Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair (utgåvan 1996)

Although the rest of the residents of the town of Triple Creek had little use for eccentric hermit Charlotte Huck (named in honor of real-life librarian and author, Charlotte S. Huck), Eli loved his "Aunt Chip," and visited her regularly. Having taken to her bed years before in protest, declaring that "there would be consequences" to the town's decision to tear down the library, in order to construct a massive TV tower, Aunt Chip lived a quiet life with her (adorable!) cats. But when she discovered that the "consequences" included an entire generation of children growing up without the ability to read, she decided that, in this case, discretion was NOT the better part of valor, and set out to do something about it...

Having been raised in a home that, for many years, had no television - a conscious choice on the part of my parents, made in order to encourage me and my sisters to become readers, and to play more outdoors - I am greatly in sympathy with Patricia Polacco's point, in Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair, that too much television does indeed bring consequences - of the negative sort. I appreciated the fact that television didn't need to be "done away with" entirely, once the residents of Triple Creek realized how foolish they had been to abandon reading, but was henceforth (as should everything else be) consumed in moderation. Definitely a book to spark discussion, with younger readers, about the importance of books, and the library! ( )

This is a great story to get kids reading. The use of books and Patricia Polacco's characteristic elder role in this story are great. If using this book in the classroom, it would help to teach your students about the value of education. ( )

This is a story about people who no longer read. This book contains alot of colorful imagery. This would be a great book to read to students in an english class to show why reading is so important. ( )

A story about the importance of books!

Find out what could happen and did to a little town named Triple Creek. When all the towns-folk watch tv night and day their town and kids are slowly deteriorating. Find out who helps Eli and all the children from becomming mindless drones. What was it that saved them all in the end? ( )