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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 21:22:31 -0500
Thanks for the good preview of your forthcoming books, Paul. The CCBC community of readers will await each one with your marvelous comments about creating texts as the context for reading these new books (and earlier books, as well) bearing your name. You've been a perfect guest, and we hope you'll remain with CCBC-NET or return at any time. We'll probably be talking about your books most of the summer in real time with each other, referring to what you or we said during the past weeks. We'll be remembering the student readers of Bull Run in Alabama (and looking forward to Whiligig); the various comments about Dateline: Troy; the responses to Joyful Noise and I Am Phoenix (and waiting for the quartet approach in Big Talk - hey, we never talked about your book Rondo in C, did we?); thinking about all the fine books you've written that we never even got around to mentioning; and reflecting on some of the Seedfolks while we work in our gardens or watch others through our windows, our various windows. A few of us will probably be in San Francisco near the end of June to hear you and your father Sid Fleischman speak at the ALA/ALSC preconference, and we'll introduce ourselves to you in person then or at another event in the future. Thanks for taking time out from the string figures to be with us, Paul. Most especially, thank you for the substantial, inventive ways you involve young readers in various pleasures of literature. Sincerely, Ginny
******************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at facstaff.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
Books are like postcards from abroad: by the time they reach the reader, the writer has moved on to a different country. In my case, several are on their way. The first to reach you will be WHIRLIGIG, next spring, a young adult book that takes the format begun in BULL RUN a step further toward the novel. It's the account of a boy's round-the-country rite of repentance building whirligigs, interspersed with the very different stories of four people whose lives are altered by his creations. It's my longest book, set in the present, and resembles a whirligig, with multiple moving parts.
The timing of the books that follow isn't clear yet. But I can report that graduates of I AM PHOENIX and JOYFUL NOISE will at last have something new to join voices in. It's a collection of three poems for four voices, tentatively titled BIG TALK. The pieces are longer than those in the earlier books. Readers who don't play violin can now taste the joys of being in a quartet. I debated calling the book KITCHEN TABLE QUARTET, which gives the picture of how I hope the book will be used.
Two picture books are likewise on the way: WESLANDIA, about a boy who invents his own backyard civilization, and LOST! A STORY IN STRING, a tale accompanied by string figures and followed by instructions on making them. I've spent the last several weeks with string on my fingers, trying out hundreds of combinations of moves, speaking into a voice?tivated tape recorder so that when I saw what I wanted I'd know how I got there. It's an original series of eight string figures, one growing out of the next, as in Cat's Cradle (but for one person). I've just finished. There's a Candlewick book whose title sums up my feelings--A PIECE OF STRING IS A WONDERFUL THING.
That brings us up to date. It's been a pleasure hearing from the group. Thank you, Ginny.
Paul Fleischman
Received on Tue 03 Jun 1997 09:22:31 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 21:22:31 -0500
Thanks for the good preview of your forthcoming books, Paul. The CCBC community of readers will await each one with your marvelous comments about creating texts as the context for reading these new books (and earlier books, as well) bearing your name. You've been a perfect guest, and we hope you'll remain with CCBC-NET or return at any time. We'll probably be talking about your books most of the summer in real time with each other, referring to what you or we said during the past weeks. We'll be remembering the student readers of Bull Run in Alabama (and looking forward to Whiligig); the various comments about Dateline: Troy; the responses to Joyful Noise and I Am Phoenix (and waiting for the quartet approach in Big Talk - hey, we never talked about your book Rondo in C, did we?); thinking about all the fine books you've written that we never even got around to mentioning; and reflecting on some of the Seedfolks while we work in our gardens or watch others through our windows, our various windows. A few of us will probably be in San Francisco near the end of June to hear you and your father Sid Fleischman speak at the ALA/ALSC preconference, and we'll introduce ourselves to you in person then or at another event in the future. Thanks for taking time out from the string figures to be with us, Paul. Most especially, thank you for the substantial, inventive ways you involve young readers in various pleasures of literature. Sincerely, Ginny
******************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at facstaff.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
Books are like postcards from abroad: by the time they reach the reader, the writer has moved on to a different country. In my case, several are on their way. The first to reach you will be WHIRLIGIG, next spring, a young adult book that takes the format begun in BULL RUN a step further toward the novel. It's the account of a boy's round-the-country rite of repentance building whirligigs, interspersed with the very different stories of four people whose lives are altered by his creations. It's my longest book, set in the present, and resembles a whirligig, with multiple moving parts.
The timing of the books that follow isn't clear yet. But I can report that graduates of I AM PHOENIX and JOYFUL NOISE will at last have something new to join voices in. It's a collection of three poems for four voices, tentatively titled BIG TALK. The pieces are longer than those in the earlier books. Readers who don't play violin can now taste the joys of being in a quartet. I debated calling the book KITCHEN TABLE QUARTET, which gives the picture of how I hope the book will be used.
Two picture books are likewise on the way: WESLANDIA, about a boy who invents his own backyard civilization, and LOST! A STORY IN STRING, a tale accompanied by string figures and followed by instructions on making them. I've spent the last several weeks with string on my fingers, trying out hundreds of combinations of moves, speaking into a voice?tivated tape recorder so that when I saw what I wanted I'd know how I got there. It's an original series of eight string figures, one growing out of the next, as in Cat's Cradle (but for one person). I've just finished. There's a Candlewick book whose title sums up my feelings--A PIECE OF STRING IS A WONDERFUL THING.
That brings us up to date. It's been a pleasure hearing from the group. Thank you, Ginny.
Paul Fleischman
Received on Tue 03 Jun 1997 09:22:31 PM CDT
