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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:47:44 -0500
Let's remain as focused as we've been since the weekend and stay on the announced discussion topic, which is the book "The Middle Passage."
I'm certain I'm not the only person in the CCBC-Net community to be moved by the comments shared since Sunday. Thank you - Shelby, Jean, Elizabeth, Lee, Bakari, Carolyn, Dean, Melody and Judy. To read that having a book such as "The Middle Passage" makes Dean is proud to be a teacher and lucky to have such a book to pass on to students and other teachers has given me a lot to think about. And so does being reminded that a "real" education iss one about which teenagers and adults can reflectively realize they were not deceived or that essential understandings were not omitted. I'm thinking about the role of a book such as "The Middle Passage," in which fine art makes viewers uncomfortable. Shelby quoted one of my favorite sections from Perry Nodelman's "The Pleasures of Children's Literature." It seems possible to say that one cannot see "The Middle Passage" without being changed. Real change is scary. It's also essential.
Several of the messages have referred to context. Dean pointed out that one book cannot be or provide all the information or the various insights. This is also essential to remember about all books. We appreciate receiving the list of some of the books placing suffering within the context of resistance.
Please continue sharing your thoughts about "The Middle Passage," regardless of whether or not you've used it professionally.
At some point during the next couple of days, we'll have the opportunity to hear from Phyllis Fogelman, the editor of "The Middle Passage." She plans to write about some of the unique publishing history of The Middle Passage" and will give us additional information about this particular crossover book. Thanks in advance to Susan Hawk
(Penguin/Putnam) for locating Phyllis on behalf of the CCBC-Net community during a week when Ms. Fogelman is out of the office.
...Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Wed 23 Jun 1999 03:47:44 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:47:44 -0500
Let's remain as focused as we've been since the weekend and stay on the announced discussion topic, which is the book "The Middle Passage."
I'm certain I'm not the only person in the CCBC-Net community to be moved by the comments shared since Sunday. Thank you - Shelby, Jean, Elizabeth, Lee, Bakari, Carolyn, Dean, Melody and Judy. To read that having a book such as "The Middle Passage" makes Dean is proud to be a teacher and lucky to have such a book to pass on to students and other teachers has given me a lot to think about. And so does being reminded that a "real" education iss one about which teenagers and adults can reflectively realize they were not deceived or that essential understandings were not omitted. I'm thinking about the role of a book such as "The Middle Passage," in which fine art makes viewers uncomfortable. Shelby quoted one of my favorite sections from Perry Nodelman's "The Pleasures of Children's Literature." It seems possible to say that one cannot see "The Middle Passage" without being changed. Real change is scary. It's also essential.
Several of the messages have referred to context. Dean pointed out that one book cannot be or provide all the information or the various insights. This is also essential to remember about all books. We appreciate receiving the list of some of the books placing suffering within the context of resistance.
Please continue sharing your thoughts about "The Middle Passage," regardless of whether or not you've used it professionally.
At some point during the next couple of days, we'll have the opportunity to hear from Phyllis Fogelman, the editor of "The Middle Passage." She plans to write about some of the unique publishing history of The Middle Passage" and will give us additional information about this particular crossover book. Thanks in advance to Susan Hawk
(Penguin/Putnam) for locating Phyllis on behalf of the CCBC-Net community during a week when Ms. Fogelman is out of the office.
...Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Wed 23 Jun 1999 03:47:44 PM CDT
