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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 04:41:06 -0600
This more or less sums up where we've been during recent days. As I read the apt quote from Ursula LeGuin shared by Betsy Partridge, I was further reminded that we can - as the cliche goes - agree to disagree.
However, I'm also thinking about relative importance. Some of our book comments concerns are weighty, i.e., the perceived misrepresentation of a group of people. Some are, perhaps, less significant within the proverbial big picture. And some relate to audience, i.e., what about explicit violence in a book most likely to appeal to younger skilled readers? I maintain that when a book is under consideration for a major national award, everything matters, regardless of the intent of the award or the composition of the jury. This, too, is relative.
You're invited to continue to respond to any of the five books brought under the spotlight because they either won or were shortlisted finalists for the 2000 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, or to comments already made within the CCBC-Net community about the NBA process and related thoughts. A reminder of the titles: The Homeless Bird, Forgotten Fire, Many Stones, The Book of the Lion, and Hurry Freedom!
Who has read Hurry Freedom!, and who can help everyone else out by making comments on this book?
Katy Horning and I are leaving this morning to participate in the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference in Washington, D.C. Please introduce yourself if you run into us, and we aren't acquainted yet by name or in real times/places. We expect to learn a lot, and we hope to share some of what we find out with the CCBC-Net community during the weeks to come.
Megan will facilitate our January discussion beginning today, so if you have "backstage" questions or concerns, contact her schliesman at education.wisc.edu , rather than writing to Katy or me. You'll be in the middle of your open responses to any of the ALA award announcements when Katy & I return to the CCBC next week. Tomorrow Megan will provide links to the award information for your convenience, and she'll send the award information directly to the CCBC-Net community on Tuesday.
Although Chris Dowling is on vacation right now, assistance with technical matters is available from his and our colleague Dan Osmundson. Megan will contact Dan on your behalf if there is any question of that nature.
This is a lively discussion, and we're getting at some basic information, as well as raising important questions. Keep it up!
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at 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 Thu 11 Jan 2001 04:41:06 AM CST
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 04:41:06 -0600
This more or less sums up where we've been during recent days. As I read the apt quote from Ursula LeGuin shared by Betsy Partridge, I was further reminded that we can - as the cliche goes - agree to disagree.
However, I'm also thinking about relative importance. Some of our book comments concerns are weighty, i.e., the perceived misrepresentation of a group of people. Some are, perhaps, less significant within the proverbial big picture. And some relate to audience, i.e., what about explicit violence in a book most likely to appeal to younger skilled readers? I maintain that when a book is under consideration for a major national award, everything matters, regardless of the intent of the award or the composition of the jury. This, too, is relative.
You're invited to continue to respond to any of the five books brought under the spotlight because they either won or were shortlisted finalists for the 2000 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, or to comments already made within the CCBC-Net community about the NBA process and related thoughts. A reminder of the titles: The Homeless Bird, Forgotten Fire, Many Stones, The Book of the Lion, and Hurry Freedom!
Who has read Hurry Freedom!, and who can help everyone else out by making comments on this book?
Katy Horning and I are leaving this morning to participate in the American Library Association's Midwinter Conference in Washington, D.C. Please introduce yourself if you run into us, and we aren't acquainted yet by name or in real times/places. We expect to learn a lot, and we hope to share some of what we find out with the CCBC-Net community during the weeks to come.
Megan will facilitate our January discussion beginning today, so if you have "backstage" questions or concerns, contact her schliesman at education.wisc.edu , rather than writing to Katy or me. You'll be in the middle of your open responses to any of the ALA award announcements when Katy & I return to the CCBC next week. Tomorrow Megan will provide links to the award information for your convenience, and she'll send the award information directly to the CCBC-Net community on Tuesday.
Although Chris Dowling is on vacation right now, assistance with technical matters is available from his and our colleague Dan Osmundson. Megan will contact Dan on your behalf if there is any question of that nature.
This is a lively discussion, and we're getting at some basic information, as well as raising important questions. Keep it up!
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at 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 Thu 11 Jan 2001 04:41:06 AM CST
