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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 13:34:37 -0600
Thanks to Nick, Beth, Cathy, Nina, and Steven for your comments and advice about book gifts and favorite books!
For those of you who are "out there" reading your e-mail during the waning days & hours of the 20th Century, there's still time to share your enthusiasm for books you particularly enjoyed reading/seeing during 1999.
I intended to include "This Train" written and illustrated by Paul Collicutt (U.S. edition: Farrar, 1999) in my list of books for toddlers last week. "This Train" features several types of trains while developing the concept of "opposite" in a fresh way. This is Collicut's first picture book. He lives in England.
"I'm Jose and I'm OK: Three Stories from Bolivia" (U.S. edition: Kane/Miller, 1999) probably fits Eliza Dresang's definition of
"non-linear" in several ways. This open-ended picture book for older kids is based on the actual circumstances of a real Bolivian eleven-year-old. Jose is an orphan whose gritty stories were shaped by the German author Werner Holzwarth and the Yatiyawi Studios of La Paz, Bolivia. This three-segment book first published in Germany contains three short somewhat cinematic episodes: "Jose the Prankster," "Jose the Winner," and "Jose the Avenger." The word "Yatiyawi" is an Aymaran Indian word meaning "to make news, to inform." That's what "I'm Jose and I'm OK" does. Jose represents - to me - a much larger number of kids than we can ever imagine, kids living in marginal situations and who, if they're lucky, surviving. I guess I wouldn't wrap this up as a gift, but yet it's a gift of sorts to be reminded that there's more than one America, that there are many ways to relate a story. It's a book some older kids will really enjoy.
Has you run across Mollie Katzen's "Honest Pretzels: and 64 Other Amazing Recipes for Cooks Age 8 and Up" (Tricycle Press, 1999)? I intend to try a few of these recipes because the highly visual directions are so clear and the opportunity to cook is so inviting.
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 Open once again for public service on January 3, 2000
Received on Wed 29 Dec 1999 01:34:37 PM CST
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 13:34:37 -0600
Thanks to Nick, Beth, Cathy, Nina, and Steven for your comments and advice about book gifts and favorite books!
For those of you who are "out there" reading your e-mail during the waning days & hours of the 20th Century, there's still time to share your enthusiasm for books you particularly enjoyed reading/seeing during 1999.
I intended to include "This Train" written and illustrated by Paul Collicutt (U.S. edition: Farrar, 1999) in my list of books for toddlers last week. "This Train" features several types of trains while developing the concept of "opposite" in a fresh way. This is Collicut's first picture book. He lives in England.
"I'm Jose and I'm OK: Three Stories from Bolivia" (U.S. edition: Kane/Miller, 1999) probably fits Eliza Dresang's definition of
"non-linear" in several ways. This open-ended picture book for older kids is based on the actual circumstances of a real Bolivian eleven-year-old. Jose is an orphan whose gritty stories were shaped by the German author Werner Holzwarth and the Yatiyawi Studios of La Paz, Bolivia. This three-segment book first published in Germany contains three short somewhat cinematic episodes: "Jose the Prankster," "Jose the Winner," and "Jose the Avenger." The word "Yatiyawi" is an Aymaran Indian word meaning "to make news, to inform." That's what "I'm Jose and I'm OK" does. Jose represents - to me - a much larger number of kids than we can ever imagine, kids living in marginal situations and who, if they're lucky, surviving. I guess I wouldn't wrap this up as a gift, but yet it's a gift of sorts to be reminded that there's more than one America, that there are many ways to relate a story. It's a book some older kids will really enjoy.
Has you run across Mollie Katzen's "Honest Pretzels: and 64 Other Amazing Recipes for Cooks Age 8 and Up" (Tricycle Press, 1999)? I intend to try a few of these recipes because the highly visual directions are so clear and the opportunity to cook is so inviting.
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 Open once again for public service on January 3, 2000
Received on Wed 29 Dec 1999 01:34:37 PM CST
