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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:26:51 -0500
We certainly welcome your comments about this and other books by Carol Matas - and about other favorite Canadian authors and artists.
Thanks for referring to Pemmican Press, which has a fine backlist of excellent books. "Where Do You Get Your Moccasins?" has long been one of our most highly recommended picture books here at the CCBC. It's an intergenerational picture story, one about "how things are made" or
"where do things come from?" which - according to Katy Horning - is a typical information quest of many preschoolers using public libraries. This marvelous, modestly produced, paperback picture book is also very successful as a book for newly independent young readers. All that and contemporary Native Canadian cultural details, besides. "Where Do You Get Your Moccasins?" has long been listed in two CCBC bibliographies of recommended books: "Books for Beginning Readers" and "Thirty Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know."
Other comments about Carol Matas's hard-hitting novels or books "from the North" (Sarah Ellis's phrase) anyone in CCBC-Net particularly enjoys?
Ginny Moore Kruse Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) School of Education, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
Since I was out of country (in Montreal actually) I've missed some of this month's discussion. Will we discuss--or at least mention--the very interesting books of Carol Matas? Her PRIMROSE PATH is a searing and
intelligent depiction of what can happen in a community after the discloser of abuse by a respected leader--in this case a charismatic rabbi.
Leading into our October discussion topic, Canada has several small Native and Metis run publishing houses that have done much needed work in publishing culturally accurate children's books, many by Native authors. Pemmican Press, I believe, published the delightful, cumulative concept book WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR MOCCASINS?, by Bernalda Wheeler (Mohawk).
MY NAME IS SEEPEETZA, by Shirley Sterling (Niakapmux), a journal-style story of life in an Indian residential school, was published by Groundwood with help from the Canadian Council and the Ontario Arts Council. I am wondering about the role of government funding for small press/cultural publishing in Canada. My guess is that governmental support for the arts looks very different there than in the U. S. and that this influences children's
literature in concrete ways. Can list members from Canada fill us in?
Carolyn Lehman Humboldt State University Arcata, CA USA
Received on Wed 22 Sep 1999 11:26:51 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:26:51 -0500
We certainly welcome your comments about this and other books by Carol Matas - and about other favorite Canadian authors and artists.
Thanks for referring to Pemmican Press, which has a fine backlist of excellent books. "Where Do You Get Your Moccasins?" has long been one of our most highly recommended picture books here at the CCBC. It's an intergenerational picture story, one about "how things are made" or
"where do things come from?" which - according to Katy Horning - is a typical information quest of many preschoolers using public libraries. This marvelous, modestly produced, paperback picture book is also very successful as a book for newly independent young readers. All that and contemporary Native Canadian cultural details, besides. "Where Do You Get Your Moccasins?" has long been listed in two CCBC bibliographies of recommended books: "Books for Beginning Readers" and "Thirty Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know."
Other comments about Carol Matas's hard-hitting novels or books "from the North" (Sarah Ellis's phrase) anyone in CCBC-Net particularly enjoys?
Ginny Moore Kruse Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) School of Education, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison
Since I was out of country (in Montreal actually) I've missed some of this month's discussion. Will we discuss--or at least mention--the very interesting books of Carol Matas? Her PRIMROSE PATH is a searing and
intelligent depiction of what can happen in a community after the discloser of abuse by a respected leader--in this case a charismatic rabbi.
Leading into our October discussion topic, Canada has several small Native and Metis run publishing houses that have done much needed work in publishing culturally accurate children's books, many by Native authors. Pemmican Press, I believe, published the delightful, cumulative concept book WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR MOCCASINS?, by Bernalda Wheeler (Mohawk).
MY NAME IS SEEPEETZA, by Shirley Sterling (Niakapmux), a journal-style story of life in an Indian residential school, was published by Groundwood with help from the Canadian Council and the Ontario Arts Council. I am wondering about the role of government funding for small press/cultural publishing in Canada. My guess is that governmental support for the arts looks very different there than in the U. S. and that this influences children's
literature in concrete ways. Can list members from Canada fill us in?
Carolyn Lehman Humboldt State University Arcata, CA USA
Received on Wed 22 Sep 1999 11:26:51 AM CDT
