{"id":923,"date":"2012-08-17T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T07:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/?p=923"},"modified":"2014-02-09T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T20:12:09","slug":"the-gammage-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elainesmithwrites.com\/wp\/2012\/08\/17\/the-gammage-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gammage Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other Muggles<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Once upon a time, there was a children’s book that resonated with adults. It was full of humor, adventure and whimsy, and the author’s imagination concealed some profound truths about humanity.<\/p>\n

It was not by J. K. Rowling.<\/p>\n

The Gammage Cup<\/em> by Carolyn Kendal was published in 1959.\u00a0 It won awards:\u00a0 a Newbery Honor book and an ALA Notable Children’s Book.\u00a0 It’s about being yourself and following your heart and how those in charge could be totally wrong and how doing things just because they’ve always been done that way can get you into a whole lot of trouble.<\/p>\n

Mostly, it’s a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

With heroes called Minnipins, how could you go wrong?<\/p>\n

Add in some misfit Minnipins–Gummy, Mingy, Walter the Earl, Curly Green and the aforementioned Muggles–banished from Slipper on the Water because of a refusal to paint their doors a proper Minnipin green (among other things), and an inability to conform to the standards of behavior laid down by the ruling class of Periods (so-called because Fooley the Balloonist had a list of abbreviations among his things when he crash-landed years ago, and his descendants have been named things like Ltd. and Co. ever since) as well as a contest among Minnipin villages for possession of the Gammage Cup just at the point when the Minnipins’ mythical enemies, the Mushrooms, reappear, and you have a gentle, very clever fable that entertains as well as enlightens.<\/p>\n

This book, although well-loved by those who know of it, was never a blockbuster, as far as I can tell.\u00a0 It’s still in print, though, and available from Amazon<\/a> if your local library doesn’t have a copy.<\/p>\n

Check it out.\u00a0 I think you’ll like it!<\/p>\n

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