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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:33:08 -0600
Nick Glass asked why Jack Gantos's Hole in My Life wasn't on our list.
Another individual asked me, here at the CCBC, why Feed wasn't on our list.
I'll answer the 2nd first: we had to have our list finalized by the end of September because we were partnering with the Madison Metropolitan School District, and the district had to have time to order multiple copies of each book so their participants could read them. We had not received "Feed" at the CCBC at the time we were putting the list together. While I don't want to speak for my CCBC colleagues, Kathleen Horning and Merri V. Lindgren, I do know from our informal discussions that all three of us appreciate Feed and had we seen it at the time we were putting the lsit together it would no doubt have been on it.
Regarding Hole in My Life: no mock list can cover everything, and there are only so many books that can be discussed by large group of people in a given timeframe. We might have put Hole in My Life on our list, but there are a number of other well-reviewed titles we might also have added, such as Elizabeth Partridge's "This Land Was Made for You and Me," which Ginny Moore Kruse just mentioned as another fine piece of writing this year.
We always have an orientation as part of our mock discussions, and during that time we provide an overview of some of the other eligible books that were not on our reading list, in part to give participants a fuller understanding of the scope of the award. For the Printz, that scope is particularly broad (and, I think, invigorating), since anthologies and books originally published in other countries are eligible, in addition to titles across genres.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, Wi 53706 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 18 Dec 2002 01:33:08 PM CST
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 13:33:08 -0600
Nick Glass asked why Jack Gantos's Hole in My Life wasn't on our list.
Another individual asked me, here at the CCBC, why Feed wasn't on our list.
I'll answer the 2nd first: we had to have our list finalized by the end of September because we were partnering with the Madison Metropolitan School District, and the district had to have time to order multiple copies of each book so their participants could read them. We had not received "Feed" at the CCBC at the time we were putting the list together. While I don't want to speak for my CCBC colleagues, Kathleen Horning and Merri V. Lindgren, I do know from our informal discussions that all three of us appreciate Feed and had we seen it at the time we were putting the lsit together it would no doubt have been on it.
Regarding Hole in My Life: no mock list can cover everything, and there are only so many books that can be discussed by large group of people in a given timeframe. We might have put Hole in My Life on our list, but there are a number of other well-reviewed titles we might also have added, such as Elizabeth Partridge's "This Land Was Made for You and Me," which Ginny Moore Kruse just mentioned as another fine piece of writing this year.
We always have an orientation as part of our mock discussions, and during that time we provide an overview of some of the other eligible books that were not on our reading list, in part to give participants a fuller understanding of the scope of the award. For the Printz, that scope is particularly broad (and, I think, invigorating), since anthologies and books originally published in other countries are eligible, in addition to titles across genres.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, Wi 53706 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 18 Dec 2002 01:33:08 PM CST
