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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:12:00 -0600
As we talk about the importance of the Belpre Award and Latino literature, and the need to increase the number of Latino books being published, I also want to invite everyone to turn their attention to the 2002 Belpre Illustrator Award Books.
The winner was Susan Guevara for Chato's Kitchen, written by Gary Soto.
Joe Cepeda received an illustrator honor for Juan Bobo Goes to Work, written by Marisa Montes.
What are your responses to these two works? Who has had experience using them with children?
As I mentioned last week, Joe Cepeda has agreed to answer questions from the CCBC-Net community about Juan Bobo. Joe is not part of CCBC-Net, but I am sharing messages from our discussion with him.
One of the things that strikes me about Juan Bobo, and that I' wondering if you can comment on, Joe, is the how textured the art work is. It looks like the medium used is the same as for your other books--oil (am I correct?)--but when I compare Juan Bobo to your art for other books you've illustrated, such as What a Truly Cool World by Julius Lester, or The Old Man & His Door by Gary Soto, I am struck by how they layering of paint really stands out. Was this a conscious decision made for this particular book? What kinds of decisions did you make in doing the art for Juan Bobo to reflect the stories Puerto Rican origins and setting, and also the fact that this is a tale about a fool?
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 27 Feb 2002 09:12:00 AM CST
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:12:00 -0600
As we talk about the importance of the Belpre Award and Latino literature, and the need to increase the number of Latino books being published, I also want to invite everyone to turn their attention to the 2002 Belpre Illustrator Award Books.
The winner was Susan Guevara for Chato's Kitchen, written by Gary Soto.
Joe Cepeda received an illustrator honor for Juan Bobo Goes to Work, written by Marisa Montes.
What are your responses to these two works? Who has had experience using them with children?
As I mentioned last week, Joe Cepeda has agreed to answer questions from the CCBC-Net community about Juan Bobo. Joe is not part of CCBC-Net, but I am sharing messages from our discussion with him.
One of the things that strikes me about Juan Bobo, and that I' wondering if you can comment on, Joe, is the how textured the art work is. It looks like the medium used is the same as for your other books--oil (am I correct?)--but when I compare Juan Bobo to your art for other books you've illustrated, such as What a Truly Cool World by Julius Lester, or The Old Man & His Door by Gary Soto, I am struck by how they layering of paint really stands out. Was this a conscious decision made for this particular book? What kinds of decisions did you make in doing the art for Juan Bobo to reflect the stories Puerto Rican origins and setting, and also the fact that this is a tale about a fool?
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 27 Feb 2002 09:12:00 AM CST
