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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 09:49:25 -0600

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CCBC WEB SITE NEWS www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/

The CCBC Book of the Week feature contains reviews highlighting excellent new books for all ages. The books recently reviewed are: Building Big written and illustrated by David Macaulay (Walter Lorraine / Houghton Mifflin, 2000); Ida B. Wells: Mother of the Civil Rights Movement by Dennis B. Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin. (Clarion, 2000); Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and illustrated by Ashley Bryan (Greenwillow / HarperCollins, 2000); When Winter Comes written by Nancy Van Laan and illustrated by Susan Gaber (Atheneum / Simon & Schuster, 2000); and Philipok written by Leo Tolstoy, translated from the Russian by Gennady Spirin, Jr., retold by Ann Keay Beneduce, and illustrated by Gennady Spirin (Philomel / Penguin Putnam, 2000). Click to http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/review.htm for this weekly feature on the CCBC web site.

The CCBC web site also contains specialized bibliographies (such as Beginning with Books: A Bibliography of Easy-to-Read Books for Use with Babies and Toddlers by Kathleen T. Horning http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/bibs/babies.htm and The Natural World in Books for Children and Young Adults by Ginny Moore Kruse and Kathleen T. Horning http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/bibs/nature.htm
); links of the month (such as the Read to Me web site http://www.readtomeny.com/ guided activities for teen parents wanting to read to their babies). There are other special features, too, such as Eliza T. Dresang's interview with Joseph Bruchac http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/bibs/nature.htm ; a look at Ellen Raskin's creative process by viewing manuscript pages from the drafts of her Newbery Award winning novel The Westing Game (Dutton, 1978) http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/wisauth/raskin/intro.htm ; and the publishing history of the first Newbery Award winner The Story of Mankind by Hendrick Van Loon first published in 1921 by Boni and Liveright http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/wisauth/raskin/intro.htm


The site index for the CCBC web site http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/site.htm will lead you to other one-of-a-kind features, such as unique Harry Potter information http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/hpreview.htm ; recent books about Wisconsin topics http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/wisc/about.htm ; and information about benefits of membership in the Friends of the CCBC http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/friends.htm . You'll discover have access to web cast speeches by Anthony Browne, Judith Cofer Ortiz, Emma Dryden & Marc Kornblatt, Lois Ehlert, Sarah Ellis, Jean Craighead George, Hector Viveros Lee, Julius Lester, Naomi Shihab Nye, Katherine Paterson and others http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/webcast.htm#points

Stop in for a virtual visit!

What is the CCBC? The Cooperative Children's Book Center is a noncirculating library for adults with an academic, professional or career interest in contemporary or historical children's or young adult literature. The CCBC is a library of the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and it supported annually by a contract from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's Division for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning. The CCBC facility and print collections are located in the heart of the UW-Madison campus at 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park Street
(corner of N. Park and Observatory Drive), Madison, WI 53706. During the spring and fall semesters, CCBC public service hours are Mon-Thurs 9-7; Fri-Sat 9-4; contact the CCBC for public service hours during breaks and intersessions. Web site: www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ Phone: 608&3720; Fax: 608&2?03; e-mail: ccbcinfo at education.wisc.edu


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 01 Feb 2001 09:49:25 AM CST