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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 19:40:00 -600
A couple of weeks ago, Nina Lindsay commented on looking for The Middle Passage by Tom Feelings in the children's section of a local bookstore and realizing that the clerk was unfamiliar with this book that had just been honored as a Coretta Scott King Award winner for its illustrator. I've noticed it for sale but featured for adults in the art section in several bookstores. Who has found this book, looked at it, and/or used it in some way with non?ults? adults? Tom Feelings worked more than ten years on what I consider a monumental, incomparable work of art expressing many dimensions of human and national history, horrendous corporate and individual deeds, and - amazingly - the ways in which human courage and dignity were maintained midst such suffering. It's a painful, important book. Yes, The Middle Passage costs three times as much as the average cost of a children's hardcover book. Yet I would venture that The Middle Passage can have three times the impact of most books created for young adults and older children. What are your responses to it? With what age young people do you plan to share it? How?
And what about other books honored by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards process? Last week, we touched briefly on The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963. The Watsons... received consistently favorable reviews as soon as it was published last year. Want to comment any more about this humorous first novel by Christopher Paul Curtis? What about any of the other books honored through the Coretta Scott King Awards process for outstanding writing and illustration by African-American authors and artists? Just to jog your memory, here's a reminder of the books honored by the Coretta Scott King Awards process: CSK Award - Writer -- The winner - Virginia Hamilton for Her Stories (Blue Sky/Scholastic) CSK Honor Books - 1) Jacqueline Woodson for From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (Scholastic); 2) Rita Williams-Garcia for Like Sisters on the Homefront (Lodestar); and 3) John Paul Christopher for The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (Delacorte) CSK Award - Illustrator -The winner - Tom Feelings for The Middle Passage; White Ships/Black Cargo (Dial) CSK Honor Books - 1) Brian Pinkney for The Faithful Friend retold by Robert D. San Souci (Simon & Schuster); and 2) Leo [and Diane] Dillon for Her Stories compiled by Virginia Hamilton (Blue Sky/Scholastic) CSK Genesis Award (for an author or illustrator with a maximum of three published books - first awarded in 1995 to Sharon Draper for Tears of a Tiger) No Genesis Award this year
.. 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
Received on Wed 21 Feb 1996 07:40:00 PM CST
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 19:40:00 -600
A couple of weeks ago, Nina Lindsay commented on looking for The Middle Passage by Tom Feelings in the children's section of a local bookstore and realizing that the clerk was unfamiliar with this book that had just been honored as a Coretta Scott King Award winner for its illustrator. I've noticed it for sale but featured for adults in the art section in several bookstores. Who has found this book, looked at it, and/or used it in some way with non?ults? adults? Tom Feelings worked more than ten years on what I consider a monumental, incomparable work of art expressing many dimensions of human and national history, horrendous corporate and individual deeds, and - amazingly - the ways in which human courage and dignity were maintained midst such suffering. It's a painful, important book. Yes, The Middle Passage costs three times as much as the average cost of a children's hardcover book. Yet I would venture that The Middle Passage can have three times the impact of most books created for young adults and older children. What are your responses to it? With what age young people do you plan to share it? How?
And what about other books honored by the Coretta Scott King Book Awards process? Last week, we touched briefly on The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963. The Watsons... received consistently favorable reviews as soon as it was published last year. Want to comment any more about this humorous first novel by Christopher Paul Curtis? What about any of the other books honored through the Coretta Scott King Awards process for outstanding writing and illustration by African-American authors and artists? Just to jog your memory, here's a reminder of the books honored by the Coretta Scott King Awards process: CSK Award - Writer -- The winner - Virginia Hamilton for Her Stories (Blue Sky/Scholastic) CSK Honor Books - 1) Jacqueline Woodson for From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun (Scholastic); 2) Rita Williams-Garcia for Like Sisters on the Homefront (Lodestar); and 3) John Paul Christopher for The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 (Delacorte) CSK Award - Illustrator -The winner - Tom Feelings for The Middle Passage; White Ships/Black Cargo (Dial) CSK Honor Books - 1) Brian Pinkney for The Faithful Friend retold by Robert D. San Souci (Simon & Schuster); and 2) Leo [and Diane] Dillon for Her Stories compiled by Virginia Hamilton (Blue Sky/Scholastic) CSK Genesis Award (for an author or illustrator with a maximum of three published books - first awarded in 1995 to Sharon Draper for Tears of a Tiger) No Genesis Award this year
.. 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
Received on Wed 21 Feb 1996 07:40:00 PM CST
