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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Today Show Book Club #3)
List price: $13.95
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Author(s): Haven Kimmel
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 977.264
EAN: 9780767915052
Edition: Today Show Book Club
ISBN: 0767915054
Label: Broadway
Language(s): English Original LanguageEnglish UnknownEnglish Published
List Price: $13.95
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 282
Package Dimensions:
Height: 0.7"
Width: 5.2"
Length: 0.7"
Weight: 0.3 lbs.
Product Group: Book
Address: 2002-09
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: 2002-09-03
Studio: Broadway
Editorial Reviews
Product Description:
When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed "Zippy" for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and lovingly told memoir, Kimmel takes readers back to a time when small-town America was caught in the amber of the innocent postwar period–people helped their neighbors, went to church on Sunday, and kept barnyard animals in their backyards.
Laced with fine storytelling, sharp wit, dead-on observations, and moments of sheer joy, Haven Kimmel's straight-shooting portrait of her childhood gives us a heroine who is wonderfully sweet and sly as she navigates the quirky adult world that surrounds Zippy.
Customer Reviews Average rating - 4.5
Rating - 1 Date: 2009-01-01
Content: I can't believe all the good reviews for this book. It is a boring book. There is no substance to the book and it is poorly written. The author just rambles on about nothing.
Summary: Boring
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-12-21
Content: This is a laugh out loud book. Told from a childs perspective. If you can remember back that far, you will LOVE this book. Beautifully written.
Summary: A Great Buy
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-09-21
Content: How does Kimmel do it? She grips the reader into a tale (based on her very skewed childhood memory) and then she throws the reader a curve ball. Sometimes, it's the very last sentence of a memory or the last word. It is that insightful nugget of information that allows the reader to know so much more about the situation than the child-storyteller does.
I laughed out loud through so much of this book, and when I was done, I wanted more, so I picked up She Got Up Off the Couch. It's a book you will want to share.
Summary: Most Cleverly Written
Rating - 4 Date: 2008-09-18
Content: This was the first book in the memoir genre that I have read, and I really enjoyed it. Zippy is told from the author's childhood voice, is full of humor, and takes you back to when you were a kid having the same thoughts. I'm amazed that someone could remember so much about their childhood and tell the story in such a fun way. It's a quick, easy read and will leave you feeling uplifted! I also recommend it's sequel - She Got Up Off The Couch...
Summary: Sweet, funny, uplifting
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-08-20
Content: ZIPPY makes the short list of books I would take on a deserted island; it makes my heart sing. It makes me want to write.
Summary: Deserted-Island Read
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