The following are reviews/comments left by readers under the old BonanzaBrand Library:
Reviewer: JoaniePaiute
Date: 26 Aug 2013 08:18 am Title: Out of Boredom Comes Fishing
What a sweet story, Bluewind! I love Hop Sing’s wise encouragement here, and his relationship with Joe. Also love the way you show us how smart and creative Joe is. I’m honored that a Seedling challenge inspired this–great job!
Author’s Response:
JoaniePaiute, thank you for creating the Seedling Challenge in the forums, I love how one word can send the various contributors into different thought processes to come up with unique stories.
And Yes, even at this age Joe is smart, and at times like these I’m thankful that Hop Sing is there for him. 😉
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Reviewer: JoeC
Date: 08 Aug 2013 12:14 pm Title: Out of Boredom Comes Fishing
What a sweet story. I could see Joe sitting with Hop Sing. Wonderful idea to use the oldest “language” of the human race; pictures. Thanx. JoeC
Author’s Response:
Hi JoeC, I took a while to figure out how to have young Joe actually ‘write’ a letter without his Pa or his brother there to help him. At first I had Hop Sing bring Joe one of his ‘alphabet’ books, but then I didn’t know if Hop Sing would even know how to spell in English. So I came up with the next best thing – pictures. And as they say, a picture paints a thousand words (unfortunately, I was limited to 500 as a criteria for this Seedling Challenge). I’m glad you enjoyed.
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Reviewer: faust
Date: 08 Aug 2013 11:43 am Title: Out of Boredom Comes Fishing
I can clearly picture the drawings! How sweet!
Author’s Response:
Hi Faust, I’m glad your minds-eye could see the drawings; and anything with a ‘young’ cartwright has to be sweet. Don’t you agree?
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Reviewer: jcg Bonanzababe
Date: 06 Aug 2013 08:46 pm Title: Out of Boredom Comes Fishing
Cute story! Thanks
Author’s Response:
Jcg Bonanzababe – I’m glad you enjoyed the story and took a moment to leave a review. Thank you
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Reviewer: Sibylle
Date: 06 Aug 2013 12:51 pm Title: Out of Boredom Comes Fishing
What a cute story! I loved it.
Author’s Response:
Sibylle, thank you for taking the time to read and letting me know you loved it.
Deanne / aka BluewindFarm
Aww… Adam will love that letter from Joe when he gets it!
Such a sweet little story! I hope Hop Sing had someone send Adam a translation. Not sure his logical mind could figure it out.
What a cute story. Little Joe is so creative and very smart for such a young child. I could hug that little rascal. Thanks
Oh….
So cuuuuuuuute!!!!
I could put this little child in my arms and give him a lot of mother love!!!
By the cowboy we knew, we can imagine the sweet expressions of that little boy when you was describing the actions!
Thank you for that
Eliane, Thank you for reading. And I can imagine the facial expressions as well as his posture while sitting int he kitchen with Hop Sing.