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Winding down: Writing in Picture Books
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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 17:51:48 -0500
Thanks, Jane and Becky, for your comments. It's appropriate to remember Tana Hoban's outstanding board books for babies. Just last weekend, a parent was telling me how much her baby enjoys the very books about which Jane wrote.
We're winding down, and we never even got around to thinking together about what Ursula Nordstrom, Perry Nodelman and Kathleen T. Horning have to say about this. You've probably already figured out that we've had a bit of a chaotic month at the CCBC. We apologize. You'll have to do this on your own. And you can...
If you haven't already done so, locate the book "Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstom" edited by Leonard Marcus. This fine book is now out in paperback, and it makes excellent summer reading. You might want to visit the CCBC-Net archives http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/ccbc-net/aug1998.text (August 1998) to see what Leonard Marcus had to say about creating this incomparable book. You'll find amazing insights about picture book writing and illustrating, and editing, and publishing, and... and... and... "Dear Genius" is a "must" for everyone interested in children's and young adult literature.
We encourage you to find and read "Words about Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books" by Perry Nodelman (Univ. of Georgia Press, pbk 1990). The entire book deserves your attention, but for our purposes this month we might have look especially at the chapters about "The Relationships of Pictures and Words" and "The Rhythms of Picture-Book Narrative." Once again, we enthusiastically recommend "The Pleasures of Children's Literature" (Longman, pbk 1996) in its entirety, because we wouldn't want you to miss it, but the chapter on the Picture Book is particularly fine background for our discussion this month.
I also encourage you to find and read "From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books" by Kathleen T. Horning
(HarperCollins, hardcover & pbk 1997) for its helpful chapter on Picture Books.
Can we say each of the above books is a "must" ?? Yes, and there are many others in the CCBC-Net community who have written and spoken about the elements of picture books. We hope that the discussion throughout the month of May has stimulated your attention to the writing in books for very young children. - Ginny
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 Wed 31 May 2000 05:51:48 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 17:51:48 -0500
Thanks, Jane and Becky, for your comments. It's appropriate to remember Tana Hoban's outstanding board books for babies. Just last weekend, a parent was telling me how much her baby enjoys the very books about which Jane wrote.
We're winding down, and we never even got around to thinking together about what Ursula Nordstrom, Perry Nodelman and Kathleen T. Horning have to say about this. You've probably already figured out that we've had a bit of a chaotic month at the CCBC. We apologize. You'll have to do this on your own. And you can...
If you haven't already done so, locate the book "Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstom" edited by Leonard Marcus. This fine book is now out in paperback, and it makes excellent summer reading. You might want to visit the CCBC-Net archives http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/ccbc-net/aug1998.text (August 1998) to see what Leonard Marcus had to say about creating this incomparable book. You'll find amazing insights about picture book writing and illustrating, and editing, and publishing, and... and... and... "Dear Genius" is a "must" for everyone interested in children's and young adult literature.
We encourage you to find and read "Words about Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children's Picture Books" by Perry Nodelman (Univ. of Georgia Press, pbk 1990). The entire book deserves your attention, but for our purposes this month we might have look especially at the chapters about "The Relationships of Pictures and Words" and "The Rhythms of Picture-Book Narrative." Once again, we enthusiastically recommend "The Pleasures of Children's Literature" (Longman, pbk 1996) in its entirety, because we wouldn't want you to miss it, but the chapter on the Picture Book is particularly fine background for our discussion this month.
I also encourage you to find and read "From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books" by Kathleen T. Horning
(HarperCollins, hardcover & pbk 1997) for its helpful chapter on Picture Books.
Can we say each of the above books is a "must" ?? Yes, and there are many others in the CCBC-Net community who have written and spoken about the elements of picture books. We hope that the discussion throughout the month of May has stimulated your attention to the writing in books for very young children. - Ginny
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 Wed 31 May 2000 05:51:48 PM CDT
