Anastasia’s mom Katherine is a painter, and her dad Myron is a poet and Harvard English professor. What made her parents so appealing? I thought I’d figured it out when I re-read the books during university: the Krupniks are part of that mysterious entity, the white liberal middle class. So I thought ten-year-old Anastasia Krupnik was a pretty lucky gal. Krupnik swoops out his red pen and writes on the paper, turning the “F” into “Fabulous”.Īt age eight, I remember thinking that my parents would have freaked out if I ever brought home an “F”, not that I would have told them. Her lit-professor dad carefully reads the poem, then says to his daughter: “Some people – actually, a lot of people – just don’t understand poetry.” “It doesn’t make them bad people,” her mother adds hastily. Westvessel, gives her an “F”, explaining that she expected the class to write rhyming ditties about dogs named Spot / Who eat and drink a lot.ĭevastated, Anastasia brings her poem home. How endearing were the Krupniks? In the opening chapter, Anastasia writes a poem for school, a free-verse alliterative work about “the little things that live in tide pools.” Her teacher, Mrs. Out of all the book-families I wished I belonged to when I was little, the Krupniks were right up there with the Ingalls, the Melendys, and the five little girls from All-Of-A-Kind Family.
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