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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:00:38 -0500
The unusual picture book Who's Whose? by Jan Ormerod (U.S. edition: Lothrop, 1998) features three families living near enough to each other to carpool, exchange child care, share an occasional meal or outing, and know - or know about - each other's extended family members.
Young children who open the pages of Who's Whose? first see endpages covered with lists: grocery lists, task lists, the kind of lists found on the refrigerators in many households - especially those with children. Very young children won't be able to read these, but then again the lists might look familiar!
The title page spread is a photo gallery, showing three families with a total of five adults of two generations, eight children (three of African-British? or Caribbean-British? heritage, two white kids with red hair; three white kids with blond hair), as well as a black dog chasing a black cat to the right side of the right-hand page.
Next page spread: "If the cat eats breatkfast here," (see messy dining area); "lunch here," (see cat eating from the dog's dish and dog watching); "and supper here," (see cat outside eating from rabbit's dish); "who does it belong to?" (no people in those illustrations). On same two pages, see eight children trying to reach a cat who's climbed too high (on the page, not on a tree). Lots of things have already happened. The story is well underway, and it's about much more than the cat, although the cat does play (pun intended) an important role throughout.
Although I have not done this delightful book justice in the preceding clumsy account of its opening pages, I need to say that right now, at this very page, there is an adequate amount of visual information to equip most children to respond to the repeated question, "who's whose?" The question is repeated throughout the book, while we see contemporary kids and their adults getting through the day and the week - in various configuations. Nothing terrible happens. It's a cheerful story picturing the cominga and goings similar to the shared lives many of us live (or have lived) - if we have relationships within which we're interacting in daily ways about daily things with others, regardless of whether or not we have a familial or formal relationship with them. We don't have to have children in our immediate households to depend on each other, either. Probably all of us have to-do lists depending upon someone else's having us on their lists, too.
Who's Whose? is a non-linear book one must figure out. Children seem to figure it out faster than most adults. If you've seen this book, what do you make of it?
If you have questions or comments to forward to Jan Ormerod, I'll do so on your behalf. Although Jan is not on the internet, she has agreed to respond to whatever we might like to ask her or say about her book Who's Whose?
By the way, the "un-subscribing" messages coming to the entire CCBC-Net community are from individuals who are not following the simple commands for changing their CCBC-Net status. Are they merely careless, pushing a
"reply" button rather than typing a command? Do they really not "get it?" Who knows?
I don't get it myself, about individuals who seemingly rudely do not pay attention to the very simple, routine commands kindly sent to each of us each month by Chris Dowling (cdowling at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) and recently repeated by me. I realize that within a large group of people there will be a few who can't or don't or won't follow directions, and that's just life. We'll all have to live with it. But we hope everyone will try to function on that level with respect to the "room" some of us have to receive messages or the limited time some of us have to log into our messages daily or periodically. Some of us share an e-mail address and computer time.
Courage, everyone: if you need to change your status or leave CCBC-Net, please do the following: do not hit the "reply" button. Instead, get ready to write a NEW message. Write the following in the "to" part of your NEW message: listserv at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu That is absolutely all you put in the "address" or "to" part of your NEW message. In the
"subject" part of your NEW message write: un-subscribe That is all you need to write, the word "un-subscribe" but without quotes. Nothing in the
"message" area, nothing at all, not one word. Please try to remember this.
I'm writing this plea on behalf of more than 900 people who do not want to be bothered by individual messages regarding the technological status of one person. If you don't know how to do this by yourself, you may write directly to Chris Dowling (cdowling at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu).
We all make mistakes. Every single one of us. No one is going to scold you for not "getting it." Please, however, try to to conduct your personal message business on a one-to-one basis, not in front of the entire listserv.
