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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 15:47:53 -0500
Thanks to everyone who has contributed a comment or perspective on Humor during the past two weeks. Your suggestions of authors, series, book titles, etc., have created a lively, productive discussion, and we're still going...
I'm looking at a flyer for a conference on the theme "Literacy through Laughter: Humor in Children's Literature" to be held July 20$, 1998, at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. The featured speakers include Helen and Jerry Weiss, Helen Lester, Patricia Reilly Giff, Johanna Hurwitz, Jim Aylesworth, and Bernard Waber. Registration deadline: June 15. Limit: 150 participants. For details, phone Arlene Sweet (540/665U82).
Reading that flyer reminds me of Bernard Waber's picture book Bearsie Bear and the Surprise Sleepover Party (Houghton Mifflin, 1997). I chuckle just thinking of Waber's perfectly crafted cumulative text and wonderfully expressive illustrations, not to mention the surprising turn the plot takes for Bearsie Bear. Waber's skilled uses of repetition and an exacting, fresh word selection earmark this picture story. For these reasons and others it was named a Highly Commended Book by the CCBC's 1998 Charlotte Zolotow Award jury.
I read Bearsie Bear and the Surprise Sleepover Party to an antsy group of first graders last winter, thinking after I began that maybe it would be too long for some or most of them. Wrong! They were enthalled. With only the smallest suggestion from me that they join me in "reading" repeated phrases, even the most jittery children correctly predicted when to help me read the story. They groaned with delight at the right places and giggled with satisfaction at the outcomes. Bearsie Bear... is also a good read-alone candidate for newly independent readers.
Well, it's June 15th, and it's time now to begin unleashing your thoughts about Humor in Books for Young Adults? Let's not get hung up on the definition of a young adult or on a definition of young adult literature. And - we can remember we've already heard about a few books for young teenagers along the way earlier this month. But for those of you who've been holding back your comments, it's time! If you still have comments to make and ideas to share about Humor in books for children, feel free to continue adding them, too. .... 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 Fri 15 May 1998 03:47:53 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 15:47:53 -0500
Thanks to everyone who has contributed a comment or perspective on Humor during the past two weeks. Your suggestions of authors, series, book titles, etc., have created a lively, productive discussion, and we're still going...
I'm looking at a flyer for a conference on the theme "Literacy through Laughter: Humor in Children's Literature" to be held July 20$, 1998, at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia. The featured speakers include Helen and Jerry Weiss, Helen Lester, Patricia Reilly Giff, Johanna Hurwitz, Jim Aylesworth, and Bernard Waber. Registration deadline: June 15. Limit: 150 participants. For details, phone Arlene Sweet (540/665U82).
Reading that flyer reminds me of Bernard Waber's picture book Bearsie Bear and the Surprise Sleepover Party (Houghton Mifflin, 1997). I chuckle just thinking of Waber's perfectly crafted cumulative text and wonderfully expressive illustrations, not to mention the surprising turn the plot takes for Bearsie Bear. Waber's skilled uses of repetition and an exacting, fresh word selection earmark this picture story. For these reasons and others it was named a Highly Commended Book by the CCBC's 1998 Charlotte Zolotow Award jury.
I read Bearsie Bear and the Surprise Sleepover Party to an antsy group of first graders last winter, thinking after I began that maybe it would be too long for some or most of them. Wrong! They were enthalled. With only the smallest suggestion from me that they join me in "reading" repeated phrases, even the most jittery children correctly predicted when to help me read the story. They groaned with delight at the right places and giggled with satisfaction at the outcomes. Bearsie Bear... is also a good read-alone candidate for newly independent readers.
Well, it's June 15th, and it's time now to begin unleashing your thoughts about Humor in Books for Young Adults? Let's not get hung up on the definition of a young adult or on a definition of young adult literature. And - we can remember we've already heard about a few books for young teenagers along the way earlier this month. But for those of you who've been holding back your comments, it's time! If you still have comments to make and ideas to share about Humor in books for children, feel free to continue adding them, too. .... 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 Fri 15 May 1998 03:47:53 PM CDT
