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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 11:14:18 -0500
Let's begin by reviewing some of what Eliza T. Dresang and Kate McClelland wrote about nonlinear narratives in an article "Radical Changes" published in Book Links (July, 1997): 40F. In discussing how books, in the electronic age, reflect changes in children's thinking, they wrote, " Books that have special appeal for computer-literate young people share many of the characteristics that are intriguing to those using a computer: graphics in exciting new forms and formats, words and pictures that reach new levels of synergy, nonlinear and nonsequential organization...Books that have one or more of these characteristics hold out the promise of unlimited exploration and discovery. They virtually hot-wire the imagination and creativity of young readers." Dresang & McClelland continue with the example of a book to which Joanna Long made a reference near the end of the September discussion: Black and White by David Macaulay (Houghton Mifflin, 1990).
With that very general introduction in mind - on which Eliza and/or Kate is warmly invited to expand - let's move to the first of the specific books on our October discussion list: "Making Up Megaboy" by Virginia Walter and Katrina Roeckelein (A Richard Jackson Book / DK Ink, 1998).
This unique 64-page book involves written and visual commentary on 13-year-old Robbie Jones' shooting of someone he didn't know, a older man, a shopkeeper. Robbie Jones never speaks throughout this book. One can open its pages at any place to read the comments of others and see visual images connected to the story along with drawings Robbie previously created out of his imagination.
Virginia Walter, Katrina Roeckelein and Richard Jackson were interviewed by Book Links editor Judith O'Malley for a marvelous feature titled
"Talking with... The Creators of "Making Up Megaboy:" A Writer/Illustrator/Editor Conversation" published in Book Links (July, 1998):25(. Each of them is also welcome to expand on that remarkable conversation at any point during this month.
If you've had a chance to experience the book "Making Up Megaboy," what are your thoughts about it at this point? ... Ginny
**************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Thu 01 Oct 1998 11:14:18 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 11:14:18 -0500
Let's begin by reviewing some of what Eliza T. Dresang and Kate McClelland wrote about nonlinear narratives in an article "Radical Changes" published in Book Links (July, 1997): 40F. In discussing how books, in the electronic age, reflect changes in children's thinking, they wrote, " Books that have special appeal for computer-literate young people share many of the characteristics that are intriguing to those using a computer: graphics in exciting new forms and formats, words and pictures that reach new levels of synergy, nonlinear and nonsequential organization...Books that have one or more of these characteristics hold out the promise of unlimited exploration and discovery. They virtually hot-wire the imagination and creativity of young readers." Dresang & McClelland continue with the example of a book to which Joanna Long made a reference near the end of the September discussion: Black and White by David Macaulay (Houghton Mifflin, 1990).
With that very general introduction in mind - on which Eliza and/or Kate is warmly invited to expand - let's move to the first of the specific books on our October discussion list: "Making Up Megaboy" by Virginia Walter and Katrina Roeckelein (A Richard Jackson Book / DK Ink, 1998).
This unique 64-page book involves written and visual commentary on 13-year-old Robbie Jones' shooting of someone he didn't know, a older man, a shopkeeper. Robbie Jones never speaks throughout this book. One can open its pages at any place to read the comments of others and see visual images connected to the story along with drawings Robbie previously created out of his imagination.
Virginia Walter, Katrina Roeckelein and Richard Jackson were interviewed by Book Links editor Judith O'Malley for a marvelous feature titled
"Talking with... The Creators of "Making Up Megaboy:" A Writer/Illustrator/Editor Conversation" published in Book Links (July, 1998):25(. Each of them is also welcome to expand on that remarkable conversation at any point during this month.
If you've had a chance to experience the book "Making Up Megaboy," what are your thoughts about it at this point? ... Ginny
**************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Thu 01 Oct 1998 11:14:18 AM CDT
