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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 16:00:00 -600
On Thursday, December 14, we gathered in the CCBC to discuss some of the books eligible for the Newbery Award for distinguished writing for children. Participants included school library media specialists, graduate students, a public librarian, three faculty teachers of literature (children's literature or freshman English) and CCBC staff. The actual Newbery Award and Honor Books will be announced at the ALSC/ALA Press Conference in San Antonio on January 22. We'll report the winners to you on CCBC-NET later that day. Outcomes: CCBC Newbery Discussion: December 14, 1995 The Winner: The Well by Mildred Taylor (Dial) Honor Books:
A. The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
B. Protecting Marie by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
C. Tonight, By Sea by Frances Temple (Orchard) Other books discussed that evening were:
- The Arkadians by Lloyd Alexander (Dutton)
- Benito's Dream Bottle by Naomi Shihab Nye (Simon & Schuster)
- The Bones in the Cliff by James Stevenson (Greenwillow)
- Sweet Corn by James Stevenson (Greenwillow)
- The Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant (Harcourt Brace)
- The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
(Delacorte)
- What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
The Well was appreciated so greatly during the CCBC Newbery and also during the CCBC Coretta Scott King: Writing discussion evenings. The two discussions involved a few of the same participants, but for the most part, a different group, very different discussion circumstances, and an entirely different mix of books.
If you participated in or located CCBC-NET "archives" to read the CCBC-NET discussion of The Midwife's Apprentice, you'll be interested to know that Chapter Seven was discussed by some as a problem in what seems to be an otherwise wonderfully written book. You may recall that the point of view in Chapter Seven is so inconsistent with that of the rest of the book. It is the only chapter without Alyce's perspective. The CCBC Newbery participants could not determine why the point of view changes, unless readers are supposed to be tricked, or - at least - surprised at the chapter's end. But is that a good reason? What are your ideas?
... Cheers, Ginny
******************************************************************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison FAX: 608&2I33
Received on Mon 18 Dec 1995 04:00:00 PM CST
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 16:00:00 -600
On Thursday, December 14, we gathered in the CCBC to discuss some of the books eligible for the Newbery Award for distinguished writing for children. Participants included school library media specialists, graduate students, a public librarian, three faculty teachers of literature (children's literature or freshman English) and CCBC staff. The actual Newbery Award and Honor Books will be announced at the ALSC/ALA Press Conference in San Antonio on January 22. We'll report the winners to you on CCBC-NET later that day. Outcomes: CCBC Newbery Discussion: December 14, 1995 The Winner: The Well by Mildred Taylor (Dial) Honor Books:
A. The Midwife's Apprentice by Karen Cushman (Clarion)
B. Protecting Marie by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow)
C. Tonight, By Sea by Frances Temple (Orchard) Other books discussed that evening were:
- The Arkadians by Lloyd Alexander (Dutton)
- Benito's Dream Bottle by Naomi Shihab Nye (Simon & Schuster)
- The Bones in the Cliff by James Stevenson (Greenwillow)
- Sweet Corn by James Stevenson (Greenwillow)
- The Van Gogh Cafe by Cynthia Rylant (Harcourt Brace)
- The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
(Delacorte)
- What Jamie Saw by Carolyn Coman (Front Street)
The Well was appreciated so greatly during the CCBC Newbery and also during the CCBC Coretta Scott King: Writing discussion evenings. The two discussions involved a few of the same participants, but for the most part, a different group, very different discussion circumstances, and an entirely different mix of books.
If you participated in or located CCBC-NET "archives" to read the CCBC-NET discussion of The Midwife's Apprentice, you'll be interested to know that Chapter Seven was discussed by some as a problem in what seems to be an otherwise wonderfully written book. You may recall that the point of view in Chapter Seven is so inconsistent with that of the rest of the book. It is the only chapter without Alyce's perspective. The CCBC Newbery participants could not determine why the point of view changes, unless readers are supposed to be tricked, or - at least - surprised at the chapter's end. But is that a good reason? What are your ideas?
... Cheers, Ginny
******************************************************************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison FAX: 608&2I33
Received on Mon 18 Dec 1995 04:00:00 PM CST
