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From: Violet Harris <vjharris>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:10:26 -0500 (CDT)
I have enjoyed the comments and will incorporate as many perspectives as possible in a course I will teach this fall, Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature. I grapple with many of the issues discussed thus far and have no firm conclusions. My reading list is late because there are simply too many books that I want to share with students and students, even graduate ones, balk at reading 30 books per semester. Am I being too demanding?
Here are some of my favorite "classics" although they do not fit all of the criteria: Junius Over Far and The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton; Come Sing Jimmy Jo, Lyddy, and Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson, A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant; Scorpions and Somewhere In Darkness by Walter Dean Myers; biographies of Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus and histories of African Americans, Chinese Americans, and a collection of essays by Milton Meltzer; The Way Things Work by David MacCauley; Dorling-Kindersly History of Music; The Middle Passage by Tom Feelings, James Giblin's Chimney Sweep, When Plague Strikes, and books about eating utensils, chairs,etc., Russell Freedman's An Indian Winter, and biographies of Lincoln, FDR, and E. Roosevelt; and Lucille Clifton's The Times They Used to Be.
Received on Mon 21 Jul 1997 11:10:26 AM CDT
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 11:10:26 -0500 (CDT)
I have enjoyed the comments and will incorporate as many perspectives as possible in a course I will teach this fall, Contemporary Classics in Children's Literature. I grapple with many of the issues discussed thus far and have no firm conclusions. My reading list is late because there are simply too many books that I want to share with students and students, even graduate ones, balk at reading 30 books per semester. Am I being too demanding?
Here are some of my favorite "classics" although they do not fit all of the criteria: Junius Over Far and The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl by Virginia Hamilton; Come Sing Jimmy Jo, Lyddy, and Jacob Have I Loved by Katherine Paterson, A Fine White Dust by Cynthia Rylant; Scorpions and Somewhere In Darkness by Walter Dean Myers; biographies of Thomas Jefferson, Christopher Columbus and histories of African Americans, Chinese Americans, and a collection of essays by Milton Meltzer; The Way Things Work by David MacCauley; Dorling-Kindersly History of Music; The Middle Passage by Tom Feelings, James Giblin's Chimney Sweep, When Plague Strikes, and books about eating utensils, chairs,etc., Russell Freedman's An Indian Winter, and biographies of Lincoln, FDR, and E. Roosevelt; and Lucille Clifton's The Times They Used to Be.
Received on Mon 21 Jul 1997 11:10:26 AM CDT
