From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:09:52 -0500

Robert Lipsyte will deliver the Fourth Annual Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 7:30 p.m. CDT in the Wisconsin Union Theater, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin
- Madison (corner of Langdon St. & Observatory Drive).

FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T COME TO THE UNION THEATER: We hope you can make it to the Zolotow Lecture, but if you can't, the lecture will be webcast via live (and archived) videostreaming: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/zolotow/czweb01.htm

FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN COME TO THE UNION THEATER: Everyone is welcome. Please pass this message along to others.

If you drive, parking has been reserved for your car in the upper parking garage of Helen C. White Hall immediately to the west (or left) of the Union Theater. Pay $3.50, as you enter. http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/czfaq.htm

Mr. Lipsyte's books will be available for sale by Canterbury Booksellers that evening. There will be autographing following the lecture.

QUESTIONS ABOUT THE LECTURE? Phone 608&3930 and/or visit the CCBC website http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/czlectur.htm

WHO IS ROBERT LIPSYTE ? 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 Robert 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 Robert Lipsyte's provocative columns about relevant topics such as Little League, NASCAR, and jock culture in general. His column published on Sept. 16, 2001, is - for me - one of the best essays published during recent days.
                WHO IS CHARLOTTE ZOLOTOW ? Established in 1998, this annual free campus 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. Ms. Zolotow attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison on a writing scholarship from 19336 where she studied with Professor Helen C. White. One of the authors with whom Charlotte Zolotow worked as an editor, was Robert 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

WHO SPONSORS THIS LECTURE ? The Cooperative Children's Book Center, a library of the School of Education of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, administers the Charlotte Zolotow Lecture. It is sponsored by the CCBC with the Friends of the CCBC, and underwritten by gifts to the UW Foundation from friends of Charlotte Zolotow and others who are interested in this particular way to honor her long Harper career.

We'll hope to see you there! And - if you're "there" via webcast, let Kathleen Horning know afterwards how this worked out for you: horning at education.wisc.edu

- 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 Mon 01 Oct 2001 02:09:52 PM CDT