PBParty 9: The Uncool Friendship of Pablo and the Knitting Club, CB
Title: The Uncool Friendship of Pablo and the Knitting ClubGenre: Chapter book Word count: 8,400Query:
Dear Michelle and Sharon,
Pablo accidentally becomes the knitting club’s newest member, thanks to a game of hide-and-seek gone wrong. The competitive nine-year-old will do anything to win a game, including joining a knitting club of elderly women.
He wasn’t planning on spending his afternoons knitting with a group of old ladies. And he never dreamed that he’d actually LIKE it.
Pablo loves a good story, and these women have plenty. They talk basketball and segregation, weddings and funerals, about their own city and far off places. Quirky Helen is the unofficial knitting group leader and has a story for everything from giant dogs to water parks. Mrs. Ramos takes Pablo under her wing and shows him how he can gain strength from the past to face his future. And sweet Mrs. O’Malley doesn’t even knit, she crochets.
But Pablo has a problem: knitting isn't cool and hanging out with grandmas isn't cool either. If any of the other kids find out he’s in a knitting club he’s doomed! He doesn't want to be labeled as "uncool" for the rest of his life.
THE UNCOOL FRIENDSHIP OF PABLO AND THE KNITTING CLUB complete at 9,000 words is a chapter book set in present day San Antonio, Texas. It draws from both the city's history and it's current culture, and the strong cousin relationship will resonate with chapter book readers.
I am a San Antonio native who has worked with children in a variety of settings including teaching them how to knit. I am a multiracial Latina of Hispanic and white heritage, as are many of the characters in this story.
First 100 words:
Knitting isn’t cool. Knitting clubs definitely aren’t cool. I’m in fourth grade. I play basketball, and (sometimes) hang out with the popular kids. No one expects that I am a knitter, but I do like to knit. It all started last year, when my aunt, Tia Lina, had a baby. That was when Abuela told me and my cousin Rachel it was time for us to knit baby hats.
We knit while watching the Spurs play on TV. The game makes the knitting go by faster. For some reason Abuela didn’t trust us with sharp, long, knitting needles so she gave us little circle looms.
Dear Michelle and Sharon,
Pablo accidentally becomes the knitting club’s newest member, thanks to a game of hide-and-seek gone wrong. The competitive nine-year-old will do anything to win a game, including joining a knitting club of elderly women.
He wasn’t planning on spending his afternoons knitting with a group of old ladies. And he never dreamed that he’d actually LIKE it.
Pablo loves a good story, and these women have plenty. They talk basketball and segregation, weddings and funerals, about their own city and far off places. Quirky Helen is the unofficial knitting group leader and has a story for everything from giant dogs to water parks. Mrs. Ramos takes Pablo under her wing and shows him how he can gain strength from the past to face his future. And sweet Mrs. O’Malley doesn’t even knit, she crochets.
But Pablo has a problem: knitting isn't cool and hanging out with grandmas isn't cool either. If any of the other kids find out he’s in a knitting club he’s doomed! He doesn't want to be labeled as "uncool" for the rest of his life.
THE UNCOOL FRIENDSHIP OF PABLO AND THE KNITTING CLUB complete at 9,000 words is a chapter book set in present day San Antonio, Texas. It draws from both the city's history and it's current culture, and the strong cousin relationship will resonate with chapter book readers.
I am a San Antonio native who has worked with children in a variety of settings including teaching them how to knit. I am a multiracial Latina of Hispanic and white heritage, as are many of the characters in this story.
First 100 words:
Knitting isn’t cool. Knitting clubs definitely aren’t cool. I’m in fourth grade. I play basketball, and (sometimes) hang out with the popular kids. No one expects that I am a knitter, but I do like to knit. It all started last year, when my aunt, Tia Lina, had a baby. That was when Abuela told me and my cousin Rachel it was time for us to knit baby hats.
We knit while watching the Spurs play on TV. The game makes the knitting go by faster. For some reason Abuela didn’t trust us with sharp, long, knitting needles so she gave us little circle looms.
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