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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 11:55:00 -600
Have you noticed that the pair of visual moons at the end of the novel can also be see at the bottom of page 149?
Discovering this symbol at the conclusion of Walk Two Moons provided me with a subtle visual closure. On page 149, the two small moons punctuate a end of a sad, grim passage - a quite different use.
During my first reading, I noticed only the moons at the end. Maybe the visual moons also appear on other pages within the novel. If so, they eluded my racing eye and brain during the second time I read Walk Two Moons. I'm curious to know if I'm the one of the only readers who missed this during the first reading. If you did notice the moons on page 149 or somewhere else withing the novel, when did you see them - during your first or during a subsequent reading? Did it matter to you that they are there? Do the visaul moons on page 149 offer added meaning to CCBC-NET readers of Walk Two Moons? Did I miss visual moons on other pages because I was so caught up in the experience of the printed text? If so, where did you find them?
If you no longer have the book at hand, two tiny visual moons identical to the ones at the end of the book conclude the passage about the baby's death and Sal's suggestion for its name: "The name came to me from the air. 'Tulip,' I said. / "My father smiled. 'Your mother will like that. We'll bury the baby in the little cemetery near aspen grove - where the tulips come up every spring.' / My mother had two operations in the next two days. She wouldn't stop bleeding. Later, my mother said, 'They took out all my equipment.' She would not have any more babies." [Here are the visual two little moons at the bottom of the page.]
Sharon, if the visual moons and their placement within the text were your idea, will you talk a bit about the origin? If this wasn't your idea, where/how/with whom did the little visual moons originate? Were you consulted? Does the British edition of Walk Two Moons contain visual moons in the same places?
We would also be interested in knowing about changes or additions to Walk Two Moons during its final evolution from being a manuscript into a printed, published book. I'm asking about the galley proof stages of the book, not the basic revisions about which you've been providing such helpful comments and responses.
... Ginny
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Ginny Moore Kruse CCBC-NET e-mail: gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706 USA Personal e-mail: gmkruse at macc.wisc.edu CCBC fax: 608&2I33
Received on Fri 28 Jul 1995 12:55:00 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 11:55:00 -600
Have you noticed that the pair of visual moons at the end of the novel can also be see at the bottom of page 149?
Discovering this symbol at the conclusion of Walk Two Moons provided me with a subtle visual closure. On page 149, the two small moons punctuate a end of a sad, grim passage - a quite different use.
During my first reading, I noticed only the moons at the end. Maybe the visual moons also appear on other pages within the novel. If so, they eluded my racing eye and brain during the second time I read Walk Two Moons. I'm curious to know if I'm the one of the only readers who missed this during the first reading. If you did notice the moons on page 149 or somewhere else withing the novel, when did you see them - during your first or during a subsequent reading? Did it matter to you that they are there? Do the visaul moons on page 149 offer added meaning to CCBC-NET readers of Walk Two Moons? Did I miss visual moons on other pages because I was so caught up in the experience of the printed text? If so, where did you find them?
If you no longer have the book at hand, two tiny visual moons identical to the ones at the end of the book conclude the passage about the baby's death and Sal's suggestion for its name: "The name came to me from the air. 'Tulip,' I said. / "My father smiled. 'Your mother will like that. We'll bury the baby in the little cemetery near aspen grove - where the tulips come up every spring.' / My mother had two operations in the next two days. She wouldn't stop bleeding. Later, my mother said, 'They took out all my equipment.' She would not have any more babies." [Here are the visual two little moons at the bottom of the page.]
Sharon, if the visual moons and their placement within the text were your idea, will you talk a bit about the origin? If this wasn't your idea, where/how/with whom did the little visual moons originate? Were you consulted? Does the British edition of Walk Two Moons contain visual moons in the same places?
We would also be interested in knowing about changes or additions to Walk Two Moons during its final evolution from being a manuscript into a printed, published book. I'm asking about the galley proof stages of the book, not the basic revisions about which you've been providing such helpful comments and responses.
... Ginny
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Ginny Moore Kruse CCBC-NET e-mail: gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706 USA Personal e-mail: gmkruse at macc.wisc.edu CCBC fax: 608&2I33
Received on Fri 28 Jul 1995 12:55:00 PM CDT
