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From: Shutta Crum <shutta>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:39:42 -0400
Also--Don't forget GODLESS by Hautman. About a kid that not only questions, but does design his own religion.
Shutta Crum www.shutta.com
(Bravest of the Brave, Knopf, 2005 Spitting Image, Clarion, 2003)
Message----From: Elliott BatTzedek [mailto:ebattzedek at cliontheweb.org] Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 6:32 PM To: Dotti Enderle; Norma Jean; Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: [ccbc-net] a great book on a kid questioning religious beliefs...
is the still-astounding "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." I taught this last fall in a graduate-level children's literature class, as an example in part of an author that has been challenged a lot. What amazed is that all of the women in the class had read it as girls, but not a single one remembered that the main plot is how Margaret is trying to decide what she believes, under pressure from her Jewish and Christian grandparents (the latter especially unhappy that her parents ever married). Everyone knows this as the "book about menstruation," but it is also so much more, and the students were so happy to revisit it and find this out.
Elliott batTzedek Curriculum and Collections Development Children's Literacy Initiative
r??qw
Received on Mon 27 Jun 2005 07:39:42 AM CDT
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 08:39:42 -0400
Also--Don't forget GODLESS by Hautman. About a kid that not only questions, but does design his own religion.
Shutta Crum www.shutta.com
(Bravest of the Brave, Knopf, 2005 Spitting Image, Clarion, 2003)
Message----From: Elliott BatTzedek [mailto:ebattzedek at cliontheweb.org] Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 6:32 PM To: Dotti Enderle; Norma Jean; Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: [ccbc-net] a great book on a kid questioning religious beliefs...
is the still-astounding "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." I taught this last fall in a graduate-level children's literature class, as an example in part of an author that has been challenged a lot. What amazed is that all of the women in the class had read it as girls, but not a single one remembered that the main plot is how Margaret is trying to decide what she believes, under pressure from her Jewish and Christian grandparents (the latter especially unhappy that her parents ever married). Everyone knows this as the "book about menstruation," but it is also so much more, and the students were so happy to revisit it and find this out.
Elliott batTzedek Curriculum and Collections Development Children's Literacy Initiative
r??qw
Received on Mon 27 Jun 2005 07:39:42 AM CDT
