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From: Chris Dowling <cdowling>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 16:09:28 -0600
I agree with Megan's comments about Russell Freedman's biographies. I especially admire Freedman's approach in Eleanor Roosevelt
(Clarion, 1993). Young readers of this fine work who read more about her as adults will realize that Freedman did not lie to them when they were younger. I also appreciate the format he and his publishers have developed for presenting biographical writing, one devloped earlier to such advantage in books such as Lincoln (Clarion, 1987), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Clarion, 1990), and The Wright Brothers (Holiday House, 1991). I notice an equally powerful, similar impact in the biography A Twilight Struggle: The Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Barbara Harrison and Daniel Terris (Lothrop, 1992). All were challenging subjects about whom to write, all were written with integrity and presented handsomely. Entirely different and yet successful approaches to writing for middle school readers about challenging biographical subjects can be seen in Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton
(Knopf, 1988; pbk. Knopf, 1992); in Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic, 1993; pbk. Scholastic, 1994); and in Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack (Scholastic, 1992; pbk. Scholastic, 1994). Do you agree?
.. Ginny
********************************************************************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall, University of Wisconsin - Madison Public service hours between now and August 2: Monday - Friday 10:00am - 4:00pm; Also: Saturdays 10:00am - 1:00pm for seven weeks beginning the week of June 17; phone for appointments to use the CCBC at other times during the summer.
Received on Wed 22 May 1996 05:09:28 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 16:09:28 -0600
I agree with Megan's comments about Russell Freedman's biographies. I especially admire Freedman's approach in Eleanor Roosevelt
(Clarion, 1993). Young readers of this fine work who read more about her as adults will realize that Freedman did not lie to them when they were younger. I also appreciate the format he and his publishers have developed for presenting biographical writing, one devloped earlier to such advantage in books such as Lincoln (Clarion, 1987), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Clarion, 1990), and The Wright Brothers (Holiday House, 1991). I notice an equally powerful, similar impact in the biography A Twilight Struggle: The Life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy by Barbara Harrison and Daniel Terris (Lothrop, 1992). All were challenging subjects about whom to write, all were written with integrity and presented handsomely. Entirely different and yet successful approaches to writing for middle school readers about challenging biographical subjects can be seen in Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave by Virginia Hamilton
(Knopf, 1988; pbk. Knopf, 1992); in Malcolm X: By Any Means Necessary by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic, 1993; pbk. Scholastic, 1994); and in Sojourner Truth: Ain't I A Woman by Patricia and Fredrick McKissack (Scholastic, 1992; pbk. Scholastic, 1994). Do you agree?
.. Ginny
********************************************************************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall, University of Wisconsin - Madison Public service hours between now and August 2: Monday - Friday 10:00am - 4:00pm; Also: Saturdays 10:00am - 1:00pm for seven weeks beginning the week of June 17; phone for appointments to use the CCBC at other times during the summer.
Received on Wed 22 May 1996 05:09:28 PM CDT
