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JennGM
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Posted: April 22 2013 at 11:58am \| IP Logged

Last weekend my sons and I attended a production of The King and I. It was presented by my local Catholic school, my alma mater, Seton School. I had not introduced this music to them, yet.

The play was so well done, and my boys just fell in love with the music and the acting. Part of the play has a delightful rendition of Uncle Tom's Cabin (Small House of Uncle Thomas).

My oldest son is interested in finding out more about Uncle Tom's Cabin. I didn't think it was appropriate to read until he was older. But then I found at the book sale on Friday a Young Folks' Uncle Tom's Cabin, adapted for children by Grace Duffie Boylan, originally published in 1901 (my version printed in 1942).

I have found this version online here: http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/childrn/youngfhp.html

And in finding that page, I followed further on this site to see the many different versions for children for Uncle Tom's Cabin, including H.E. Marshall's version.

I know before he reads it I will have to explain some of the derogatory terms within the book, and the mindset and culture of the day, and also the reason why Mrs. Stowe wrote the book. A cursory reading makes Marshall's book probably one of the best, but it's very "clean" with all the characters speaking good English. The version I have the review says it stays very close to Stowe's book, although with a few changes. That means the slaves' speech is written in the style of Brer Rabbit stories.

But I do like Marshall's introduction which really lays down the structure

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This tale was not at first written as a story for little girls and boys. It was told to grown-up people by a kind and gentle lady with a big loving heart. This lady was called Harriet Beecher Stowe, and she told the story to grown-up people to make them think.

I'm interested in knowing if this was discussed with your children before high school, and did you present other versions to your children.

Are you familiar with any of these? Did you children read them? I'm thinking we need to do Marshall first, then the one I bought if he perseveres in wanting to read it.

Thoughts?

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Posted: April 22 2013 at 1:22pm \| IP Logged

I read Marshall's version with my 10 yr old a couple months ago and I thought it was very well done. I had her read it then narrate, although I per-read so I knew what was happening. I thought Marshall handled the language and the events of the story extremely well and we had some good narrations and discussions from it. I didn't look around at other versions because I found the Marshall version first and I was very pleased with it, so decided not to muddy the waters!

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