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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:24:45 -0600
1) Click to "The CCBC This Season" on the CCBC website
(www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) for off?mpus opportunities to examine the books for children and young adults in "CCBC Choices 1998" and for details about other presentations and workshops given this spring by Megan Schliesman, Kathleen Horning and Ginny Moore Kruse.
2) Click to "What's New?" and then to "Book of the Week" on the CCBC website (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) to read the CCBC weekly book review or the reviews from recent weeks and months. The book reviewed this week is "Journeys with Elijah: Eight Tales of the Prophet" as retold by Barbara Diamond Goldin and illustrated with paintings by Jerry Pinkney (Harcourt, 1999). Books reviewed earlier this month include
"Last Licks: A Spaldeen Story written by Cari Best with pictures by Diane Palmisciano (A Melanie Kroupa Book / DK Ink, 1999) and True Heart by written by Marissa Moss and illustrated by C.F. Payne (Silver Whistle
/ Harcourt Brace, 1999).
3) Reserve your seat at the School of Education Sesquicentennial Luncheon to be held on Thursday, April 8, at which CCBC Director Ginny Moore Kruse will be the featured speaker. The buffet luncheon will be held at the University Club, 803 State St, UW-Madison campus. Phone 608&2P23 for a reservation.
4) Author/storyteller Joseph Bruchac will present a free, public lecture, "Wild Strawberries," on Friday, April 9, 7:30p.m., in Great Hall, Wisconsin Memorial Union. This lecture is sponsored by the School of Library & Information Studies and others on the UW-Madison campus and is part of the SLIS conference "Windows to the Past: History in Literature for Children and Young Adults" on April 9 and 10. For questions about Mr. Bruchac's lecture or about conference registration information, contact Linda Mundt (LEMundt at facstaff.wisc.edu)
5) A CCBC workshop, "Individuals, Institutions and Society: Children's Books about Culture in the K-6 Social Studies Curriculum," will be held on Friday, April 16, 8:30-3:00, in Tripp Commons, Wisconsin Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus. The workshop leader is UW-River Falls Professor DeAn Krey, author of "Children's Literature in Social Studies: Teaching to the Standards (National Council for the Social Studies, 1999) and chair of the Book Selection Panel for the "1999 Notable Social Studies Trade Books of the Year" (CBC/NCSS). Dr. Krey will emphasize teaching to the national standards and to the Wisconsin standards by incorporating children's literature into the curriculum. An extensive book display and time to examine and discuss books related to the topic will be one feature of this workshop. Click to "What's New" and then to
"Meet the Experts" on the CCBC website (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) for an interview conducted by Tana Elias with DeAn Krey. For workshop registration information, contact Linda Shriberg, Office of Education Outreach, School of Education, UW-Madison (phone: 608&2D77);
(shriberg at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu)
6) The next CCBC Book Discussion will be held on Friday, April 30, 3:30
- 5:30p.m. in the CCBC. These discussions are open to anyone interested. Books can be read at the CCBC. For a copy of the discussion list for that day, visit the CCBC website (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/), click on "What's New?," click on "CCBC Book Discussion" and then click to the book discussion list. Feel free to participate in part or all of the discussion of new books for children and young adults.
7) Save these dates, October 7-9, 1999, to come to Madison, Wisconsin! At that time, the CCBC will co-host the IBBY Regional Children's & Young Adult Literature Conference sponsored by the U.S. Board on Books for Young People (USBBY).
Prior to the conference opening, the second annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture will be given on the evening of October 7 by Katherine Paterson. This lecture is free and open to the public and will be preceded by the presentation of the 1999 Charlotte Zolotow Award to Uri Shulevitz for his outstanding writing in the picture book, "Snow" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998).
Speakers who will develop the conference theme, "Points of View," include Patricia Aldana, Nina Bawden, Virginia Buckley & Katherine Paterson, Anthony Browne, Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen, Floyd Cooper, Lois Ehlert, Sarah Ellis, Jeffrey Garrett, Kevin Henkes, Nina Ignatowicz, Keiko Kasza, Hector Viveros Lee, Julius Lester, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Junko Yokota.
Watch the CCBC website (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) for the growing list of confirmed speakers & leaders for this conference. Registration brochures will be available later this spring. All interested persons are welcome to register and attend. Patron members of the United States Board on Books for Young People are the American Library Association, the Children's Book Council, The International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English.
