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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:11:22 -0600
Thanks, Fran Manushkin, for alerting everyone to the audio taped format of NPR's Weekend Edition program featuring "Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart" by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow / HarperCollins) on Saturday. Scott Simon and Daniel Pinkwater seemed to be in awe of Vera Williams's brilliant writing. Their readings were well planned and appropriate to the tone of each poem they chose to feature. They understood that the poems almost simultaneously address several themes important to children. Mr. Pinkwater also made apt observations about the drawings at the beginning and end of this superb "album" of narrative poetry.
As well as having the source for the audio taped feature about "Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart," (see below, compliments of Fran), it's possible to everyone hear and see Vera B. Williams herself read some of the poems. To do that, visit the CCBC webcast created on April 28, 2001, while Ms. Williams was in Madison as a guest of the Friends of the CCBC: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/verawill.htm
Years ago Vera Williams read from a very early version of this manuscript at the Madison bookstore "A Room of One's Own." It's delightful to realize that a gifted writer can continue to develop an initially exciting idea for a book into the fully original, highly creative, memorable book it now has become. Someday I hope to hear a panel with Vera B. Williams, Editor Virginia Duncan (and Editor Susan Hirschman?), and Art Director Ava Weiss talking together about the evolution of "Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart." Don't ask when/where that will happen, because it's only in the "hope" section of my brain right now.
More important than my own personal hope is the assurance that more children than ever will enjoy "Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart," because so many adults heard about it and heard excerpts from it during NPR's Weekend Edition on Dec. 15.
FRAN MANUSHKIN'S MESSAGE WITH INFO ABOUT THE WEB TAPE :
12/16/01 05:54AM Yesterday, on Weekend Edition Saturday, on WNYC, Scott Simon and Daniel Pinkwater read parts of AMBER WAS BRAVE AND ESSIE WAS SMART...they loved the book. If you want to hear the reading, it's at this web address: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/20011215.wesat.17.ram
Cheers, 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 Mon 17 Dec 2001 03:11:22 PM CST
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:11:22 -0600
Thanks, Fran Manushkin, for alerting everyone to the audio taped format of NPR's Weekend Edition program featuring "Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart" by Vera B. Williams (Greenwillow / HarperCollins) on Saturday. Scott Simon and Daniel Pinkwater seemed to be in awe of Vera Williams's brilliant writing. Their readings were well planned and appropriate to the tone of each poem they chose to feature. They understood that the poems almost simultaneously address several themes important to children. Mr. Pinkwater also made apt observations about the drawings at the beginning and end of this superb "album" of narrative poetry.
As well as having the source for the audio taped feature about "Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart," (see below, compliments of Fran), it's possible to everyone hear and see Vera B. Williams herself read some of the poems. To do that, visit the CCBC webcast created on April 28, 2001, while Ms. Williams was in Madison as a guest of the Friends of the CCBC: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/verawill.htm
Years ago Vera Williams read from a very early version of this manuscript at the Madison bookstore "A Room of One's Own." It's delightful to realize that a gifted writer can continue to develop an initially exciting idea for a book into the fully original, highly creative, memorable book it now has become. Someday I hope to hear a panel with Vera B. Williams, Editor Virginia Duncan (and Editor Susan Hirschman?), and Art Director Ava Weiss talking together about the evolution of "Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart." Don't ask when/where that will happen, because it's only in the "hope" section of my brain right now.
More important than my own personal hope is the assurance that more children than ever will enjoy "Amber Was Brave, Essie Was Smart," because so many adults heard about it and heard excerpts from it during NPR's Weekend Edition on Dec. 15.
FRAN MANUSHKIN'S MESSAGE WITH INFO ABOUT THE WEB TAPE :
12/16/01 05:54AM Yesterday, on Weekend Edition Saturday, on WNYC, Scott Simon and Daniel Pinkwater read parts of AMBER WAS BRAVE AND ESSIE WAS SMART...they loved the book. If you want to hear the reading, it's at this web address: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/wesat/20011215.wesat.17.ram
Cheers, 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 Mon 17 Dec 2001 03:11:22 PM CST
