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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:29:44 -0600
First, appreciation. We value Judy, Christine, Violet and Megan's comments about "i see the rhythm," "Duke Ellington," "Heaven," "The Other Side," "The Skin I'm In," and "Jazmin's Notebook." (Notice, I finally got it right: the title "i see the rhythm" does not have caps!)
It was great to read remarks from Angela Johnson regarding her poetry in "The Other Side." We thank Deborah at Orchard Books for forwarding Ms. Johnson's comments to the CCBC-Net community.
Thanks, Dean, for telling us about your approach to using Breaking Ground Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground and also about other books in connection with the Holocaust literature you teach to 8th graders. We value your remarks about some of many other fine books with African American themes and topics. This is so helpful to everyone interested in finding and/or teaching excellent books for teens in middle and junior high school. Your openness to discovering new literature to teach and your creativity in linking literature with natural but not necessarily obvious connections offers inspiration and hope to many.
Marc, thanks for giving us a Henry Holt?hind-the-scenes glimpse of some of the exciting primary source materials and experiences providing the well-documented book Breaking Gournd Breaking Silence with "puzzle-solving excitement." Thanks, too, for reminding us that Breaking Ground Breaking Silence was jointly written by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan. How did Hansen & McGowan get together to accomplish this successful collaboration? We read in the book jacket information that Mr. McGowan is the head conservator of the team studying the burial ground and Ms. Hansen is a former NYC teacher of young children who now lives in Columbia, South Carolina. I'm curious, too, about a detail: where did the design for the handsome book jacket originate?
You can tell that we're not quite ready to make a transition to the next topic (1999 Batchelder Award Winner and Honor book) which we WILL do on March 15. Hey, it's only March 13th, and much is left unsaid about the Coretta Scott King Award winners and honor books. In addition to my questions to Marc (above), we're wondering if any of you have had the chance to develop an opinion about "The Bat Boy and His Violin," "I Have Heard of a Land," or "The Piano Man." ??? ...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 Open: Monday-Thursday 9:00-7:00 and Friday-Saturday 9:00-4:00 (CST)
Received on Sat 13 Mar 1999 02:29:44 PM CST
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 14:29:44 -0600
First, appreciation. We value Judy, Christine, Violet and Megan's comments about "i see the rhythm," "Duke Ellington," "Heaven," "The Other Side," "The Skin I'm In," and "Jazmin's Notebook." (Notice, I finally got it right: the title "i see the rhythm" does not have caps!)
It was great to read remarks from Angela Johnson regarding her poetry in "The Other Side." We thank Deborah at Orchard Books for forwarding Ms. Johnson's comments to the CCBC-Net community.
Thanks, Dean, for telling us about your approach to using Breaking Ground Breaking Silence: The Story of New York's African Burial Ground and also about other books in connection with the Holocaust literature you teach to 8th graders. We value your remarks about some of many other fine books with African American themes and topics. This is so helpful to everyone interested in finding and/or teaching excellent books for teens in middle and junior high school. Your openness to discovering new literature to teach and your creativity in linking literature with natural but not necessarily obvious connections offers inspiration and hope to many.
Marc, thanks for giving us a Henry Holt?hind-the-scenes glimpse of some of the exciting primary source materials and experiences providing the well-documented book Breaking Gournd Breaking Silence with "puzzle-solving excitement." Thanks, too, for reminding us that Breaking Ground Breaking Silence was jointly written by Joyce Hansen and Gary McGowan. How did Hansen & McGowan get together to accomplish this successful collaboration? We read in the book jacket information that Mr. McGowan is the head conservator of the team studying the burial ground and Ms. Hansen is a former NYC teacher of young children who now lives in Columbia, South Carolina. I'm curious, too, about a detail: where did the design for the handsome book jacket originate?
You can tell that we're not quite ready to make a transition to the next topic (1999 Batchelder Award Winner and Honor book) which we WILL do on March 15. Hey, it's only March 13th, and much is left unsaid about the Coretta Scott King Award winners and honor books. In addition to my questions to Marc (above), we're wondering if any of you have had the chance to develop an opinion about "The Bat Boy and His Violin," "I Have Heard of a Land," or "The Piano Man." ??? ...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 Open: Monday-Thursday 9:00-7:00 and Friday-Saturday 9:00-4:00 (CST)
Received on Sat 13 Mar 1999 02:29:44 PM CST
