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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 15:30:54 -0600
Hey, Brenda, I wish I *had* thought of the phrase, but I can't take credit for that... However, it's a good one, and so is this discussion. Thanks to John for throwing down the gauntlet so to speak about Rapunzel and for the individual responses since then. We appreciate committee members speaking for themselves, after all, who knows these books better than the people who've studied them for much of a year and discussed them in groups before participating in the actual committee deliberations? Keep on weighing in regarding Rapunzel, the Caldecott Award, "venturesome creativity," etc. We always appreciate hearing from people who teach at any level, work with young people in public or school libraries, develop the books from the writing illustrating designing or publishing aspect, reviewers, parents, booksellers. Just reading Brenda's reference below to culling "together some old folktale motifs and crank out another serviceably illustrated folktale" offers more to think about and discuss, doesn't it?
Here's what we're doing from the CCBC end of CCBC-NET at this point. My next message will be "CCBC announcements" which will include the CCBC-NET discussion schedule. Kathleen Horning will facilitate the discussion for the next couple of weeks, emphasizing Newbery Award and Honor Books, but since comments Wringer took up some of the Caldecott discussion time (that was OK!) recently it's fine to keep on responding to John, Linnea, Brenda and others who stepped up to comment during the weekend. Keep it up!
Cheers, Ginny (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu)
That great call to arms, "venturesome creativity," comes (I believe) from the criteria list of the ALSC Notables. Isn't that right, Notable Committee members? And I may have this wrong, but I *thought* that Ginny Moore Kruse (herself!) was responsible for that particular phrase.
It's such a good phrase, and it's one many of us editors use when judging book submissions. And John, I do think it's a display of venturesome creativity to employ the Renaissance masters to help interpret a familiar text. They are an unforgiving lot, and for Zelinsky to have bent them to his will is venturesome indeed. How much easier it would have been to cull together some old folktale motifs and crank out another serviceably illustrated folktale that way!
Yours subversively,
Brenda Bowen Scholastic Press
Received on Mon 02 Feb 1998 03:30:54 PM CST
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 15:30:54 -0600
Hey, Brenda, I wish I *had* thought of the phrase, but I can't take credit for that... However, it's a good one, and so is this discussion. Thanks to John for throwing down the gauntlet so to speak about Rapunzel and for the individual responses since then. We appreciate committee members speaking for themselves, after all, who knows these books better than the people who've studied them for much of a year and discussed them in groups before participating in the actual committee deliberations? Keep on weighing in regarding Rapunzel, the Caldecott Award, "venturesome creativity," etc. We always appreciate hearing from people who teach at any level, work with young people in public or school libraries, develop the books from the writing illustrating designing or publishing aspect, reviewers, parents, booksellers. Just reading Brenda's reference below to culling "together some old folktale motifs and crank out another serviceably illustrated folktale" offers more to think about and discuss, doesn't it?
Here's what we're doing from the CCBC end of CCBC-NET at this point. My next message will be "CCBC announcements" which will include the CCBC-NET discussion schedule. Kathleen Horning will facilitate the discussion for the next couple of weeks, emphasizing Newbery Award and Honor Books, but since comments Wringer took up some of the Caldecott discussion time (that was OK!) recently it's fine to keep on responding to John, Linnea, Brenda and others who stepped up to comment during the weekend. Keep it up!
Cheers, Ginny (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu)
That great call to arms, "venturesome creativity," comes (I believe) from the criteria list of the ALSC Notables. Isn't that right, Notable Committee members? And I may have this wrong, but I *thought* that Ginny Moore Kruse (herself!) was responsible for that particular phrase.
It's such a good phrase, and it's one many of us editors use when judging book submissions. And John, I do think it's a display of venturesome creativity to employ the Renaissance masters to help interpret a familiar text. They are an unforgiving lot, and for Zelinsky to have bent them to his will is venturesome indeed. How much easier it would have been to cull together some old folktale motifs and crank out another serviceably illustrated folktale that way!
Yours subversively,
Brenda Bowen Scholastic Press
Received on Mon 02 Feb 1998 03:30:54 PM CST
