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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:21:00 -600
You are amazing! You've shared the titles of dozens of books you've read during the past year along with reasons for appreciating them (or not appreciating them - always helpful, too), and you aren't finished yet! That's OK. Keep those titles coming, and let all of us know the outcomes of your local or regional Newbery, Caldecott, and other book award discussions.
Chris Dowling reminds us every month how to go back to the messages posted during previous months. For example, if you want to look at the titles mentioned during December, write to listserv at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu and in the subject line write: get ccbc-net dec1996 - just as I wrote it here.
Many other excellent books were published during 1996. For example, have you seen Kofi and His Magic by Maya Angelou, a celebration of culture and imagination illustrated with stunning photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke (Potter, 1996)? Have you read The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto, translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano (U.S. edition: Farrar), a wonderfully written first novel set in contemporary Japan. If The Friends were eligible for the Newbery Award (and it is not), many of you would know it by now and probably would be raving about it.
Megan, K.T. and I are making our final selections for the publication CCBC Choices 1996 this week; after this annual publication becomes available (mid-March), you'll be able to read about these fine books and many others not yet mentioned on CCBC-NET.
Keep those favorites coming. However, let's also begin commenting on two books written by Lois Lowry: Number the Stars and The Giver. An adult friend who is not a teacher or librarian but is very interested in and knowledgable about Holocaust literature for adults read Number the Stars while she was our house guest last month. After completing it, she asked what all the excitement is about. She demanded to know why a prestigious award [Newbery] had been given to this book. She found Number the Stars to be facile and simplistic - in short, far from her idea of distinguished writing. What would you have said to her about why Number the Stars is a successful book? Why or why not would you recommend it for children? If yes, how young? ...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 Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu)
Received on Fri 10 Jan 1997 12:21:00 PM CST
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:21:00 -600
You are amazing! You've shared the titles of dozens of books you've read during the past year along with reasons for appreciating them (or not appreciating them - always helpful, too), and you aren't finished yet! That's OK. Keep those titles coming, and let all of us know the outcomes of your local or regional Newbery, Caldecott, and other book award discussions.
Chris Dowling reminds us every month how to go back to the messages posted during previous months. For example, if you want to look at the titles mentioned during December, write to listserv at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu and in the subject line write: get ccbc-net dec1996 - just as I wrote it here.
Many other excellent books were published during 1996. For example, have you seen Kofi and His Magic by Maya Angelou, a celebration of culture and imagination illustrated with stunning photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke (Potter, 1996)? Have you read The Friends by Kazumi Yumoto, translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano (U.S. edition: Farrar), a wonderfully written first novel set in contemporary Japan. If The Friends were eligible for the Newbery Award (and it is not), many of you would know it by now and probably would be raving about it.
Megan, K.T. and I are making our final selections for the publication CCBC Choices 1996 this week; after this annual publication becomes available (mid-March), you'll be able to read about these fine books and many others not yet mentioned on CCBC-NET.
Keep those favorites coming. However, let's also begin commenting on two books written by Lois Lowry: Number the Stars and The Giver. An adult friend who is not a teacher or librarian but is very interested in and knowledgable about Holocaust literature for adults read Number the Stars while she was our house guest last month. After completing it, she asked what all the excitement is about. She demanded to know why a prestigious award [Newbery] had been given to this book. She found Number the Stars to be facile and simplistic - in short, far from her idea of distinguished writing. What would you have said to her about why Number the Stars is a successful book? Why or why not would you recommend it for children? If yes, how young? ...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 Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu)
Received on Fri 10 Jan 1997 12:21:00 PM CST
