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From: Becky Stephens <bbstephens>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:27:41 -0500
Cathy,
I have used this book with 3 third grade classes. They were highly intrigued by it -- both story and illustration. They understood the meaning of the cautionary tale. They understood why the illustrator chose to use black, white, and gray instead of color in order that we would get an eerie feeling as is appropriate to the text. They also enjoyed the humor in it. A teacher extended the reading by having them write and illustrate a time when they had been a "spider" or "fly." In this way they related the tale to their lives. I wouldn't use this book below 3rd grade, but it worked with this age group.
The request made most often in my elementary library is for a scary book. We adults often fear using books with children that they would enjoy the most because of our concerns born of life experience, but children love a scary story read to them in a safe setting. Where the Wild Things Are and the Grimm fairy tales are just a few examples of titles that children love and adults fear or want to sanitize. I hope that won't happen to The Spider and the Fly.
Becky B. Stephens Library Media Specialist Adjunct Faculty Hearn Elementary School School of Library and Information Science Frankfort, KY University of Kentucky
Message----From: briggs at tweedledee.sr.unh.edu [mailto:briggs at tweedledee.sr.unh.edu] Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 2:49 PM To: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: [ccbc-net] The Spider and the Fly
I see that Cathy Norman has used this book with young children and they were not scared by the pictures. I was "scared" or perhaps uneasy is a better word. I found especially troubling the picture of the fly all wrapped up in the spider's threads, eyes wide open in horror as the spider's shadow dances on the wall (lovely artwork, but good for kids?)
If children don't mind, then we adults should not complain. Has anyone used this book with negative results?
Barbara Briggs
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Received on Mon 17 Feb 2003 03:27:41 PM CST
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:27:41 -0500
Cathy,
I have used this book with 3 third grade classes. They were highly intrigued by it -- both story and illustration. They understood the meaning of the cautionary tale. They understood why the illustrator chose to use black, white, and gray instead of color in order that we would get an eerie feeling as is appropriate to the text. They also enjoyed the humor in it. A teacher extended the reading by having them write and illustrate a time when they had been a "spider" or "fly." In this way they related the tale to their lives. I wouldn't use this book below 3rd grade, but it worked with this age group.
The request made most often in my elementary library is for a scary book. We adults often fear using books with children that they would enjoy the most because of our concerns born of life experience, but children love a scary story read to them in a safe setting. Where the Wild Things Are and the Grimm fairy tales are just a few examples of titles that children love and adults fear or want to sanitize. I hope that won't happen to The Spider and the Fly.
Becky B. Stephens Library Media Specialist Adjunct Faculty Hearn Elementary School School of Library and Information Science Frankfort, KY University of Kentucky
Message----From: briggs at tweedledee.sr.unh.edu [mailto:briggs at tweedledee.sr.unh.edu] Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 2:49 PM To: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: [ccbc-net] The Spider and the Fly
I see that Cathy Norman has used this book with young children and they were not scared by the pictures. I was "scared" or perhaps uneasy is a better word. I found especially troubling the picture of the fly all wrapped up in the spider's threads, eyes wide open in horror as the spider's shadow dances on the wall (lovely artwork, but good for kids?)
If children don't mind, then we adults should not complain. Has anyone used this book with negative results?
Barbara Briggs
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