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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:47:00 -0600
We've had several enthusiastic responses to Black Potatoes, and several insightful questions and comments with regard to documentation in that book. Thank you to Susan Campbell Bartoletti who shared her own struggles with how to handle the documentation in Black Potatoes, and to Rick for forwarding that message.
The issue of documentation is one that we will undoubtedly explore further in next month's discussion on creative nonfiction.
Jonathan mentioned that both Surviving Hitler and Brooklyn Bridge have been circulating with fifth graders. Who else can share what children and young adults have to say about these or other Sibert titles.
Personally, I was excited to see Vincent van Gogh among the books honored by the Sibert Committee. I felt I came away from this book with such insight into this man who painted through so much personal struggle with regard to his emotional well being As a young child, I remember seeing a copy of van Gogh's self-portrait with his bandaged ear and for years that image, and that understanding-?tually misunderstanding--of van Gogh as the artist who "cut off his ear" was one of the first things I thought of when I heard his name. Later, even as I came to know and appreciate more of his work and found out more about him, that childhood impression always haunted the back of my mind. I love knowing that young adults today have this opportunity to learn about the whole man, and his art, in a book that brings together fact with the writers' understanding of van Gogh on a number of levels--their knowledge of art, of the artist, and of his life.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 19 Mar 2002 10:47:00 AM CST
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 10:47:00 -0600
We've had several enthusiastic responses to Black Potatoes, and several insightful questions and comments with regard to documentation in that book. Thank you to Susan Campbell Bartoletti who shared her own struggles with how to handle the documentation in Black Potatoes, and to Rick for forwarding that message.
The issue of documentation is one that we will undoubtedly explore further in next month's discussion on creative nonfiction.
Jonathan mentioned that both Surviving Hitler and Brooklyn Bridge have been circulating with fifth graders. Who else can share what children and young adults have to say about these or other Sibert titles.
Personally, I was excited to see Vincent van Gogh among the books honored by the Sibert Committee. I felt I came away from this book with such insight into this man who painted through so much personal struggle with regard to his emotional well being As a young child, I remember seeing a copy of van Gogh's self-portrait with his bandaged ear and for years that image, and that understanding-?tually misunderstanding--of van Gogh as the artist who "cut off his ear" was one of the first things I thought of when I heard his name. Later, even as I came to know and appreciate more of his work and found out more about him, that childhood impression always haunted the back of my mind. I love knowing that young adults today have this opportunity to learn about the whole man, and his art, in a book that brings together fact with the writers' understanding of van Gogh on a number of levels--their knowledge of art, of the artist, and of his life.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 19 Mar 2002 10:47:00 AM CST