************************************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Wed 31 Mar 1999 10:24:45 PM CST
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 22:24:45 -0600
1) Click to "The CCBC This Season" on the CCBC website
(www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) for off?mpus opportunities to examine the books for children and young adults in "CCBC Choices 1998" and for details about other presentations and workshops given this spring by Megan Schliesman, Kathleen Horning and Ginny Moore Kruse.
2) Click to "What's New?" and then to "Book of the Week" on the CCBC website (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) to read the CCBC weekly book review or the reviews from recent weeks and months. The book reviewed this week is "Journeys with Elijah: Eight Tales of the Prophet" as retold by Barbara Diamond Goldin and illustrated with paintings by Jerry Pinkney (Harcourt, 1999). Books reviewed earlier this month include
"Last Licks: A Spaldeen Story written by Cari Best with pictures by Diane Palmisciano (A Melanie Kroupa Book / DK Ink, 1999) and True Heart by written by Marissa Moss and illustrated by C.F. Payne (Silver Whistle
/ Harcourt Brace, 1999).
3) Reserve your seat at the School of Education Sesquicentennial Luncheon to be held on Thursday, April 8, at which CCBC Director Ginny Moore Kruse will be the featured speaker. The buffet luncheon will be held at the University Club, 803 State St, UW-Madison campus. Phone 608&2P23 for a reservation.
4) Author/storyteller Joseph Bruchac will present a free, public lecture, "Wild Strawberries," on Friday, April 9, 7:30p.m., in Great Hall, Wisconsin Memorial Union. This lecture is sponsored by the School of Library & Information Studies and others on the UW-Madison campus and is part of the SLIS conference "Windows to the Past: History in Literature for Children and Young Adults" on April 9 and 10. For questions about Mr. Bruchac's lecture or about conference registration information, contact Linda Mundt (LEMundt at facstaff.wisc.edu)
5) A CCBC workshop, "Individuals, Institutions and Society: Children's Books about Culture in the K-6 Social Studies Curriculum," will be held on Friday, April 16, 8:30-3:00, in Tripp Commons, Wisconsin Memorial Union on the UW-Madison campus. The workshop leader is UW-River Falls Professor DeAn Krey, author of "Children's Literature in Social Studies: Teaching to the Standards (National Council for the Social Studies, 1999) and chair of the Book Selection Panel for the "1999 Notable Social Studies Trade Books of the Year" (CBC/NCSS). Dr. Krey will emphasize teaching to the national standards and to the Wisconsin standards by incorporating children's literature into the curriculum. An extensive book display and time to examine and discuss books related to the topic will be one feature of this workshop. Click to "What's New" and then to
"Meet the Experts" on the CCBC website (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) for an interview conducted by Tana Elias with DeAn Krey. For workshop registration information, contact Linda Shriberg, Office of Education Outreach, School of Education, UW-Madison (phone: 608&2D77);
(shriberg at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu)
6) The next CCBC Book Discussion will be held on Friday, April 30, 3:30
- 5:30p.m. in the CCBC. These discussions are open to anyone interested. Books can be read at the CCBC. For a copy of the discussion list for that day, visit the CCBC website (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/), click on "What's New?," click on "CCBC Book Discussion" and then click to the book discussion list. Feel free to participate in part or all of the discussion of new books for children and young adults.
7) Save these dates, October 7-9, 1999, to come to Madison, Wisconsin! At that time, the CCBC will co-host the IBBY Regional Children's & Young Adult Literature Conference sponsored by the U.S. Board on Books for Young People (USBBY).
Prior to the conference opening, the second annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture will be given on the evening of October 7 by Katherine Paterson. This lecture is free and open to the public and will be preceded by the presentation of the 1999 Charlotte Zolotow Award to Uri Shulevitz for his outstanding writing in the picture book, "Snow" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998).
Speakers who will develop the conference theme, "Points of View," include Patricia Aldana, Nina Bawden, Virginia Buckley & Katherine Paterson, Anthony Browne, Joanna Cole & Bruce Degen, Floyd Cooper, Lois Ehlert, Sarah Ellis, Jeffrey Garrett, Kevin Henkes, Nina Ignatowicz, Keiko Kasza, Hector Viveros Lee, Julius Lester, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Junko Yokota.
Watch the CCBC website (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) for the growing list of confirmed speakers & leaders for this conference. Registration brochures will be available later this spring. All interested persons are welcome to register and attend. Patron members of the United States Board on Books for Young People are the American Library Association, the Children's Book Council, The International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English.
************************************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Wed 31 Mar 1999 10:24:45 PM CST
