What do You think about Still More Stories From Grandma's Attic (1999)?
I read the first two books and loved them. I enjoy hearing about when Mabel was a little girl just as much as Arleta does. The best part of these stories is the lessons that Mabel learned. Things like stealing is bad from Windfalls, you can not believe every advertisement from Face Cream from Godey’s Lady’s Book and dogs can spell in The Dog Who Could Spell. In this book, I get to know Mabel’s best friend, Sarah Jane better as well. They were always getting in trouble. Mabel maybe just a little more as she was a bit of a tomboy and not afraid of heights. So she was always climbing trees and running her good dresses.
—Cheryl
For some inexplicable reason, I LOVED this book when I was a kid and read most of the stories over and over again. I borrowed a couple of the others in the set, but this was the one I owned and I thought the stories were the best.Not long ago I found one of the others at a used bookstore and bought it. Mostly I noticed how very, very religious and preachy the stories were. I don't mind a little preaching from Caroline Ingalls now and then, but the actual story was hard to find amid the preaching. I was SURE my precious Still More Stories hadn't been like that; even as a kid I would have noticed. I wondered if they'd been perhaps re-edited to put in more preaching. So next time I visited my parents, I took home my battered old copy of STILL MORE STORIES. Sure enough, while there's some religious stuff, it's fairly inobtrusive. I think the author must have added stuff in (or back in) when they were repackaged by the new publisher.Sadly, the stories aren't as great as I remembered, either. Most of them are very slight, and the author ends them in the wrong place (either too late or too early). The modern child who frames the story generally comes across as a fifty-year-old. It's sad when you have to let go of a childhood favorite.
—Wendy
Title: STILL MORE STORIES FROM GRANDMA’S ATTICAuthor: Arleta RichardsonPublisher: David C. CookAugust 2011ISBN: 978-0-7814-0381-8 Genre: Inspirational/nonfiction/young adult/memoirWhen I was a little girl, I owned a series of books called Grandma’s Attic, stories about a grandmother when she was a little girl back in the 1880s. Well, now-a-days, little girls’ grandmothers were born in the 40’s, 50’s, and even 60’s, so they don’t get first hand stories about how their great-great-whatever grandmothers used to live. I enjoyed rereading this series, in its entirety, and was glad when I was offered the third and fourth books in this series for review, so I could pass them on to my own little girls. Don’t miss any of the books in this series, Stories from Grandma’s Attic, More Stories from Grandma’s Attic, Still More Stories from Grandma’s Attic, and Treasures from Grandma’s Attic. They are a treasure to read and for young girls to learn about historical days. $6.99. 150 pages.
—Laura
