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From: Melody Allen <melodyan>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:01:16 -0500
Having been born when my father was 59, I can't say that the father looks so out of place to me. My mother was 34, but science is certainly catching up with older mothers and whose to say Pete couldn't have been adopted or raised by an older couple. For some kids, they probably look like greatgrandparents, but the role model this book presents to adult readers is valid from teen parents on up. How can a parent and child resist playing "pizza" after reading this book?
Melody Allen Melodyan at lori.state.ri.us
---------From: Nicholas Glass Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 8:43 PM To: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: Pete's A Pizza
I love the text of Pete's A Pizza more than most children's books. I'm delighted to see that it received one of the Zolotow honor awards.
I recently read this book to a group of 4 and 5 year olds, and one child called the father, "grandpa". After an interesting discussion, I polled the children to learn if they thought the parents were parents or grand-parents. Everyone said "grandparents." To me, this provokes an interesting inconsistency between the text and the illustrations. I'm not saying that anything is wrong with this unusual perspective of a older parents, but I do wonder if having the text say father while the child potentially translates the illustration as grandfather affects children's response to the book.
I also wonder, for an award that consciously selects winners for the text, if a potential inconsistency between the text and the illustrations can be construed as a problem.
Nick Glass Pooh Corner bookstore Madison, WI
Received on Wed 24 Mar 1999 07:01:16 AM CST
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:01:16 -0500
Having been born when my father was 59, I can't say that the father looks so out of place to me. My mother was 34, but science is certainly catching up with older mothers and whose to say Pete couldn't have been adopted or raised by an older couple. For some kids, they probably look like greatgrandparents, but the role model this book presents to adult readers is valid from teen parents on up. How can a parent and child resist playing "pizza" after reading this book?
Melody Allen Melodyan at lori.state.ri.us
---------From: Nicholas Glass Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 8:43 PM To: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: Pete's A Pizza
I love the text of Pete's A Pizza more than most children's books. I'm delighted to see that it received one of the Zolotow honor awards.
I recently read this book to a group of 4 and 5 year olds, and one child called the father, "grandpa". After an interesting discussion, I polled the children to learn if they thought the parents were parents or grand-parents. Everyone said "grandparents." To me, this provokes an interesting inconsistency between the text and the illustrations. I'm not saying that anything is wrong with this unusual perspective of a older parents, but I do wonder if having the text say father while the child potentially translates the illustration as grandfather affects children's response to the book.
I also wonder, for an award that consciously selects winners for the text, if a potential inconsistency between the text and the illustrations can be construed as a problem.
Nick Glass Pooh Corner bookstore Madison, WI
Received on Wed 24 Mar 1999 07:01:16 AM CST
