From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 12:31:03 -0600

Thanks to Joyce, Denise, Dean, Linnea, Ann, and Cathy for your varied observations about the Caldecott winner and/or Honor Books. We have a lot to think about.

We appreciate hearing from Susan about the discussion with college students during which Wiesner's The Three Pigs was disconstructed and
- at the same time - served as the focus for a discussion about post-structuralism and deconstruction. This was during a course Susan and a colleague taught for students in elementary education, Reading About Reading: Literary Theory and Children's Literature.

Appreciation, too, to Nick, for making it possible for the CCBC-Net community to benefit from the TeachingBooks information about The Three Pigs and also about David Wiesner http://www.teachingbooks.net.

We're going to move now to a brief Newbery Award and Honor Book discussion between now and January 11. We hope some of you have had a chance to read one or more of the three books honored by the 2002 Newbery Award process.

For information and background, please refer now to the ALA/ALSC web site information about these books and about the Newbery Award http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html

Here we go! Let's talk about A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
(Clarion);, Carver: A Life in Poems by Marilyn Nelson (Front Street); or Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath (Farrar). Three very different books, very different ways to point out distinguished writing.

- Ginny


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
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