess on Aug 21, 2005 18:45:51 GMT -5
oh thank you thank you thank you *hug* this will help me a lot....thanks this is too slinkester-cool  ;D |
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Post by changeling on Aug 21, 2005 18:56:05 GMT -5
np. i read the series like 8 years ago, so there is probaby something important i am missing - i found this book summary at amazon.com - some of it is the same but some of it is different - the 2nd review indicates that person i remember as being her mom may not be her biological mom? i don't remember that part, but here are these 2 summaries:
Amazon.com
One of kids' favorite characters in Francesca Lia Block's Weetzie Bat series is Witch Baby: a tangly haired, purple-eyed girl who can curl her toes into cashew shapes. She's a bit of an outsider, more in touch with feelings and portents than the rest of the gang from Shangri-L.A. In Witch Baby and Missing Angel Juan, we're able to watch Witch Baby work through some of her feelings of alienation. Her willingness to explore darker emotional realms is a real inspiration, and, in fact, she seems more evolved and "whole" than the others. In Missing Angel Juan, Witch Baby finally finds a way to create her own sense of belonging. She finds out more about her history and her unique needs to push through some of the shyness and moodiness that has always kept her separate from others.
From School Library Journal
Grade 8-12-- This sequel to Weetzie Bat (HarperCollins, 1989) lights up readers' smiles and touches the heart just as its predecessor did. Block takes Witch Baby through her search for the answer to the question, "What time are we upon and where do I belong?" Witch Baby feels separate from the other members of her extended family. They love her, but she thinks she doesn't belong. She acts out her isolation through her photographs of the family, which all exclude her; through her collection of newspaper articles of various disasters; and through acts of hostility such as pulling apart her semi-sister Chero-kee's kachina Barbies. She ultimately finds her birth mother (who escapes life's pain in the Jayne Mansfield Fan Club), realizes her place in the family, and teaches them all some lessons in understanding. Block's writing features charming imagery, gently surreal characters and events, and the recurring theme of tolerance through love. In Witch Baby she also explores the danger of denying life's pain. Only by facing ugliness can one begin to change it and to appreciate its accompanying happiness. Block has a limited but devoted audience--she may be just a tad too southern California sophisticated for broad appeal. Nevertheless, she's a superior writer and has created a superior cast of characters. --Ellen Ramsay, Amphitheater High School, Tucson, AZ
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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