Talk:The View from Saturday

message: It is huge, but it's the only one I could get.
 (talk) 02:20, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New picture 

message: Simon & Schuster currently says online: The View From Saturday, age 8-12, grade 4-6
--P64 (talk) 22:21, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Level 

message: These three paragraphs from her 2000 autobiographical statement directly and primarily concern A View From Saturday. 
:"I had started writing a story about a young man named Ethan Potter who boards a school bus the first day of sixth grade. The bus takes an unexpected turn, and a strangely dressed young man boards and sits down next to Ethan. He introduces himself as Julian and explains that his father is about to open a bed and breakfast inn--a B and B. At that point, I left my desk and took a walk along the beach. (By this time we had moved back to Florida.)
:"When I write a book, I more or less start a movie in my head, and there I was doing a re-run of what I had written. When I got to where Julian was telling Ethan about the B and B, I remembered that I had a story in my files--my mixed-up files--about a young man named Noah whose mother insists that he write his grandparents a bread-and-butter letter, a B and B letter. That made me remember another short story I had about a dog named Ginger that plays the part of Sandy in the play Annie. And that led me to another story about an Academic Bowl team.
:"Before I had finished my walk, I realized that all those short stories were united by a single theme. Taken together, they reinforced one another, and the whole became more than the sum of the parts. I knew that kids would love meeting one character and then two and three and four, and I also knew--because I had learned it from them--that they would think that fitting all the stories together was part of the adventure.
--P64 (talk) 18:56, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autobiographical statement 

message: ;Publisher
For Atheneum Books for Young Readers 1996 (first edition; hardcover), I give ref name=catalog to a public library. Simon & Schuster ref name=publisher and Amazon list editions now for sale, Atheneum BYR 1998 (paper) and Jean Karl Books (paper) respectively.
Jean Karl Books is either one imprint within Atheneum, now within Simon & Schuster, or another name for Atheneum BYR, dating from the retirement of ABYR founder and longtime editor Jean E. Karl. Her references don't make this clear for me. We have no information on Jean Karl Books; no listing for that imprint at Simon & Schuster#Imprints.
;Editor
*From references at Jean E. Karl we know: Jean Karl received E.L. Konigsburg's first two manuscripts together in 1966/1967. She continued with Atheneum as freelance editor after her retirement. She died 2000. Konigsburg called her "my forever editor" at or prior to her death.
*From ref name=transcript (no date) at E. L. Konigsburg we know: Konigsburg said "I've had the same editor always" subsequent to The View From Saturday (1996).
So we know that Karl edited Saturday —at least her sixth Newbery Medalist,  because her obituary lists five others. But wikipedia asks that we not "put two and two together" as editors —that is banned original research— so I say it only here and at Talk: Jean E. Karl#Saturday editor. Perhaps someone else will provide direct identification of Karl as the editor. --P64 (talk) 18:30, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publisher and editor