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From: Brianna Rewey <bsrewey>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:41:05 -0800 (PST)
I've been lurking on CCBC-NET on and off for the past few years. It's often hard for me to join in on discussions because so often I have not read the books that are being discussed. I am a librarian at a K school for the U.S. Department of Defense in Korea. Because of the way the ordering works with the government, I can only order books once a year. I'm usually quite a bit behind in my reading!
Well for once, I was on top of things! Some money was donated to the library in May so I put together a small book order at the end of last school year. The books were waiting for me when I returned to work in August. And because of this, for the first, and probably last time, our library had the books that won the Printz and Newbery awards!
Of course, the reason that I ordered those books
'early' is because of their connections to Korea. We already had Seesaw Girl and The Kite Fighters and they had proved popular among some of the elementary girls.
I shared A Single Shard with them as soon as we got it and they were so excited. Needless to say, they were even more excited to find out it won the Newbery award. I absolutely loved the book but never even really thought about it winning the Newbery. As I was reading the book I would ask my Korean library assistant questions about the locations in the book. We were able to find all the towns mentioned in the book. I also asked him about different references to Korean culture, for instance, the story of the women jumping from the rocks. He was absolutely amazed at how accurate the book was and became very curious about the author. When we found out she had only been to Korea once when she was 11 years old we were both amazed.
A Step from Heaven has been making its rounds in our school from the moment I read it. I don't know who likes it more...the students or the teachers. I wrote a book review of it in our high school newspaper a couple of months ago and it has not stayed on the shelf since then. It is such a powerful look into the dynamics of a Korean family.
It is a great time to be a librarian in Korea! There are so many uses for both of these books in our school. I'm excited that these books will be even more appealing to the students and teachers now that they have won these awards. The waiting lists just keep getting longer and longer. I couldn't be happier that these two fine books won!
Brianna Rewey Information Specialist Taegu American School Taegu, Korea
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Received on Thu 24 Jan 2002 11:41:05 PM CST
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:41:05 -0800 (PST)
I've been lurking on CCBC-NET on and off for the past few years. It's often hard for me to join in on discussions because so often I have not read the books that are being discussed. I am a librarian at a K school for the U.S. Department of Defense in Korea. Because of the way the ordering works with the government, I can only order books once a year. I'm usually quite a bit behind in my reading!
Well for once, I was on top of things! Some money was donated to the library in May so I put together a small book order at the end of last school year. The books were waiting for me when I returned to work in August. And because of this, for the first, and probably last time, our library had the books that won the Printz and Newbery awards!
Of course, the reason that I ordered those books
'early' is because of their connections to Korea. We already had Seesaw Girl and The Kite Fighters and they had proved popular among some of the elementary girls.
I shared A Single Shard with them as soon as we got it and they were so excited. Needless to say, they were even more excited to find out it won the Newbery award. I absolutely loved the book but never even really thought about it winning the Newbery. As I was reading the book I would ask my Korean library assistant questions about the locations in the book. We were able to find all the towns mentioned in the book. I also asked him about different references to Korean culture, for instance, the story of the women jumping from the rocks. He was absolutely amazed at how accurate the book was and became very curious about the author. When we found out she had only been to Korea once when she was 11 years old we were both amazed.
A Step from Heaven has been making its rounds in our school from the moment I read it. I don't know who likes it more...the students or the teachers. I wrote a book review of it in our high school newspaper a couple of months ago and it has not stayed on the shelf since then. It is such a powerful look into the dynamics of a Korean family.
It is a great time to be a librarian in Korea! There are so many uses for both of these books in our school. I'm excited that these books will be even more appealing to the students and teachers now that they have won these awards. The waiting lists just keep getting longer and longer. I couldn't be happier that these two fine books won!
Brianna Rewey Information Specialist Taegu American School Taegu, Korea
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Received on Thu 24 Jan 2002 11:41:05 PM CST
