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From: Lora Koehler <LKoehler>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:50:09 -0600
I'm new to this list and have really enjoyed the discussion. The following announcement of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award was sent out in Publisher's Weekly Daily yesterday. Personally, I really love this book, but, as a non-Spanish speaker, was a little intimidated reading it aloud. Perhaps it would have helped if I hadn't first attempted it with a group of 50 or so kids that included a large number of Latinas..... Reading it with my niece was a much better experience!
Koehler
Children's Librarian
Salt Lake County Library System
Read This One Aloud
The Association of Booksellers for Children has announced that Skippyjon Jones by Judith Byron Schachner (Dutton, 2003) is the first winner of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. The award was established this year to honor a book that reflects the read-aloud standards that were created by the work of the author E.B. White in his classics Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan.
Schachner's picture book stars a Siamese kitten whose imagination takes off after he is sent to his room for a time-out. He dreams himself to be a sword-fighting Chihuahua who speaks in a mix of English and Spanish, and goes off in search of adventure to prove that he is anything but an ordinary cat.
Lisa Dugan, children's buyer for Koen Book Distributors and an ABC board member, says that she is thrilled with the selection of Skippyjon Jones for the award. "It's so great that the ABC has chosen a book that booksellers really love but pretty much missed gaining national recognition," she said. "The book is so much fun to read aloud, and Skippyjon Jones is such a great character."
The author's own cat provided the inspiration for the character of Skippyjon Jones. Back when the book came out, Dugan said to Schachner, "'I hear that you based this book on your cat and that you imagine he talks to you in a Spanish accent.' She said, 'No... I don't 'imagine' he talks to me--he really does.' "--Joy Bean
Received on Fri 27 Aug 2004 12:50:09 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 11:50:09 -0600
I'm new to this list and have really enjoyed the discussion. The following announcement of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award was sent out in Publisher's Weekly Daily yesterday. Personally, I really love this book, but, as a non-Spanish speaker, was a little intimidated reading it aloud. Perhaps it would have helped if I hadn't first attempted it with a group of 50 or so kids that included a large number of Latinas..... Reading it with my niece was a much better experience!
Koehler
Children's Librarian
Salt Lake County Library System
Read This One Aloud
The Association of Booksellers for Children has announced that Skippyjon Jones by Judith Byron Schachner (Dutton, 2003) is the first winner of the E.B. White Read Aloud Award. The award was established this year to honor a book that reflects the read-aloud standards that were created by the work of the author E.B. White in his classics Charlotte's Web, Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan.
Schachner's picture book stars a Siamese kitten whose imagination takes off after he is sent to his room for a time-out. He dreams himself to be a sword-fighting Chihuahua who speaks in a mix of English and Spanish, and goes off in search of adventure to prove that he is anything but an ordinary cat.
Lisa Dugan, children's buyer for Koen Book Distributors and an ABC board member, says that she is thrilled with the selection of Skippyjon Jones for the award. "It's so great that the ABC has chosen a book that booksellers really love but pretty much missed gaining national recognition," she said. "The book is so much fun to read aloud, and Skippyjon Jones is such a great character."
The author's own cat provided the inspiration for the character of Skippyjon Jones. Back when the book came out, Dugan said to Schachner, "'I hear that you based this book on your cat and that you imagine he talks to you in a Spanish accent.' She said, 'No... I don't 'imagine' he talks to me--he really does.' "--Joy Bean
Received on Fri 27 Aug 2004 12:50:09 PM CDT
