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From: K.T. Horning <khorning>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 07:46:13 -0500 (CDT)
I'd like to thank Susan Kuklin for her generous answers to our questions about her work. I encourage CCBC-Net subscribers to continue writing about about books that reflect radical change in general, as well as Susan Kuklin's books, specifically. If anyone has any further questions for Susan, she has indicated taht she will be happy to answer them.
As a reminder, next week we plan to begin a discussion of the works of Paul Fleischman, so as you are planning your weekend reading, you may want to include a book such as "Joyful Noise," "Bull Run," "Dateline: Troy," or any other book by Paul Fleischman, on your list of books to read or reread.
I'd like to mention a new book that fits the category of multiple viewpoints AND children speaking for themselves very well: "Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen," by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne (Knopf, 1997). This book is a series of interviews conducted by middle-school students in Washington D.C. with relatives and community members who experienced the Civil Rights Movement first hand. For those of you who want more information, there is a short review of the book on the CCBC's Book of the Week website
(www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/reviews.htm). It was the featured book March 31 so you need to scroll down through the last couple of weeks to get to it. One of the things that makes the book distinctive is the fact that the
*children* conducted the interviews and they often ask different types of questions from those an adult might ask. Overall, they did a remarkable job
-- perhaps one of them will be the next Susan Kuklin!
KT Horning Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu
Received on Fri 25 Apr 1997 07:46:13 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 07:46:13 -0500 (CDT)
I'd like to thank Susan Kuklin for her generous answers to our questions about her work. I encourage CCBC-Net subscribers to continue writing about about books that reflect radical change in general, as well as Susan Kuklin's books, specifically. If anyone has any further questions for Susan, she has indicated taht she will be happy to answer them.
As a reminder, next week we plan to begin a discussion of the works of Paul Fleischman, so as you are planning your weekend reading, you may want to include a book such as "Joyful Noise," "Bull Run," "Dateline: Troy," or any other book by Paul Fleischman, on your list of books to read or reread.
I'd like to mention a new book that fits the category of multiple viewpoints AND children speaking for themselves very well: "Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement with the People Who Made It Happen," by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne (Knopf, 1997). This book is a series of interviews conducted by middle-school students in Washington D.C. with relatives and community members who experienced the Civil Rights Movement first hand. For those of you who want more information, there is a short review of the book on the CCBC's Book of the Week website
(www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/reviews.htm). It was the featured book March 31 so you need to scroll down through the last couple of weeks to get to it. One of the things that makes the book distinctive is the fact that the
*children* conducted the interviews and they often ask different types of questions from those an adult might ask. Overall, they did a remarkable job
-- perhaps one of them will be the next Susan Kuklin!
KT Horning Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison khorning at facstaff.wisc.edu
Received on Fri 25 Apr 1997 07:46:13 AM CDT
