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From: Bowen, Brenda <BBowen>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 15:02:33 -0500
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 02:02:33 PM CST
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 15:02:33 -0500
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 02:02:33 PM CST
