From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:55:01 -0600

Now that Christine has referred to a book about Tiger Woods, I'm reminded to ask exactly what advice any of you want to give to editors of books about living people who are still doing/achieving whatever it is that made them the subjects of books for children in the first place. In other words, the sports biographies already out-of?te by the time they're available for sale.

Understand, please, that I'm NOT soliciting suggestions of people about whom books are wanted. Let's not get sidetracked into more "list making." Please...

Rather, I'm asking what are some of the elements of a good sports
"biography," anyway?

I'm asking Tom and others: where do you draw the line? is there a line? what is your measure of excellence?

Is it enough for these sports "biographies" to merely exist, or are there evaluation criteria important to you? We all want to know...

Before I sign off, I want to go on record as a former junior high school librarian in Wisconsin and Massachusetts. I always tried to purchase all types of popular reading for the libraries for which I had responsibility in order to create an environment where everyone could to the extent possible - know s/he was truly welcome in the school library and could have some visible clues that there were books in the library reflecting a wide range of their popular interests and identities. ...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 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706 CCBC Phone: 608&3720
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