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From: Betty Tisel <tiselfar>
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 10:34:21 -0500
Hello CCBC-netters I?ve been mostly working my way through the assigned list for the CLNE conference in August ( http://www.clne.org/works.htm ). This is the nineteenth and penultimate year for that wonderful conference. This year?s theme is ?The Fairy Tale Belongs to the Poor.? While plowing through Jack Zipes? tome The Great Fairy Tale Tradition, I?m taking breaks to read novels from the assigned list, so far including Hush by Jacqueline Woodson and Stitches by Glen Huser.
For family bedtime, the four of us at home are enjoying Howl?s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. We are reading it now so that when we see the movie this summer we will already have read the book... It is great fun; written in 1986. We are also reading stacks of picture books requested from the library thanks to CCBC Choices and Notable Books. One we especially enjoyed together: No Dogs Allowed by Sonia Manzano.
Don?t miss the two treatments of the story of Alia, a remarkable librarian in Basra, Iraq, by Mark Alan Stamaty (Alia?s Mission) and Jeannette Winter
(The Librarian of Basra). I like Winter?s better; Stamaty?s glib description of the purpose of the Iraq war turned me off on the first page, although it is still a fascinating read in graphic novel style.
On the adult side: The Almond Picker by Simonetta Agnello Hornby ? an engrossing and unusual read, and Alexander McCall Smith?s hilarious Von Igelfeld trilogy.
Betty Tisel Book and reading advocate, parent Minneapolis Minnesota
Received on Sun 22 May 2005 10:34:21 AM CDT
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 10:34:21 -0500
Hello CCBC-netters I?ve been mostly working my way through the assigned list for the CLNE conference in August ( http://www.clne.org/works.htm ). This is the nineteenth and penultimate year for that wonderful conference. This year?s theme is ?The Fairy Tale Belongs to the Poor.? While plowing through Jack Zipes? tome The Great Fairy Tale Tradition, I?m taking breaks to read novels from the assigned list, so far including Hush by Jacqueline Woodson and Stitches by Glen Huser.
For family bedtime, the four of us at home are enjoying Howl?s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. We are reading it now so that when we see the movie this summer we will already have read the book... It is great fun; written in 1986. We are also reading stacks of picture books requested from the library thanks to CCBC Choices and Notable Books. One we especially enjoyed together: No Dogs Allowed by Sonia Manzano.
Don?t miss the two treatments of the story of Alia, a remarkable librarian in Basra, Iraq, by Mark Alan Stamaty (Alia?s Mission) and Jeannette Winter
(The Librarian of Basra). I like Winter?s better; Stamaty?s glib description of the purpose of the Iraq war turned me off on the first page, although it is still a fascinating read in graphic novel style.
On the adult side: The Almond Picker by Simonetta Agnello Hornby ? an engrossing and unusual read, and Alexander McCall Smith?s hilarious Von Igelfeld trilogy.
Betty Tisel Book and reading advocate, parent Minneapolis Minnesota
Received on Sun 22 May 2005 10:34:21 AM CDT
