From: Christine Hill <chill>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 14:28:55 -0500

Although this month's announced subject is non-fiction, again and again posters have spontaneously begun discussing historical fiction. This fits in with one of the points made in the November/December Hornbook in Betty Carter's article on the future of juvenile non-fiction: that the gate-keepers of children's books, teachers and librarians, have an overriding preference for story over other forms of exposition. She convincingly make a case for the need to use a variety of forms for presenting information to children. This made me personally feel a lot better. I have been working on a children's science book on a topic related to the water cycle. Because the process is a cycle (circle), it doesn't have a specific beginning or end, as a story does. There are elements of story at various points, but the whole process doesn't work the way a story does. For a year, I struggled with this and gave up. It just can't be a story and it shouldn't. Christine M. Hill Willingboro Public Library One Salem Road Willingboro, NJ 08046 chill at willingboro.org My new book!Ten Terrific Authors for Teens, Enslow, 2000
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