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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:41:13 -0500
This month on CCBC-Net, we are looking at popular culture and children's and young adult literature. From TV Tie-Ins to plush toys, instant messaging to emoticons, literature for children and young adults is connected in numerous ways to popular culture. We'll explore way book and publishing today reflect popular culture, and sometimes play a part in defining it.
How have you seen popular culture affect or influcence children's and young adult literature? How have you seen it influence the reading, or reading habits, of children and young adults?
For me, one obvious answer to the first question is visible every time I walk into the children's department of a large bookstore and am overwhemed by the tv-ties, celebrity books, and books related to the whatever holiday is coming up next. Popular culture is highly visible, rendering so many more substantial books invisible, and often unavailable, on the shelves.
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 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 06 Jul 2004 09:41:13 AM CDT
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:41:13 -0500
This month on CCBC-Net, we are looking at popular culture and children's and young adult literature. From TV Tie-Ins to plush toys, instant messaging to emoticons, literature for children and young adults is connected in numerous ways to popular culture. We'll explore way book and publishing today reflect popular culture, and sometimes play a part in defining it.
How have you seen popular culture affect or influcence children's and young adult literature? How have you seen it influence the reading, or reading habits, of children and young adults?
For me, one obvious answer to the first question is visible every time I walk into the children's department of a large bookstore and am overwhemed by the tv-ties, celebrity books, and books related to the whatever holiday is coming up next. Popular culture is highly visible, rendering so many more substantial books invisible, and often unavailable, on the shelves.
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 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 06 Jul 2004 09:41:13 AM CDT
