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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 14:48:45 -0600
First of all, thank you to everyone who participates in CCBC-Net. This means you, even if you have not sent a message directly to the CCBC-Net Community. We know you are actively involved in thinking about what others have to say, and you often tell us individually that you download CCBC-Net messages for later use in your teaching or to share with your colleagues. However, without direct participation from at least some in the community, there would be no CCBC-Net discussion. So, a special thanks to each person who found time to write to the entire CCBC-Net community at one time or another during 1998.
As for upcoming CCBC-Net discussions, I want to remind you that we're still talking about favorites from 1997, and we'll do that this week.
On Monday, Jan. 12, the American Library Association awards will be announced, and we'll announce them on CCBC-Net that day. We'll discuss these award winners for the next several weeks. There were so many excellent books published during the past year. If you doubt that, just take a look at the widely varied listings of "formal favorites" in the January issues of journals The Horn Book, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Booklist and Book Links. Check their websites for their lists and others for the previously published lists in journals such as School Library Journal.
Megan Schliesman, Katy Horning and I are working intensively on the annual publication CCBC Choices to be released on March 7. We'll be having a staff meeting later this week to decide upon CCBC-Net discussion topics for March and April, and we'll announce these later this week.
Last May + June there were many positive CCBC-Net comments about Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman. What happened to the supporters of Seedfolks a scant few months later? Where are you?
What about other favorites, such as Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye? At the CCBC Newbery Discussion in December, we agreed that readers can open Habibi to just about any page and discover examples of distinguished writing. Nye's U.S. born protagonist Liyana makes exceptionally original remarks about first crushes, doesn't she? Liyana's observations about the Palestinian/Jewish situation in Jerusalem and the surrounding area never overwhelm the story, and yet they offer unique, important glimpses into the past and the present. There are many reasons to commend this warm, humorous, optimistic novel to a wide variety of readers. Are you one of the readers of Haibi? What do you think about it or about any other books from 1997? Sincerely, 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
Received on Mon 05 Jan 1998 02:48:45 PM CST
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 14:48:45 -0600
First of all, thank you to everyone who participates in CCBC-Net. This means you, even if you have not sent a message directly to the CCBC-Net Community. We know you are actively involved in thinking about what others have to say, and you often tell us individually that you download CCBC-Net messages for later use in your teaching or to share with your colleagues. However, without direct participation from at least some in the community, there would be no CCBC-Net discussion. So, a special thanks to each person who found time to write to the entire CCBC-Net community at one time or another during 1998.
As for upcoming CCBC-Net discussions, I want to remind you that we're still talking about favorites from 1997, and we'll do that this week.
On Monday, Jan. 12, the American Library Association awards will be announced, and we'll announce them on CCBC-Net that day. We'll discuss these award winners for the next several weeks. There were so many excellent books published during the past year. If you doubt that, just take a look at the widely varied listings of "formal favorites" in the January issues of journals The Horn Book, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, Booklist and Book Links. Check their websites for their lists and others for the previously published lists in journals such as School Library Journal.
Megan Schliesman, Katy Horning and I are working intensively on the annual publication CCBC Choices to be released on March 7. We'll be having a staff meeting later this week to decide upon CCBC-Net discussion topics for March and April, and we'll announce these later this week.
Last May + June there were many positive CCBC-Net comments about Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman. What happened to the supporters of Seedfolks a scant few months later? Where are you?
What about other favorites, such as Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye? At the CCBC Newbery Discussion in December, we agreed that readers can open Habibi to just about any page and discover examples of distinguished writing. Nye's U.S. born protagonist Liyana makes exceptionally original remarks about first crushes, doesn't she? Liyana's observations about the Palestinian/Jewish situation in Jerusalem and the surrounding area never overwhelm the story, and yet they offer unique, important glimpses into the past and the present. There are many reasons to commend this warm, humorous, optimistic novel to a wide variety of readers. Are you one of the readers of Haibi? What do you think about it or about any other books from 1997? Sincerely, 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
Received on Mon 05 Jan 1998 02:48:45 PM CST
