From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 15:28:45 -0500

Robert Lipsyte will deliver the Fourth Annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 7:30 pm in the Wisconsin Union Theater, Madison, Wisconsin.

This free public lecture is sponsored by the Cooperative Children's Book Center of the School of Education at UW-Madison, the Friends of the CCBC, and gifts to the UW Foundation from friends of Charlotte Zolotow and individuals interested in this particular public lecture provided by the CCBC. Everyone is welcome. Please tell others.

Parking has been reserved for your car in the parking garage of Helen C. White Hall immediately to the west (or left) of the Union Theatre. Pay as you enter.

Robert Lipsyte is a young adult novelist & biographer and a syndicated columnist for the New York Times. His novels for young adults include The Contender, The Brave, Chief, and One Fat Summer. During 2001 he received the ALA/YALSA Margaret Edwards Award for those novels and because of his "transformation" of the genre of the young adult sports novel to "authentic literature." According to YALSA, in The Contender, The Brave and Chief readers find "the struggle of their protagonists to seek personal victory by their continuing efforts towards a better life, despite defeats. The same theme appears in the humorous One Fat Summer, in which an overweight boy deals with the timeless angst of body image. Lipsyte's books focus on the search for self?finition by young adults."

See the July issue of School Library Journal to read Walter Dean Myers's remarkable interview of Bob Lipsyte. It's certain to become a classic piece due to the comments of each about boys, sports, and being an outsider in the jock culture of this nation.

See the Sports Section of the New York Times to read Lipsyte's provocative columns about relevant topics such as Little League, NASCAR, and jock culture in general.
                Established in 1998, this annual lecture was named to honor Charlotte Zolotow, a distinguished children's book editor for 38 years with Harper Junior Books, and author of more than 65 picture books, including such classic works as "Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present"
(Harper, 1962) and "William's Doll" (Harper, 1972). Ms. Zolotow attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison on a writing scholarship from 19336 where she studied with Professor Helen C. White. The Cooperative Children's Book Center, a library of the School of Education of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, administers the event which each year brings a distinguished children's or young adult book author or illustrator to the campus to deliver a free public lecture.

One of the authors with whom Charlotte Zolotow worked as an editor, was Bob Lipsyte. Read what Bob Lipsyte himself has written about Charlotte Zolotow herself on the web site created in honor of her mother by Charlotte's daughter Crescent Dragonwagon http://www.charlottezolotow.com/Robert%20Lipsyte.htm

Questions about the lecture? Phone 608&3930.

Finally, watch the CBCC web site for additional information about the lecture http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/czlectur.htm

We'll hope to see you there! - Ginny


Ginny Moore Krusegmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Tue 04 Sep 2001 03:28:45 PM CDT