From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:38:45 -0600

Thank you for the comments you have made about Snow and Pete's a Pizza. Please continue to share any thoughts you have on these books or John Willy and Freddy McGee. Likewise, it's great to hear people's experiences sharing these marvelous books with children.

We also invite your comments on any of the books on the Charlotte Zolotow Highly Commended List: Mama Cat Has Three Kittens, Circle Dogs, Dance, Little Clam, and Elizabeti's Doll.

Christine Hill has already commented on the moving effect that Bill T. Jones and Susan Kuklin's Dance had on the children with whom she shared the book, noting that
"it is one of an elite group of books that invariably evokes, 'read it again' from the group."

One member of the Zolotow committee reported that the children with whom she shared Dance were mesmerized by the text and photographs. They were absolutely silent as the book was read--a profound and thoughtful silence as the poetry of the text affected them. There is so much to respond to on many different levels in Dance, intellectually, viscerally, and even physically. In another group of children, younger than the first, many of them could not resist moving their bodies as the book was read, echoing the movments of Bill T. Jones in Susan Kuklin's wonderful photographs.

Megan




Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison 608&2?03 schliesman at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 24 Mar 1999 02:38:45 PM CST