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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:00:00 -600
Diane referred to Henry's concern about outward appearances. Does this make him a shallow person? Is it because he's an artist, and he thinks visually much of the time?
Kevin Henkes spent three mornings in the CCBC during recent days creating an exhibit "Protecting Marie: Images, Objects & Notes." If you can get to the CCBC during the next two months (and I hope you can), you'll see some of the things that inspired Kevin as he wrote Protecting Marie, including the handmade Love and Happiness mug from which Fanny drinks cocoa and strawberry tea. His "characters notebook" is in the exhibit, and so is a copy of the Franz Marc painting on the book jacket - and much more. One of his notes refers to "skating imagery" in several places in the novel. Do you remember this?
And what about the remarkable passage on the last pages of Protecting Marie in which Timothy and Fanny talk on a February day when signs of spring can be seen. I'm struck by Fanny's declaration that she wants to be a linguist and to create new words, too. And, as Beth Wright said one day: the final sentence is perfect. Do you agree? Where else in the novel do you find Fanny's interest in words? Signs of spring, new beginnings?
How about it, readers? Will you share some of your responses to what's been said earlier by Michele, Nina, Diane and others? We want to hear from you, too.
Cordially, 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 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706 USA
Received on Wed 17 Jan 1996 09:00:00 PM CST
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 21:00:00 -600
Diane referred to Henry's concern about outward appearances. Does this make him a shallow person? Is it because he's an artist, and he thinks visually much of the time?
Kevin Henkes spent three mornings in the CCBC during recent days creating an exhibit "Protecting Marie: Images, Objects & Notes." If you can get to the CCBC during the next two months (and I hope you can), you'll see some of the things that inspired Kevin as he wrote Protecting Marie, including the handmade Love and Happiness mug from which Fanny drinks cocoa and strawberry tea. His "characters notebook" is in the exhibit, and so is a copy of the Franz Marc painting on the book jacket - and much more. One of his notes refers to "skating imagery" in several places in the novel. Do you remember this?
And what about the remarkable passage on the last pages of Protecting Marie in which Timothy and Fanny talk on a February day when signs of spring can be seen. I'm struck by Fanny's declaration that she wants to be a linguist and to create new words, too. And, as Beth Wright said one day: the final sentence is perfect. Do you agree? Where else in the novel do you find Fanny's interest in words? Signs of spring, new beginnings?
How about it, readers? Will you share some of your responses to what's been said earlier by Michele, Nina, Diane and others? We want to hear from you, too.
Cordially, 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 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706 USA
Received on Wed 17 Jan 1996 09:00:00 PM CST
