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From: Merri Lindgren <Mlindgren>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:25:30 -0600
A group of teachers, librarians and others met last night for the annual CCBC mock Newbery Award discussion. The group selected the following titles:
Winner: When My Name Was Keoko written by Linda Sue Park. Clarion, 2002
Honor Books: The House of the Scorpion written by Nancy Farmer. A Richard Jackson Book / Atheneum, 2002
The Same Stuff as Stars written by Katherine Paterson. Clarion, 2002
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie written by Elizabeth Partridge. Viking, 2002
The complete list of titles we discussed is below:
Coraline written by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Dave McKean. Harpercollins, 2002
Dillon Dillon written by Kate Banks. Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
The House of the Scorpion written by Nancy Farmer. A Richard Jackson Book / Atheneum, 2002
Keeper of the Doves written by Betsy Byars. Viking, 2002
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie written by Elizabeth Partridge. Viking, 2002.
Loser written by Jerry Spinelli. Joanna Cotler Books, 2002
The Same Stuff as Stars written by Katherine Paterson. Clarion, 2002.
Time Pieces: A Book of Times written by Virginia Hamilton. The Blue Sky Press / Scholastic Inc., 2002
When My Name Was Keoko written by Linda Sue Park. Clarion, 2002
Two of the books from the CCBC mock Newbery discussion are also titles for CCBC-Net's current topic: the 2002 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. One of the NBA finalists, This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie, is a book that has already generated much discussion on CCBC-Net. Once again it provoked appreciative discussion, as our group last night commented on Elizabeth Partridge's masterful integration of reams of material. Opinions about documentation (there's that topic again!) and other specifics varied among individuals, but we all benefitted from hearing everyone's thoughtful insights.
Another finalist that has been particularly memorable for me since I first read it, is Feed (M.T. Anderson). Earlier this month, Lisa stated that "this examination of commercialization of all aspects of life does not come across as didactic, due to
[...] the moments of recognition that this future does not seem too far off" and that "the slang is not forced but feels like a natural evolution." I have had the experience several times recently of learning of an event, or catching a bit of overheard slang that immediately makes me think "that could be straight out of Feed!" I think the best writers of speculative fiction are able to make that leap from "what is" to "what could be" a convincing one, rather than relying on tired conventions of the genre.
We'll be continuing our discussion of the NBA winner and finalists through January 26th, so please add your thoughts. The books are: Winner: House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
Finalists: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons/ Penguin Putnam)
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking)
Feed by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press)
Merri
Merri Lindgren, Librarian mlindgren at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Merri Lindgren, Librarian mlindgren at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Thu 16 Jan 2003 04:25:30 PM CST
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:25:30 -0600
A group of teachers, librarians and others met last night for the annual CCBC mock Newbery Award discussion. The group selected the following titles:
Winner: When My Name Was Keoko written by Linda Sue Park. Clarion, 2002
Honor Books: The House of the Scorpion written by Nancy Farmer. A Richard Jackson Book / Atheneum, 2002
The Same Stuff as Stars written by Katherine Paterson. Clarion, 2002
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie written by Elizabeth Partridge. Viking, 2002
The complete list of titles we discussed is below:
Coraline written by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by Dave McKean. Harpercollins, 2002
Dillon Dillon written by Kate Banks. Frances Foster Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
The House of the Scorpion written by Nancy Farmer. A Richard Jackson Book / Atheneum, 2002
Keeper of the Doves written by Betsy Byars. Viking, 2002
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie written by Elizabeth Partridge. Viking, 2002.
Loser written by Jerry Spinelli. Joanna Cotler Books, 2002
The Same Stuff as Stars written by Katherine Paterson. Clarion, 2002.
Time Pieces: A Book of Times written by Virginia Hamilton. The Blue Sky Press / Scholastic Inc., 2002
When My Name Was Keoko written by Linda Sue Park. Clarion, 2002
Two of the books from the CCBC mock Newbery discussion are also titles for CCBC-Net's current topic: the 2002 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. One of the NBA finalists, This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie, is a book that has already generated much discussion on CCBC-Net. Once again it provoked appreciative discussion, as our group last night commented on Elizabeth Partridge's masterful integration of reams of material. Opinions about documentation (there's that topic again!) and other specifics varied among individuals, but we all benefitted from hearing everyone's thoughtful insights.
Another finalist that has been particularly memorable for me since I first read it, is Feed (M.T. Anderson). Earlier this month, Lisa stated that "this examination of commercialization of all aspects of life does not come across as didactic, due to
[...] the moments of recognition that this future does not seem too far off" and that "the slang is not forced but feels like a natural evolution." I have had the experience several times recently of learning of an event, or catching a bit of overheard slang that immediately makes me think "that could be straight out of Feed!" I think the best writers of speculative fiction are able to make that leap from "what is" to "what could be" a convincing one, rather than relying on tired conventions of the genre.
We'll be continuing our discussion of the NBA winner and finalists through January 26th, so please add your thoughts. The books are: Winner: House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (Atheneum)
Finalists: 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shihab Nye (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson (G.P. Putnam's Sons/ Penguin Putnam)
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie by Elizabeth Partridge (Viking)
Feed by M.T. Anderson (Candlewick Press)
Merri
Merri Lindgren, Librarian mlindgren at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Merri Lindgren, Librarian mlindgren at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Thu 16 Jan 2003 04:25:30 PM CST
