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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 14:37:00 -600
Frances Temple died suddenly in July, 1995, while walking in the park near their home with her husband. Earlier that day she had completed and mailed the manuscript for The Beduins' Gazelle to her editor Richard Jackson. Although young readers cannot benefit from what else Frances Temple might have written for them had she been granted a long life in years, they do have five incomparable books: Taste of Salt; Grab Hands and Run; Tonight, By Sea; The Ramsay Scallop and The Beduins' Gazelle (all first published by Orchard).
It's up to us - adults who understand the excellence of her published works - to continue to find ways to connect her books with with readers both now and in the future. Ruth Gordon commented on the excellence of Temple's diction. Yes, Temple created distinctive characters in a particular context, a place, a time, a social structure, a believeable community of concern and hope. She did this with compassion and with the radical notion that young readers can and will understand people they cannot meet, perhaps, except through story. Frances Temple's contributions to the 1995 UW-Madison conference Images of Community made it clear that she had a profound understanding of Community.
I suggest that you treat yourself to the reading of Frances Temple's entry in the Seventh Book of Junior Authors (H.W. Wilson, 1996). She drafted this first person autobiographical statement shortly before she died.
You might also retrieve the July, 1995, CCBC-NET archives; they include several lengthy comments about Frances Temple, beginning with a message on July 5 titled "Sad News." Katy Horning reminded us a few days ago how to access CCBC-NET archives (write in the subject line: get CCBC-NET 07.1995).
And then... read and re-read the books by Frances Temple. Suggest them to young people in your lives, teach them, sell them, give them as gifts, talk about them. Yes, talk about them... This is the way you each have to grant Frances Temple a longer life than she was otherwise given. What else have you noticed about any or all of Frances Temple's books? Sincerely, Ginny Moore Kruse
(gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu)
Received on Thu 27 Jun 1996 03:37:00 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 14:37:00 -600
Frances Temple died suddenly in July, 1995, while walking in the park near their home with her husband. Earlier that day she had completed and mailed the manuscript for The Beduins' Gazelle to her editor Richard Jackson. Although young readers cannot benefit from what else Frances Temple might have written for them had she been granted a long life in years, they do have five incomparable books: Taste of Salt; Grab Hands and Run; Tonight, By Sea; The Ramsay Scallop and The Beduins' Gazelle (all first published by Orchard).
It's up to us - adults who understand the excellence of her published works - to continue to find ways to connect her books with with readers both now and in the future. Ruth Gordon commented on the excellence of Temple's diction. Yes, Temple created distinctive characters in a particular context, a place, a time, a social structure, a believeable community of concern and hope. She did this with compassion and with the radical notion that young readers can and will understand people they cannot meet, perhaps, except through story. Frances Temple's contributions to the 1995 UW-Madison conference Images of Community made it clear that she had a profound understanding of Community.
I suggest that you treat yourself to the reading of Frances Temple's entry in the Seventh Book of Junior Authors (H.W. Wilson, 1996). She drafted this first person autobiographical statement shortly before she died.
You might also retrieve the July, 1995, CCBC-NET archives; they include several lengthy comments about Frances Temple, beginning with a message on July 5 titled "Sad News." Katy Horning reminded us a few days ago how to access CCBC-NET archives (write in the subject line: get CCBC-NET 07.1995).
And then... read and re-read the books by Frances Temple. Suggest them to young people in your lives, teach them, sell them, give them as gifts, talk about them. Yes, talk about them... This is the way you each have to grant Frances Temple a longer life than she was otherwise given. What else have you noticed about any or all of Frances Temple's books? Sincerely, Ginny Moore Kruse
(gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu)
Received on Thu 27 Jun 1996 03:37:00 PM CDT