Whew! How I dislike writing these things to everyone. ... Back to the discussion! Cheers, Ginny
************************************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse, Director Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706, USA
Received on Tue 20 Oct 1998 01:00:38 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:00:38 -0500
The unusual picture book Who's Whose? by Jan Ormerod (U.S. edition: Lothrop, 1998) features three families living near enough to each other to carpool, exchange child care, share an occasional meal or outing, and know - or know about - each other's extended family members.
Young children who open the pages of Who's Whose? first see endpages covered with lists: grocery lists, task lists, the kind of lists found on the refrigerators in many households - especially those with children. Very young children won't be able to read these, but then again the lists might look familiar!
The title page spread is a photo gallery, showing three families with a total of five adults of two generations, eight children (three of African-British? or Caribbean-British? heritage, two white kids with red hair; three white kids with blond hair), as well as a black dog chasing a black cat to the right side of the right-hand page.
Next page spread: "If the cat eats breatkfast here," (see messy dining area); "lunch here," (see cat eating from the dog's dish and dog watching); "and supper here," (see cat outside eating from rabbit's dish); "who does it belong to?" (no people in those illustrations). On same two pages, see eight children trying to reach a cat who's climbed too high (on the page, not on a tree). Lots of things have already happened. The story is well underway, and it's about much more than the cat, although the cat does play (pun intended) an important role throughout.
Although I have not done this delightful book justice in the preceding clumsy account of its opening pages, I need to say that right now, at this very page, there is an adequate amount of visual information to equip most children to respond to the repeated question, "who's whose?" The question is repeated throughout the book, while we see contemporary kids and their adults getting through the day and the week - in various configuations. Nothing terrible happens. It's a cheerful story picturing the cominga and goings similar to the shared lives many of us live (or have lived) - if we have relationships within which we're interacting in daily ways about daily things with others, regardless of whether or not we have a familial or formal relationship with them. We don't have to have children in our immediate households to depend on each other, either. Probably all of us have to-do lists depending upon someone else's having us on their lists, too.
Who's Whose? is a non-linear book one must figure out. Children seem to figure it out faster than most adults. If you've seen this book, what do you make of it?
If you have questions or comments to forward to Jan Ormerod, I'll do so on your behalf. Although Jan is not on the internet, she has agreed to respond to whatever we might like to ask her or say about her book Who's Whose?
By the way, the "un-subscribing" messages coming to the entire CCBC-Net community are from individuals who are not following the simple commands for changing their CCBC-Net status. Are they merely careless, pushing a
"reply" button rather than typing a command? Do they really not "get it?" Who knows?
I don't get it myself, about individuals who seemingly rudely do not pay attention to the very simple, routine commands kindly sent to each of us each month by Chris Dowling (cdowling at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) and recently repeated by me. I realize that within a large group of people there will be a few who can't or don't or won't follow directions, and that's just life. We'll all have to live with it. But we hope everyone will try to function on that level with respect to the "room" some of us have to receive messages or the limited time some of us have to log into our messages daily or periodically. Some of us share an e-mail address and computer time.
Courage, everyone: if you need to change your status or leave CCBC-Net, please do the following: do not hit the "reply" button. Instead, get ready to write a NEW message. Write the following in the "to" part of your NEW message: listserv at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu That is absolutely all you put in the "address" or "to" part of your NEW message. In the
"subject" part of your NEW message write: un-subscribe That is all you need to write, the word "un-subscribe" but without quotes. Nothing in the
"message" area, nothing at all, not one word. Please try to remember this.
I'm writing this plea on behalf of more than 900 people who do not want to be bothered by individual messages regarding the technological status of one person. If you don't know how to do this by yourself, you may write directly to Chris Dowling (cdowling at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu).
We all make mistakes. Every single one of us. No one is going to scold you for not "getting it." Please, however, try to to conduct your personal message business on a one-to-one basis, not in front of the entire listserv.
Whew! How I dislike writing these things to everyone. ... Back to the discussion! Cheers, Ginny
************************************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse, Director Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706, USA
Received on Tue 20 Oct 1998 01:00:38 PM CDT
