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From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 13:35:20 -0600
This month we invite you all to share some of your favorite titles of the year. What book has particularly stood out to you in 2002?
Let's start with some of the picture books you have found especially noteworthy. Tell us what you like and why.
My own favorite picture book of 2002 is one that Ann Pentecost brought to our attention in last month's discussion of families: "White Swan Express" by Jean Davies Okimoto and Elaine M. Aoki, illustrated by Meilo So. As soon as Ann mentioned it as an excellent book about four North American families adopting babies from China, I sought it out, and was not disppointed. I especially appreciated the way in which the four distinctive families became a community on the plane over to China, and the way in which the authors portrayed the four distinctive little girls in the same orphanage in Guangdong. I hope you all will get a chance to see it.
KT
Kathleen T. Horning, Acting Director Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
horning at education.wisc.edu Voice: 608&3721 Fax: 608&2I33 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Tue 03 Dec 2002 01:35:20 PM CST
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 13:35:20 -0600
This month we invite you all to share some of your favorite titles of the year. What book has particularly stood out to you in 2002?
Let's start with some of the picture books you have found especially noteworthy. Tell us what you like and why.
My own favorite picture book of 2002 is one that Ann Pentecost brought to our attention in last month's discussion of families: "White Swan Express" by Jean Davies Okimoto and Elaine M. Aoki, illustrated by Meilo So. As soon as Ann mentioned it as an excellent book about four North American families adopting babies from China, I sought it out, and was not disppointed. I especially appreciated the way in which the four distinctive families became a community on the plane over to China, and the way in which the authors portrayed the four distinctive little girls in the same orphanage in Guangdong. I hope you all will get a chance to see it.
KT
Kathleen T. Horning, Acting Director Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706
horning at education.wisc.edu Voice: 608&3721 Fax: 608&2I33 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Tue 03 Dec 2002 01:35:20 PM CST
