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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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From: Jonathan Hunt <jhunt24>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:50:02 +0000
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT was longlisted for the Booker Prize, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and is shortlisted for the inaugural Booktrust Teenage Fiction Prize (although my preference is for DOING IT by Melvin Burgess), and may yet be shortlisted for the Whitbread and Carnegie. You can see the covers for both the Jonathan Cape and David Fickling editions at amazon.co.uk
LITERATURE ABOUT COMMUNITY . . . The book I'd like to suggest here is an oldie, but a goodie: THE WESTING GAME by Ellen Raskin. I love the diversity of this community, a cross section--or microcosm, as it were, of American society. And I love to see how forces of cooperation and competition play out in this little community. And since the reader's attention is focused squarely on the puzzle-mystery he/she often misses these subtler elements, I think. (and for those of you who really liked Jeff Woodman's reading of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT should enjoy his reading of this one, too!)
COMMUNITY THROUGH LITERATURE . . . A great classroom read aloud experience can be such a bonding experience. Hearing a story with others versus reading it independently--it's like the difference between watching a video at home or watching the same movie in the theater. There is an added dimension of pleasure in sharing reactions of delight, horror, humor, suspense, and surprise. My most consistently successful read alouds over the years have been HARRIS AND ME by Gary Paulsen and THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Philip Pullman.
Jonathan
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Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:50:02 +0000
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT was longlisted for the Booker Prize, won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and is shortlisted for the inaugural Booktrust Teenage Fiction Prize (although my preference is for DOING IT by Melvin Burgess), and may yet be shortlisted for the Whitbread and Carnegie. You can see the covers for both the Jonathan Cape and David Fickling editions at amazon.co.uk
LITERATURE ABOUT COMMUNITY . . . The book I'd like to suggest here is an oldie, but a goodie: THE WESTING GAME by Ellen Raskin. I love the diversity of this community, a cross section--or microcosm, as it were, of American society. And I love to see how forces of cooperation and competition play out in this little community. And since the reader's attention is focused squarely on the puzzle-mystery he/she often misses these subtler elements, I think. (and for those of you who really liked Jeff Woodman's reading of THE CURIOUS INCIDENT should enjoy his reading of this one, too!)
COMMUNITY THROUGH LITERATURE . . . A great classroom read aloud experience can be such a bonding experience. Hearing a story with others versus reading it independently--it's like the difference between watching a video at home or watching the same movie in the theater. There is an added dimension of pleasure in sharing reactions of delight, horror, humor, suspense, and surprise. My most consistently successful read alouds over the years have been HARRIS AND ME by Gary Paulsen and THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Philip Pullman.
Jonathan
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