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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 12:04:00 -0600
Thanks, Sue McGown, for your comments about several of the books brought to visibility through the Pura Belpre Award process. You've noticed particularly special elements of several of the books so honored this year. Alma Flor Ada's "Under the Royal Palms" is a strikingly well designed volume, a memoir probably most enjoyed by certain middle and high school age readers and a companion volume to
"Where the Flame Trees Bloom." Readers of both books who also have a direct personal acquaintance with a general Caribbean - if not Cuban culture find that these memoirs about middle class family life resonate in profound ways with their experiences.
M.J. Wiseman's careful observations about the paper selected for
"Magic Windows / Ventanas Magicas" and the skill required to create papel picado demonstrate yet another reason why this unique book offers so much for a wide range of young and older individuals who turn its pages. It's a book into which one can dip and browse without the necessity of reading it from front to end. Yet it's a particular pleasure to begin realizing the intergenerational nature of both the book and the Mexican cut-paper art.
As a group brought together by the accident of publishing dates and the careful deliberations of one award jury, the 2000 Pura Belpre winners and honor books represent a wide range of types of books for young people: poetry (Herrara/Barbour, Alarcon/Gonzalez), photo-essary
(Ancona), autobiographical picture story (Carling), magical realism combined with picture story (Davalos/Slate), folk arts (Lomas Garza), and memoir (Flor Ada). There are so very few books eligible for the Pura Belpre Award every two years that it's essential to pay attention to the strengths and values of each book lifted to visibility because of this important award process signalling excellence in shaping cultural content for young readers. As we pay attention to this widely differing array of Latino literature, what else strikes you or young people you know about any of these books?
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu) 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 06 Mar 2000 12:04:00 PM CST
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 12:04:00 -0600
Thanks, Sue McGown, for your comments about several of the books brought to visibility through the Pura Belpre Award process. You've noticed particularly special elements of several of the books so honored this year. Alma Flor Ada's "Under the Royal Palms" is a strikingly well designed volume, a memoir probably most enjoyed by certain middle and high school age readers and a companion volume to
"Where the Flame Trees Bloom." Readers of both books who also have a direct personal acquaintance with a general Caribbean - if not Cuban culture find that these memoirs about middle class family life resonate in profound ways with their experiences.
M.J. Wiseman's careful observations about the paper selected for
"Magic Windows / Ventanas Magicas" and the skill required to create papel picado demonstrate yet another reason why this unique book offers so much for a wide range of young and older individuals who turn its pages. It's a book into which one can dip and browse without the necessity of reading it from front to end. Yet it's a particular pleasure to begin realizing the intergenerational nature of both the book and the Mexican cut-paper art.
As a group brought together by the accident of publishing dates and the careful deliberations of one award jury, the 2000 Pura Belpre winners and honor books represent a wide range of types of books for young people: poetry (Herrara/Barbour, Alarcon/Gonzalez), photo-essary
(Ancona), autobiographical picture story (Carling), magical realism combined with picture story (Davalos/Slate), folk arts (Lomas Garza), and memoir (Flor Ada). There are so very few books eligible for the Pura Belpre Award every two years that it's essential to pay attention to the strengths and values of each book lifted to visibility because of this important award process signalling excellence in shaping cultural content for young readers. As we pay attention to this widely differing array of Latino literature, what else strikes you or young people you know about any of these books?
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu) 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 06 Mar 2000 12:04:00 PM CST
