What do You think about Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst (1985)?
I needed a fast, good read to help me catch back up in my year's reading goals, and this one did it. It was nice to revisit some of the stories I loved when I was younger and had fewer concerns of the world. Lois Lowry wrote these books in such a way that they are timeless to me - I dont' get tired of Nikky Coletti's teeth-marks, and the gerbils gerbils gerbils everywhere, and Anastasia talking to a bust of Freud. Ms. Lowry made a very nice home with the Krupniks and I love to visit it, yes I do.
—Jeremy
Anastasia is now 13 and needs psychological help from the man himself, Sigmund Freud. Sadly he is dead, so a plaster bust of him and a collections of his writings will have to suffice. Except it doesn't really help as being 13 can't really be cured.How does a book like this get greenlit? I love it so much and it gives me so much hope for some strange reason. Granted no one really reads these anymore, but at one time Anastasia was an ALA Notable book. But it was the 70's and opinions about what made a good book for children was different then.
—Megan
Some good gags but this one seemed a bit more hastily written and lacking in some of the charm found in other titles featuring these characters.I don't like that the new cover imposes upon the mind's eye with an artless photograph of a specific girl, especially some idealized air-brushed model. This robs reading of the individuality of exercising one's own creative visualization, something we should be working to preserve and pass on to children in an era saturated with multi-media entertainment.I also dislike that these books have fallen victims to the cynical commercial game of remaking everything possible into a numbered "series." Everything from Philip Roth and Gunther Grass on down to quality children's literature like Lowry is being marketed like bubble-gum cards. Collect 'em all!!!
—Robert
