So was Elizabeth, in Autumn Street.īut Anastasia Krupnik-feisty, outspoken, sometimes confrontational? Not me at all. Meg Chalmers, in A Summer to Die, was me.
(But it’s a thrill knowing that there are several young women out there, grown by now, who were named for her.)Īnd a character’s personality? Often it has its origins in my own remembered early years. When characters float into my consciousness like that, they frequently arrive with a name. I think Anastasia simply came forward, tugged at my sleeve, and said, Hey. I was working on a third, Autumn Street, which made me cry every time I reread the completed chapters. I had just written two books-the second was about to be published-and both of them were solemn, serious in tone.
No computers then she emerged from an old typewriter and kind of took me by surprise. Summary: Anastasia’s 10th year has some good things, like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother, and some bad things, like finding out about an impending baby brother.Īnastasia was born in the winter of 1978. The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows: Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1979.įor information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to or to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 3 Park Avenue, 19th Floor, New York, New York 10016. Oh yeah, and then you might cry at the end part.Īll rights reserved. I love her parents (and how terrifying is it that her mother and I are now the same age?). they come and go without any reason at all, rather like elves." "Warts, you know," her father had told her, "have a kind of magic to them. "It's the loveliest color I've seen in a wart," her mother, who had seen others, said with admiration. It had appeared quite by surprise, shortly after her tenth birthday, on a morning when nothing else interesting was happening, and it was the first wart she had ever had, or seen. "Anastasia had a small pink wart in the middle of her left thumb. Anastasia reminds me a lot of myself at that age, so I probably just thought it seemed normal.īut now! I was reading this at lunch and I had to stop because I kept laughing and my co-workers were staring at me. Used Very Good (1 available) Used book that is in excellent condition.It's weird, I didn't really think of these books as that funny when I was a kid.
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