From: Jonathan Hunt <jhunt24>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:49:55

SURVIVING HITLER and BROOKLYN BRIDGE have circulated nicely among my fifth grade students. BLACK POTATOES and VINCENT VAN GOGH have been a harder sell, but as Megan mentioned they might be more enticing to a slightly older audience anyway.

I have a question regarding the documentation in BLACK POTATOES. I love the exhaustive source notes, but wonder why exact quotes were not referenced in end notes. I especially wonder about this as I have heard the book served as Bartoletti's doctoral dissertation, and these would have likely been included in the manuscript at some point anyway (but please correct me if I am wrong). Why go from a more exact, more precise form of documentation to a lesser one? Was this an authorial decision or an editorial one? Do publishers think superscripted numbers in a text make informational books less accessible for younger readers?

I hope no one will construe this as a criticism of BLACK POTATOES because I like the book very much and think it is a fine Sibert winner.

Jonathan

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