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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 19:17:15 -0500
Who has seen and/or read Dateline Troy (Candlewick, 1996)? If you have, what are your experiences with Paul Fleischman's 33 sound bite passages through which he alternately rewrites The Iliad and presents collages of newspaper fragments reporting 20th century strife: warfare, murders terrorist acts, celebrity scandals, human rights abuses, corruption, sexism, abandonment - and more. Do you think Fleischman ran too great a risk by demonstrating his remarkable versatility as a writer by reworking a classic by Homer in this way? In your opinion, did he succeed? ... Ginny Moore Kruse
(gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu)
********************************* Ginny Moore Kruse, Director 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
Received on Mon 12 May 1997 07:17:15 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 19:17:15 -0500
Who has seen and/or read Dateline Troy (Candlewick, 1996)? If you have, what are your experiences with Paul Fleischman's 33 sound bite passages through which he alternately rewrites The Iliad and presents collages of newspaper fragments reporting 20th century strife: warfare, murders terrorist acts, celebrity scandals, human rights abuses, corruption, sexism, abandonment - and more. Do you think Fleischman ran too great a risk by demonstrating his remarkable versatility as a writer by reworking a classic by Homer in this way? In your opinion, did he succeed? ... Ginny Moore Kruse
(gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu)
********************************* Ginny Moore Kruse, Director 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
Received on Mon 12 May 1997 07:17:15 PM CDT
