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From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:19:13 -0500
I'm pleased to announce that M.E. Kerr has joined CCBC-Net in order to participate in our discussion of her books. Please feel free to direct any comments or questions you might have for her to the group at large. Don't be shy!
If you haven't already visited her official website, please take the time to browse around when you get a chance. The url is: http://www.mekerr.com/
Earlier this week, Nancy Mercado asked a question about how "Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack" was received in its time, and whether there was any difficulty in getting it published. I'll print the full context of Nancy's query below, and hope that M.E. Kerr will respond directly to it.
And any of the rest of you who have comments or questions about her books, please jump in.
Here's Nancy:
"Some time last year I stumbled upon a signed copy of Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack in a small used bookstore in Nebraska. After finishing it I had that feeling of striking gold. (It was the same feeling when, as a teen, I "discovered" Paul Zindel.) This book was unlike any I had read before...and it truly changed the way I think about writing forever. There is something so unconventional about her style. Ms. Kerr only puts in the very essential....everything else is left out...and you don't miss it at all. In Dinky, she so successfully captures that feeling of being so suffocated by misinformed and oblivious parents. Everything I read after Dinky felt a bit dull in comparison. Her characters are unlike any other. Dinky Hocker, oh my goodness! She is one of those living, breathing characters you never forget. "THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE SHAFT!" It doesn't get any better. Kerr's characters are not stock characters with pasty or flimsy dimensions. They are flesh and blood, ever changing... and often times unlikable (P. John Night is my most favorite un?vorite character!) I would love to know a bit more about how this book was received when it was first published. To me it felt revolutionary. (I wondered if it was a tough to get it published at that time??) "
Kathleen T. Horning (horning at education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706 608&3930 FAX: 608&2I33 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Wed 12 Jun 2002 11:19:13 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:19:13 -0500
I'm pleased to announce that M.E. Kerr has joined CCBC-Net in order to participate in our discussion of her books. Please feel free to direct any comments or questions you might have for her to the group at large. Don't be shy!
If you haven't already visited her official website, please take the time to browse around when you get a chance. The url is: http://www.mekerr.com/
Earlier this week, Nancy Mercado asked a question about how "Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack" was received in its time, and whether there was any difficulty in getting it published. I'll print the full context of Nancy's query below, and hope that M.E. Kerr will respond directly to it.
And any of the rest of you who have comments or questions about her books, please jump in.
Here's Nancy:
"Some time last year I stumbled upon a signed copy of Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack in a small used bookstore in Nebraska. After finishing it I had that feeling of striking gold. (It was the same feeling when, as a teen, I "discovered" Paul Zindel.) This book was unlike any I had read before...and it truly changed the way I think about writing forever. There is something so unconventional about her style. Ms. Kerr only puts in the very essential....everything else is left out...and you don't miss it at all. In Dinky, she so successfully captures that feeling of being so suffocated by misinformed and oblivious parents. Everything I read after Dinky felt a bit dull in comparison. Her characters are unlike any other. Dinky Hocker, oh my goodness! She is one of those living, breathing characters you never forget. "THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE SHAFT!" It doesn't get any better. Kerr's characters are not stock characters with pasty or flimsy dimensions. They are flesh and blood, ever changing... and often times unlikable (P. John Night is my most favorite un?vorite character!) I would love to know a bit more about how this book was received when it was first published. To me it felt revolutionary. (I wondered if it was a tough to get it published at that time??) "
Kathleen T. Horning (horning at education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706 608&3930 FAX: 608&2I33 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Wed 12 Jun 2002 11:19:13 AM CDT
