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Carregando... I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise: Children Surviving Cancer (edição: 1989)de Erma Bombeck (Autor)
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If you expect a book about children with terminal illness to be depressing, prepare to be surprised. Despite struggling against incredible odds, these children are full of life, hope and humor. The love, optimism and laughter of these children amazed even Erma Bombeck, America's favorite home humorist. This book chronicles the day-to-day existence of terminally ill children. I Want to Grow Hair . reveals the startlingly deep questions-"would you be happier if I cried all the time?"-and silly pranks-apple juice in the specimen cup-that fill their lives with meaning and joy. These true-life stories are filled with the compassion and the infectious, transcendent humor only children can generate. Narrator Barbara Rosenblat's impish sense of humor and irreverent wit bring this audiobook to life with energy and affection. I Want to Grow Hair is Erma Bombeck's most touching and vibrantly funny book. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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After writing the first few chapters she asked a group of children to read and critique her work. The campers responded with , “You gotta make it funnier.” And they said she had to add a first chapter titled, “Am I Going To Die?” To her immense credit she DID find humor to relate in the thousands of letters she received from all across the United States and from as far away as New Zealand, from children and their families who were living with this disease, frequently beating the odds, always fighting with courage, grace, dignity and hope.
The book includes many personal stories from the children themselves, and, yes, there are even a few segments that had me chuckling. Like the four-year-old who judges her healthcare givers thus: “These people don’t know what they’re doing. They put blood in me one day, and they take it out another!”
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