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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:04:40 -0500
Thanks to Jeffrey, Ruth, Annette, Betty and Carolyn for stepping forward with great observations about Brian Doyle's fiction. I hope everyone unfamiliar with Doyle's novels will make a special effort during the year at some point to acquaint yourselves with at least one of his terrific stories. The ones I've read are peopled with memorable characters, laced with gritty plots and interwoven with warm humor. He's most certainly a deserving recent Canadian finalist for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award (IBBY).
Over the years, readers of "The Horn Book" journal have become aware of Sarah Ellis as a prominent columnist on the subject of Canadian children's literature. Those who've attended continuing education opportunities sponsored by Simmons College and/or Children's Literature New England are familiar with Sarah Ellis as an articulate critic of children's literature on both sides of the North American border shared by Canada and the U.S.A.
Tana Elias's recent interview with Sarah Ellis for the Friends of the CCBC "Newsletter" is available to all on the CCBC webpage
(http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/friends/ellis.htm). Be sure to link to Tana and Sarah's fine dialogue this week while we all too briefly consider some of her novels of realism (eg. "Out of the Blue" and "Pick-Up Sticks") and her recent collection of short supernatural fiction "Back of Beyond." Tana's interview includes a listed sampling of articles by/about Sarah Ellis. Try to look at one or more of these at some point, if not now.
Tana's interview with Sarah raises several significant questions, each of which could involve us for weeks. Tana refers to the novel
"Next Door Neighbors" set in Canada during the late 1950's in which Sarah Ellis developed a story involving an Asian immigrant, a story relevant in many ways to many cities and towns on both sides of our shared geographic border.
If you've read that novel or any of Sarah's other published works, please share your insights or responses. And - please comment quite quickly, as we want to move along in - ahem - developing our quick snapshots of only a few of Canada's many multi-talented writers for children and young adults. Canadians, please continue to speak up, along with your neighbors to the south! ...Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
(www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Mon 13 Sep 1999 12:04:40 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 12:04:40 -0500
Thanks to Jeffrey, Ruth, Annette, Betty and Carolyn for stepping forward with great observations about Brian Doyle's fiction. I hope everyone unfamiliar with Doyle's novels will make a special effort during the year at some point to acquaint yourselves with at least one of his terrific stories. The ones I've read are peopled with memorable characters, laced with gritty plots and interwoven with warm humor. He's most certainly a deserving recent Canadian finalist for the international Hans Christian Andersen Award (IBBY).
Over the years, readers of "The Horn Book" journal have become aware of Sarah Ellis as a prominent columnist on the subject of Canadian children's literature. Those who've attended continuing education opportunities sponsored by Simmons College and/or Children's Literature New England are familiar with Sarah Ellis as an articulate critic of children's literature on both sides of the North American border shared by Canada and the U.S.A.
Tana Elias's recent interview with Sarah Ellis for the Friends of the CCBC "Newsletter" is available to all on the CCBC webpage
(http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/friends/ellis.htm). Be sure to link to Tana and Sarah's fine dialogue this week while we all too briefly consider some of her novels of realism (eg. "Out of the Blue" and "Pick-Up Sticks") and her recent collection of short supernatural fiction "Back of Beyond." Tana's interview includes a listed sampling of articles by/about Sarah Ellis. Try to look at one or more of these at some point, if not now.
Tana's interview with Sarah raises several significant questions, each of which could involve us for weeks. Tana refers to the novel
"Next Door Neighbors" set in Canada during the late 1950's in which Sarah Ellis developed a story involving an Asian immigrant, a story relevant in many ways to many cities and towns on both sides of our shared geographic border.
If you've read that novel or any of Sarah's other published works, please share your insights or responses. And - please comment quite quickly, as we want to move along in - ahem - developing our quick snapshots of only a few of Canada's many multi-talented writers for children and young adults. Canadians, please continue to speak up, along with your neighbors to the south! ...Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
(www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Mon 13 Sep 1999 12:04:40 PM CDT
