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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:47:48 -0600
I wrote to clarify, not to argue about whether or not there should be awards with eligibility based upon extra-literary criteria, such as heritage. My apologies for perhaps moving our discussion off on a tangent.
Many thanks, Francisco X. Alarcon, for taking the time to write such a fine message. Thank you, too, for finding ways to have some of your poems published in editions especially attractive to young people. The information concerning other publishing about which you've inquired can be found in "CCBC Choices 2000" to be published on March 11. I don't have time this morning to write carefully about this, but I'll do so over the weekend.
Let's now go back to looking at examples of excellence in Latino literature? If you know of Latino literature books published during the 1998? publishing years, we're interested in finding out about the other books you admire, as well as your comments about the 2000 Pura Belpre award and honor books.
In addition to the books cited so far this month, I'd like to add a comment about a fine book published for young adults in 1999. Anyone who knows teenage readers will want to locate "CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse" written by Juan Felipe Herrera. It was published in paperback for young adults by the University of New Mexico Press.
(Yes, I wrote the title correctly. There are no spaces between the words in the title.) You can see the stunning jacket and read a bit more about this powerful exploration of peer pressure by clicking to the CCBC website's Book of the Week feature this week http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/review.htm (after this week you'll find this book in the Book of the Week archives for March, 2000). If you're asking yourself what's a "novel in verse," anyway, think about "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse, similar only in form to
"CrashBoomLove."
Other comments about the Belpre books? other Latino literature for young people, literary literature, as Marc Aronson so articulately suggests? And I agree, it's what we're talking about - anyway that's what I'm looking for, too.)
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) A noncirculating children's and young adult literature library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Madison Public Service Hours during the university's spring recess: Monday Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Received on Fri 10 Mar 2000 08:47:48 AM CST
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:47:48 -0600
I wrote to clarify, not to argue about whether or not there should be awards with eligibility based upon extra-literary criteria, such as heritage. My apologies for perhaps moving our discussion off on a tangent.
Many thanks, Francisco X. Alarcon, for taking the time to write such a fine message. Thank you, too, for finding ways to have some of your poems published in editions especially attractive to young people. The information concerning other publishing about which you've inquired can be found in "CCBC Choices 2000" to be published on March 11. I don't have time this morning to write carefully about this, but I'll do so over the weekend.
Let's now go back to looking at examples of excellence in Latino literature? If you know of Latino literature books published during the 1998? publishing years, we're interested in finding out about the other books you admire, as well as your comments about the 2000 Pura Belpre award and honor books.
In addition to the books cited so far this month, I'd like to add a comment about a fine book published for young adults in 1999. Anyone who knows teenage readers will want to locate "CrashBoomLove: A Novel in Verse" written by Juan Felipe Herrera. It was published in paperback for young adults by the University of New Mexico Press.
(Yes, I wrote the title correctly. There are no spaces between the words in the title.) You can see the stunning jacket and read a bit more about this powerful exploration of peer pressure by clicking to the CCBC website's Book of the Week feature this week http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/review.htm (after this week you'll find this book in the Book of the Week archives for March, 2000). If you're asking yourself what's a "novel in verse," anyway, think about "Out of the Dust" by Karen Hesse, similar only in form to
"CrashBoomLove."
Other comments about the Belpre books? other Latino literature for young people, literary literature, as Marc Aronson so articulately suggests? And I agree, it's what we're talking about - anyway that's what I'm looking for, too.)
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) A noncirculating children's and young adult literature library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Madison Public Service Hours during the university's spring recess: Monday Saturday 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Received on Fri 10 Mar 2000 08:47:48 AM CST
