Reviews for Good day blue goose!

The average rating for Good day blue goose! based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-04-18 00:00:00 Dave Maida Jr. Every year in the one room schoolhouse, the graduating sixth graders get to go through the gate. Most of the residents in the town have done this, but none will talk about the experience. It seems that this secret rite of passage is necessary, but also possibly dangerous, as there are rumors about children who have not come back. There are questions about this year's class as they must do this as a group. The five children each have their own fears about doing this. Well written, but definitely for a younger reader.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-21 00:00:00 Rita Goodell LINKING THE HUMAN AND NATURAL WORLDS Miss Clough, the aged, frumpy teacher in the county's last one-room school house, has an extraordinary reputation in this rural town. Everyone who has graduated from her 6th grade for over 25 years has experienced something bizarre yet wonderful--never to be discussed afterwards--in a private ceremony behind the school. Down a path and through a special, locked gate, to enter her private region of fantasy. What is this secret ritual--long anticipated but mentioned in tones of hushed awe by the privileged natives? Becky and her four classmates have waited for their initiation into the adult secrets all year, and now, it's Their turn. The great day has come! For their Zoological instruction each pupil has chosen a different animal to study: chickadee, frog, cardinal, swallow, and trout--but only with Miss Clough's permission. In addition they have been training their internal clocks to "go off" on pre-set demand. Bossy Penny is Becky's best friend, but the boys seem to shun each other. Tim, a newcomer to town, is very suspicious of all the secrets whispered about Graduation, and resentful that he had to sacrifice his cat. Mary Margaret is the overburdened sister with too many siblings to nurture. Denied her own childhood she has little joy in her life and wallows in guilt and is obsessed by sin. The honored class wavers in loyalty to their admired teacher--is she a witch or just plain crazy? This story hooks the reader instantly, so that we too are desperate to go through the gate along with the class, in order to discover a new world. How will the kids be changed; or is it all a great, two-generational hoax? Delightful Fantasy which will keep you glued to the pages! (Januray 12, 2013. I welcome dialogue with teachers)