TEACHER, TEACHER I DECLARE! and Other Little Tattle Tales contains twenty stories thematically related in that they all have to do with teachers. Not all are classroom stories, and sometimes the fact that the characters are teachers is incidental. But they all concern grownups on the edge of something risky, often a bit mad, sometimes mighty mad. The stories don't shrink from sex or from violence, and yet there is also a good measure of sardonic whimsy involved.
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W. Royce Adams, Emeritus Professor of English, Santa Barbara City College, earned degrees from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and California State University, Long Beach. During his thirty-year teaching career he published twenty-two college textbooks, primarily in the areas of developmental reading, writing and study skills. He has published several short stories and is the author of the young readers fantasy-adventure series, The Rairarubia Tales. He is past-president of the College Reading and Learning Association, a member of the Author's Guild, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, The Association of Booksellers for Children, and the Rockford Writers Guild. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Enthusiastically recommended reading for student teachers,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Teacher, Teacher, I Declare! (Hardcover)
In Teacher, Teacher, I Declare And Other Little Tattle Tales, Royce Adams (Emeritus Professor of English, Santa Barbara City College) has assembled twenty stories thematically related in that they all have to do with teachers. Not just classroom stories, these stories are divided into the beginnings, middles, and endings of various teachers' careers and reflect education styles ranging from the mainstream traditional to the avant garde experimental. Teacher, Teacher, I Declare is enthusiastically recommended reading for student teachers and anyone else with an interest in teaching as a career, a lifestyle, or a calling.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Carrying Tales,
By John D. McCafferty (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Teacher, Teacher, I Declare! (Paperback)
By the time I had finished reading "Bouillabaise" in "Teacher, Teacher I Declare!" I realized that I was in the presence of some very satisfying fictional art. Not just stories, or tales carried out of school (which they are), but artistic renderings of the sadness that goes with living. Not the sadness of terrible tragedy, war, or hideous crimes, but the smaller sadness of broken dreams, unself-confidence, missed opportunities, frustration, failure. Like many of the other stories in the book, "Bouillabaise" was perversely amusing at the same time, when you thought about it. And that's life. . . kind of funny when you think about it. Kind of sad. But worth it, after all, and gratifying to contemplate. W. Royce Adams is a stylish, professional author, as evidenced by his long string of published books, and it's good that he turned his attention to a fiction subject that he knows well - teachers, having been one for many years. To their students' surprise, they have lives outside of school and get into the same emotionally chaotic predicaments that the rest of us do. We watch Adams' characters struggle with unraveling marriage, drug experimentation, sexual longing, death in the family, personal betrayal, fear. . . It's excellent reading to see the world through Adams' eyes.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Teacher, Teacher I Declare!,
By John D. McCafferty (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Teacher, Teacher, I Declare! (Paperback)
By the time I had finished reading "Bouillabaise" in "Teacher, Teacher I Declare!" I realized that I was in the presence of some very satisfying fictional art. Not just stories, or tales carried out of school (which they are), but artistic renderings of the sadness that goes with living. Not the sadness of terrible tragedy, war, or hideous crimes, but the smaller sadness of broken dreams, unself-confidence, missed opportunities, frustration, failure. Like many of the other stories in the book, "Bouillabaise" was perversely amusing at the same time, when you thought about it. And that's life. . . kind of funny when you think about it. Kind of sad. But worth it, after all, and gratifying to contemplate. W. Royce Adams is a stylish, professional author, as evidenced by his long string of published books, and it's good that he turned his attention to a fiction subject that he knows well - teachers, having been one for many years. To their students' surprise, they have lives outside of school and get into the same emotionally chaotic predicaments that the rest of us do. We watch Adams' characters struggle with unraveling marriage, drug experimentation, sexual longing, death in the family, personal betrayal, fear. . . It's excellent reading to see the world through Adams' eyes.
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