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From: Megan Schliesman <bogus_at_does.not.exist.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:10:16 -0600
I appreciate Susan Stan's commented last week that the illustrations in Gathering the Sun emphasizing "the importance of the land." I don't have the book in front of me right now, but it makes me want to go back and look at the indoor illustrations to see the "vistas" through the windows that she describes.
I was thinking about the other books cited for their illustrations by the Pura Belpre commiittee: the winner, Snapshots from the Wedding, and the three honor books: Gathering the Sun, The Golden Flower, and In My Family/En Mi Familia. A sense of family and/or a sense of nature as part of "place" is present in all of them.
A sense of connection to place are two of the most powerful ways in which we ground ourselves as human beings. When I look at Carmen Lomas Garzas' paintings in In My Family/En Mi Familia, I am strongly aware of both in her work. The same is true in the art for Gathering the Sun, which not only includes family ties and a connection to the present land, but to the land/country from which they come.
Can anyone comment on these themes as they may relate to Latino culture?
How do other books cited by the Pura Belpre committee for writing and illustration explore these or other significant themes?
Megan Schliesman
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/
Another piece of Silva's illustrations that I appreciated was the continual presence of the land - even pictures set indoors had a window through which you could see a vista. In fact, there was a vista in most of the illustrations, which gave context to the field, making it particular, not just any field.(I grew up near mountains and learned to judge where I was by them -- so that's how I'm reading these pictures.) For me the illustrations really highlighted the importance of the land. Susan Stan
Received on Thu 26 Mar 1998 01:10:16 PM CST
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 13:10:16 -0600
I appreciate Susan Stan's commented last week that the illustrations in Gathering the Sun emphasizing "the importance of the land." I don't have the book in front of me right now, but it makes me want to go back and look at the indoor illustrations to see the "vistas" through the windows that she describes.
I was thinking about the other books cited for their illustrations by the Pura Belpre commiittee: the winner, Snapshots from the Wedding, and the three honor books: Gathering the Sun, The Golden Flower, and In My Family/En Mi Familia. A sense of family and/or a sense of nature as part of "place" is present in all of them.
A sense of connection to place are two of the most powerful ways in which we ground ourselves as human beings. When I look at Carmen Lomas Garzas' paintings in In My Family/En Mi Familia, I am strongly aware of both in her work. The same is true in the art for Gathering the Sun, which not only includes family ties and a connection to the present land, but to the land/country from which they come.
Can anyone comment on these themes as they may relate to Latino culture?
How do other books cited by the Pura Belpre committee for writing and illustration explore these or other significant themes?
Megan Schliesman
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/
Another piece of Silva's illustrations that I appreciated was the continual presence of the land - even pictures set indoors had a window through which you could see a vista. In fact, there was a vista in most of the illustrations, which gave context to the field, making it particular, not just any field.(I grew up near mountains and learned to judge where I was by them -- so that's how I'm reading these pictures.) For me the illustrations really highlighted the importance of the land. Susan Stan
Received on Thu 26 Mar 1998 01:10:16 PM CST
