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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 08:57:20 -0500
How did Carrie recall so much without having Lily's Crossing in front of her? (see below) I should have enumerated what I meant about "obvious elements of WW2," i.e., a father or a brother in military service, etc. My clumsily worded query was intended to imply exactly the type of detail Carrie pointed out for us. Carrie started a list of details anchoring Lily's Crossing to the World War II years in the in the USA. Who can add to what Carrie noticed? Often an author's careful research and incorporation of historical detail is too much for young readers who need a story to move - and quickly. How does Lily's Crossing measure up?
... 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
Well, I think it is important to talk about what Ginny calls the "obvious elements of World War II," because it is those everyday things that were so specific to that time period that will make the book real for children. The ones that come to my mind (I don't have the book in front of me) are: black out shades; painting over the headlights; no butter/sugar for cookies; Lily's being able to identify the planes that fly overhead; letters being blacked out by censors; the constant war news on the radio. The only non-war related details I can think of immediately are Lily and her grandmother listening to the radio soap opera, the kinds of candy she and Margaret were eating and the mention of a few popular songs. Of course, I don't think that many people still summer in Rockaway, either (though I could absolutely be wrong about that--please correct me if I am). Even Lily's lying problem is expressed most dramatically in lies having to do with the war--her Aunt's involvement, her Dad's involvement, her big lie to Albert about being able to travel to Europe in the convoy. I will be interested to see what non-war related details others mentioned that I missed.
******************************** Carrie Schadle Aguilar Branch, New York Public Library bz227 at freenet.buffalo.edu 212/534)30
Received on Sat 04 Oct 1997 08:57:20 AM CDT
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 08:57:20 -0500
How did Carrie recall so much without having Lily's Crossing in front of her? (see below) I should have enumerated what I meant about "obvious elements of WW2," i.e., a father or a brother in military service, etc. My clumsily worded query was intended to imply exactly the type of detail Carrie pointed out for us. Carrie started a list of details anchoring Lily's Crossing to the World War II years in the in the USA. Who can add to what Carrie noticed? Often an author's careful research and incorporation of historical detail is too much for young readers who need a story to move - and quickly. How does Lily's Crossing measure up?
... 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
Well, I think it is important to talk about what Ginny calls the "obvious elements of World War II," because it is those everyday things that were so specific to that time period that will make the book real for children. The ones that come to my mind (I don't have the book in front of me) are: black out shades; painting over the headlights; no butter/sugar for cookies; Lily's being able to identify the planes that fly overhead; letters being blacked out by censors; the constant war news on the radio. The only non-war related details I can think of immediately are Lily and her grandmother listening to the radio soap opera, the kinds of candy she and Margaret were eating and the mention of a few popular songs. Of course, I don't think that many people still summer in Rockaway, either (though I could absolutely be wrong about that--please correct me if I am). Even Lily's lying problem is expressed most dramatically in lies having to do with the war--her Aunt's involvement, her Dad's involvement, her big lie to Albert about being able to travel to Europe in the convoy. I will be interested to see what non-war related details others mentioned that I missed.
******************************** Carrie Schadle Aguilar Branch, New York Public Library bz227 at freenet.buffalo.edu 212/534)30
Received on Sat 04 Oct 1997 08:57:20 AM CDT
