From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:27:04 -0500

Along with many others who have tried to learn midst the emotionally charged exchanges offered to the CCBC-Net community this month, I await the opportunity to hear from people who have not yet spoken up. We welcome your contributions to the final days of this discussion.

As I read Marion's serious question this morning, all I could do was hope that she will be taken seriously. She IS serious. She is a thoughtful reader and writer who has told us that she wants to write a serious novel based on her family's history.

Like many others who have wanted to learn more about our topic this month, Marion will learn from constructive advice offered to her in a civil way. She and others probably cannot learn while being shouted at or after becoming the recipient of sacrasm. She and others probably cannot learn by having her carefully worded query be dissected phrase by phrase. We adults are no different than children in this respect. We find it difficult to learn when someone shouts at us or takes us to task for what we don't know and about which we make sincere attempts to find out.

I'm definitely not suggesting that people begin to contribute their personal stories about being shouted at as children. No, not that, please.

Let's hear a few new voices in response to Marion's serious query.

If you've already taken time to share your thoughts with the CCBC-Net community and you have something you want Marion to know, please consider writing to her individually. Right now, let's hear from people who have not yet "stepped up to the mike."

Peace, Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Fri 29 Oct 1999 12:27:04 PM CDT