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From: Dean Schneider <schneiderd>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 07:58:33 -0500
I agreed with all of the good comments about Sarah Ellis's fine writing. She is a writer with a light touch and whole lot of insight into characters and situations. To continue the discussion of Canadian writers, I will put my two cents in on the work of Carol Matas and Tim Wynne-Jones.
Carol Matas's Greater Than Angels is a very good book that celebrates the goodness of the people of Le Chambon who hid Jewish refugees during WWII. It is a short novel that tackles big, philosophical issues, such as where does evil come from.
And Tim Wynne-Jones's books are beautifully written stories full of eccentric, independent characters who often find quirky solutions to everyday problems. His new short story collection, Lord of the Fries, is excellent. I especially liked "The Bermuda Triangle." And his new picture book, On Tumbledown Hill, is fun to read with any age of listener. Tim had a fine time reading it to the second graders at my school before the book was officially out, and I read it aloud to my seventh graders and asked the students to write their own stories modeled upon Tim's, which starts with a twenty-six word story, working down - page by page - to a final, one-word ending. The illustrations wonderfully complement the wild story. Tim Wynne-Jones's The Book of Changes and Some of the Kinder Planets are wonderful collections that can easily inspire students to write short stories themselves, starting with moments in their own lives.
Dean Schneider Ensworth School 211 Ensworth Avenue Nashville, TN 37205 schneiderd at ensworth.com
Received on Thu 23 Sep 1999 07:58:33 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 07:58:33 -0500
I agreed with all of the good comments about Sarah Ellis's fine writing. She is a writer with a light touch and whole lot of insight into characters and situations. To continue the discussion of Canadian writers, I will put my two cents in on the work of Carol Matas and Tim Wynne-Jones.
Carol Matas's Greater Than Angels is a very good book that celebrates the goodness of the people of Le Chambon who hid Jewish refugees during WWII. It is a short novel that tackles big, philosophical issues, such as where does evil come from.
And Tim Wynne-Jones's books are beautifully written stories full of eccentric, independent characters who often find quirky solutions to everyday problems. His new short story collection, Lord of the Fries, is excellent. I especially liked "The Bermuda Triangle." And his new picture book, On Tumbledown Hill, is fun to read with any age of listener. Tim had a fine time reading it to the second graders at my school before the book was officially out, and I read it aloud to my seventh graders and asked the students to write their own stories modeled upon Tim's, which starts with a twenty-six word story, working down - page by page - to a final, one-word ending. The illustrations wonderfully complement the wild story. Tim Wynne-Jones's The Book of Changes and Some of the Kinder Planets are wonderful collections that can easily inspire students to write short stories themselves, starting with moments in their own lives.
Dean Schneider Ensworth School 211 Ensworth Avenue Nashville, TN 37205 schneiderd at ensworth.com
Received on Thu 23 Sep 1999 07:58:33 AM CDT
