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From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:32:30 -0600
I don't know if many people have had a chance yet to read Joyce Hansen's novel, "I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, A Freed Girl." I most highly recommend it if you haven't read it yet. Patsy's diary covers a period from the end of the U.S. Civil War, April 1865, to Emancipation Day, January 1, 1866, as seen through the eyes of a 12 year old girl on a South Carolina plantation.
When we discussed this book in our annual CSK Awards Discussion, a number of teachers who had been using the books with children in elementary school classrooms indicated that this book was the hands-down favorite and quickly became wildly popular, particularly with 5th grade girls, many of whom bought it at their school Book Fair (in hardcover!).
A fourth grade teacher also told us she was reading it aloud in her classroom and that it easily held the attention of both girls and boys.
Has anyone else out there had responses to this book from children? Or do you have your own responses you'd like to add?
Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison Room 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706 Telephone: 608&3720 FAX: 608&2I33 ccbcinfo at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/
10:57AM >>> We want to invite the CCBC-NET community to now turn its attention to the Coretta Scott King Award winners and honor books.
The Coretta Scott King Awards honor outstanding writing and illustration by African American book creators. There is both an Author award and an Illustrator award. (For more information about this award, check out the press release announcing this year's winners and honor books at http://www.ala.org/news/v3n11/v3n11d.html)
Coming off of our Newbery discussion, why don't we start by discussing this year's Coretta Scott King Author Award winner and honor books. They are:
Winner: Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper (Atheneum)
Honor Books:
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, A Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic)
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins (Hyperion)
Megan Schliesman Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison schliesman at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 18 Feb 1998 12:32:30 PM CST
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 12:32:30 -0600
I don't know if many people have had a chance yet to read Joyce Hansen's novel, "I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, A Freed Girl." I most highly recommend it if you haven't read it yet. Patsy's diary covers a period from the end of the U.S. Civil War, April 1865, to Emancipation Day, January 1, 1866, as seen through the eyes of a 12 year old girl on a South Carolina plantation.
When we discussed this book in our annual CSK Awards Discussion, a number of teachers who had been using the books with children in elementary school classrooms indicated that this book was the hands-down favorite and quickly became wildly popular, particularly with 5th grade girls, many of whom bought it at their school Book Fair (in hardcover!).
A fourth grade teacher also told us she was reading it aloud in her classroom and that it easily held the attention of both girls and boys.
Has anyone else out there had responses to this book from children? Or do you have your own responses you'd like to add?
Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison Room 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706 Telephone: 608&3720 FAX: 608&2I33 ccbcinfo at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/
10:57AM >>> We want to invite the CCBC-NET community to now turn its attention to the Coretta Scott King Award winners and honor books.
The Coretta Scott King Awards honor outstanding writing and illustration by African American book creators. There is both an Author award and an Illustrator award. (For more information about this award, check out the press release announcing this year's winners and honor books at http://www.ala.org/news/v3n11/v3n11d.html)
Coming off of our Newbery discussion, why don't we start by discussing this year's Coretta Scott King Author Award winner and honor books. They are:
Winner: Forged by Fire by Sharon Draper (Atheneum)
Honor Books:
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, A Freed Girl by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic)
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement by James Haskins (Hyperion)
Megan Schliesman Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison schliesman at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 18 Feb 1998 12:32:30 PM CST
