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From: Edie_Ching at cathedral.org <Edie_Ching>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:23:47 -0400
I am a big Harry Potter fan and enjoy the books very much,as do my students and parents (the attendance at our parent/son book club is always highest when we discuss a Harry Potter book). What I may be late in discovering is that Harry really isn't growing in this book; he is very much the same boy he was in book one. The hype about Harry's teen-age years really misses the mark I think. Harry really doesn't suffer teen-age angst and anxiety in this book--he doesn't get the date he wants-well, he makes do with someone else. And the ending of the book I felt short-changed how young people really do deal with trauma--Harry takes a potion and goes to bed. That doesn't mean that the books aren't great adventures--I asked our student body before school ended to predict what would happen in Book 4, based on careful reading of the other three books. I got about 150 responses and none of us came close to what happened in Book 4. Maybe Harry's arrested development is a sign of the times but it is beginning to wear thin with me. Edie Ching, St. Albans School.
Message----From: Kathleen Horning [mailto:horning at education.wisc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 5:55 PM To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Subject: Upcoming Topics on CCBC-Net
This month: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" - The fourth book in the Harry Potter sequence by J.K. Rowling has become as the fastest selling book in publishing history. At 752 pages, it is also one of the longest children's books on record, yet children have reportedly turned off television and logged off their computers to spend summer days reading J. K. Rowling's latest offering. Our discussion will focus on the book itself, as well as the continuing saga of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Please visit Harry Potter: Selected Links on the World Wide Web and Reviews
(http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/hplinks.htm) and Distinctions for the U.S. Editions of the Harry Potter Books
(http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/hpreview.htm) for further information.
October 2000:
"Alice in Wonderland" - How do children respond to Lewis Carroll's classic children's book today? Monica Edinger, fourth grade teacher at the Dalton School in New York, New York, will lead our discussion and will share her experiences with Alice in the classroom. Please visit an excellent web page created by Monica and school librarian Roxanne Hsu Feldman, The Many Faces of Alice: A Classroom Project
(http://www.dalton.org/ms/alice/ in order to prepare for our discussion.
November 2000: History through Nonfiction - More than a decade ago, Russell Freedman set a new standard for outstanding history for young readers with his photobiographies such as "Lincoln: A Photobiography,"
"The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane," and "Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery." Today the trend continues with outstanding history being written by authors such as Patricia and Frederick McKissack, Jim Murphy, Rhoda Blumberg, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, and Marian Calabro. We'll discuss some of the outstanding history being written for young readers today.
December 2000: Favorite Books of 2000 - What was the best book you read in 2000? The last month of the year has traditionally been a time when we invite members of the CCBC-Net community to share their favorite books of the year.
Kathleen T. Horning (horning at education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706 608&3930 FAX: 608&2I33
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I am a big Harry Potter fan and enjoy the books very much,as do my students and parents (the attendance at our parent/son book club is always highest when we discuss a Harry Potter book). What I may be late in discovering is that Harry really isn't growing in this book; he is very much the same boy he was in book one. The hype about Harry's teen-age years really misses the mark I think. Harry really doesn't suffer teen-age angst and anxiety in this book--he doesn't get the date he wants-well, he makes do with someone else. And the ending of the book I felt short-changed how young people really do deal with trauma--Harry takes a potion and goes to bed. That doesn't mean that the books aren't great adventures--I asked our student body before school ended to predict what would happen in Book 4, based on careful reading of the other three books. I got about 150 responses and none of us came close to what happened in Book 4. Maybe Harry's arrested development is a sign of the times but it is beginning to wear thin with me. Edie Ching, St. Albans School.
Message----From: Kathleen Horning [mailto:horning at education.wisc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 5:55 PM To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Subject: Upcoming Topics on CCBC-Net
This month: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" - The fourth book in the Harry Potter sequence by J.K. Rowling has become as the fastest selling book in publishing history. At 752 pages, it is also one of the longest children's books on record, yet children have reportedly turned off television and logged off their computers to spend summer days reading J. K. Rowling's latest offering. Our discussion will focus on the book itself, as well as the continuing saga of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Please visit Harry Potter: Selected Links on the World Wide Web and Reviews
(http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/hplinks.htm) and Distinctions for the U.S. Editions of the Harry Potter Books
(http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/hpreview.htm) for further information.
October 2000:
"Alice in Wonderland" - How do children respond to Lewis Carroll's classic children's book today? Monica Edinger, fourth grade teacher at the Dalton School in New York, New York, will lead our discussion and will share her experiences with Alice in the classroom. Please visit an excellent web page created by Monica and school librarian Roxanne Hsu Feldman, The Many Faces of Alice: A Classroom Project
(http://www.dalton.org/ms/alice/ in order to prepare for our discussion.
November 2000: History through Nonfiction - More than a decade ago, Russell Freedman set a new standard for outstanding history for young readers with his photobiographies such as "Lincoln: A Photobiography,"
"The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane," and "Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery." Today the trend continues with outstanding history being written by authors such as Patricia and Frederick McKissack, Jim Murphy, Rhoda Blumberg, Susan Campbell Bartoletti, and Marian Calabro. We'll discuss some of the outstanding history being written for young readers today.
December 2000: Favorite Books of 2000 - What was the best book you read in 2000? The last month of the year has traditionally been a time when we invite members of the CCBC-Net community to share their favorite books of the year.
Kathleen T. Horning (horning at education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706 608&3930 FAX: 608&2I33
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