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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 17:25:55 -0500
Thanks, Shawn, for your fine tribute to Dawn by Molly Bang, Sun & Spoon by Kevin Henkes, and to your chosen profession of public library youth services. Getting books we enjoy and admire to young readers can be one of the joys of many types of careers.
Karen Wendt wrote about the memorable stories/lies she recalls Lily telling in Lilly's Crossing. What do some of the rest of you remember about Lily, about the ways Giff shows who Lily is and who Lily becomes during the course of her story? ... Ginny
******************************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison Corner of Observatory Drive & N. Park 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St. Maidson, WI 53706 USA
10/6/97, 01:12pm >>>
I've just returned home after an Autumn mini-vacation and I want to add some final thoughts - feelings - to our discussion of Molly Bang's books.
When I was in college, I shelved children's books at the public library.
(Touching every book and caring for them gave me an appreciation for children's library books for which I am ever grateful.) I remember reading DAWN for the first time, shortly after it was published, and weeping in the workroom. I feel that DAWN - and my initial, intuitive response - is one of inspirations and guides for pursuing youth services in libraries as a career.
... and what a joyous, fulfilling career it is ...
It is the grand emotional impact of certain children's books that makes me aware of my Self, my connection to characters and my connection to the world and All around me. My emotional response to a dancing paper crane, a mysterious, beautiful weaver-wife, and to a young boy's realization that "M is always for Martha" (thank you, Kevin Henkes - I now see the palm of my hand in a new, brilliant light) makes me weep - smile - rejoice.
Shawn Brommer - Southern Tier Library System stl_shawn at chstls.org
Received on Mon 06 Oct 1997 05:25:55 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 17:25:55 -0500
Thanks, Shawn, for your fine tribute to Dawn by Molly Bang, Sun & Spoon by Kevin Henkes, and to your chosen profession of public library youth services. Getting books we enjoy and admire to young readers can be one of the joys of many types of careers.
Karen Wendt wrote about the memorable stories/lies she recalls Lily telling in Lilly's Crossing. What do some of the rest of you remember about Lily, about the ways Giff shows who Lily is and who Lily becomes during the course of her story? ... Ginny
******************************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison Corner of Observatory Drive & N. Park 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St. Maidson, WI 53706 USA
10/6/97, 01:12pm >>>
I've just returned home after an Autumn mini-vacation and I want to add some final thoughts - feelings - to our discussion of Molly Bang's books.
When I was in college, I shelved children's books at the public library.
(Touching every book and caring for them gave me an appreciation for children's library books for which I am ever grateful.) I remember reading DAWN for the first time, shortly after it was published, and weeping in the workroom. I feel that DAWN - and my initial, intuitive response - is one of inspirations and guides for pursuing youth services in libraries as a career.
... and what a joyous, fulfilling career it is ...
It is the grand emotional impact of certain children's books that makes me aware of my Self, my connection to characters and my connection to the world and All around me. My emotional response to a dancing paper crane, a mysterious, beautiful weaver-wife, and to a young boy's realization that "M is always for Martha" (thank you, Kevin Henkes - I now see the palm of my hand in a new, brilliant light) makes me weep - smile - rejoice.
Shawn Brommer - Southern Tier Library System stl_shawn at chstls.org
Received on Mon 06 Oct 1997 05:25:55 PM CDT
