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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:13:04 -0600
You're coming forward with great messages about your favorite books of the year! Thanks to Clare, Dean, Joyce, Lynn, Sue, Debbie, Lisa, Lyn, Maggie, Christine, Sue, Angela, Linda, and Beth. I'm sure others will have contributed their "favorites" by the time this message reaches each of you. Keep it up! I'm sure I'm not the only one taking notes for both professional and personal reasons!
It's also fine to underscore a favorite book someone else has already named. The more the merrier.
It's also OK to question something about a book someone else has suggested? If there's something keeping you from fully appreciating a book already mentioned, don't hesitate to ask respectfully, as Edie has aleady done, about something you find difficult to appreciate. I'm sure someone else will step up to respond respectfully in response. Edie has asked whether or not she's the only person who has noticed that the "Japanese dinosaur looked particularly menacing in an ethnic way, the samurai stance, the exaggeratedly slanted eyes" making her question about one of the illustrations in the book "How Do Dinosaurs Say Good-Night?" I'll share a question arising twice during two entirely separate discussions about the novel "Fever 1793." Is it likely that an African American domestic employee of a white Philadelphia family would realistically and voluntarily return to assist that family personally and/or in their business to the extent that this happens in this particular story? These are serious questions from individuals or groups wanting to fully appreciate each book, but finding it difficult to do so. No different from the kinds of questions confronting any award committee or task force sorting out books to name as some of the best of the year, or anyone browsing through books in a library or bookstore at any time.
Keep those favorites coming... Best, 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 06 Dec 2000 05:13:04 PM CST
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:13:04 -0600
You're coming forward with great messages about your favorite books of the year! Thanks to Clare, Dean, Joyce, Lynn, Sue, Debbie, Lisa, Lyn, Maggie, Christine, Sue, Angela, Linda, and Beth. I'm sure others will have contributed their "favorites" by the time this message reaches each of you. Keep it up! I'm sure I'm not the only one taking notes for both professional and personal reasons!
It's also fine to underscore a favorite book someone else has already named. The more the merrier.
It's also OK to question something about a book someone else has suggested? If there's something keeping you from fully appreciating a book already mentioned, don't hesitate to ask respectfully, as Edie has aleady done, about something you find difficult to appreciate. I'm sure someone else will step up to respond respectfully in response. Edie has asked whether or not she's the only person who has noticed that the "Japanese dinosaur looked particularly menacing in an ethnic way, the samurai stance, the exaggeratedly slanted eyes" making her question about one of the illustrations in the book "How Do Dinosaurs Say Good-Night?" I'll share a question arising twice during two entirely separate discussions about the novel "Fever 1793." Is it likely that an African American domestic employee of a white Philadelphia family would realistically and voluntarily return to assist that family personally and/or in their business to the extent that this happens in this particular story? These are serious questions from individuals or groups wanting to fully appreciate each book, but finding it difficult to do so. No different from the kinds of questions confronting any award committee or task force sorting out books to name as some of the best of the year, or anyone browsing through books in a library or bookstore at any time.
Keep those favorites coming... Best, 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 06 Dec 2000 05:13:04 PM CST
