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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:09:18 -0500
Thanks for sending these very helpful citations about Creative Nonfiction, Susan.
If you had written a book for children or young adults about a science topic, no doubt I would have been recommending earlier today. It was all I could do in my former message not to write that your newest book sets the highest standard for nonfiction writing for young readers. Even though it isn't about a science subject, now there's a way to cite your outstanding new book into our discussion, and there hasn't been any "backstage" collusion causing that to happen, either!
It's simply Chance.
No, it isn't Chance, because Susan Campbell Bartloletti has studied Creative Nonfiction and obviously puts what's she's learned into practice. Her new book is
"Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" (Scholastic Nonfiction, 2005).
And Chance isn't simple, either, but I'll leave it to some of the science experts in the CCBC-Net community to write for young readers about Chance and Probability.
- Ginn
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
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As long as we're on the subject of creative nonfiction and the wavy line between nonfiction and fiction, I'd like to recommend another resource:
IN FACT: THE BEST OF CREATIVE NONFICTION, edited by Lee Gutkind, considered by many as the "grandfather of creative nonfiction." He has written an interesting foreword titled, "The Creative Nonfiction Police." Annie Dillard's advice to writers is worth the cost of the book.
Mimi Schwartz also offers an interesting perspective in "Research and Creative Nonfiction," the Writer's Chronicle (December 2004).
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Received on Thu 14 Jul 2005 11:09:18 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:09:18 -0500
Thanks for sending these very helpful citations about Creative Nonfiction, Susan.
If you had written a book for children or young adults about a science topic, no doubt I would have been recommending earlier today. It was all I could do in my former message not to write that your newest book sets the highest standard for nonfiction writing for young readers. Even though it isn't about a science subject, now there's a way to cite your outstanding new book into our discussion, and there hasn't been any "backstage" collusion causing that to happen, either!
It's simply Chance.
No, it isn't Chance, because Susan Campbell Bartloletti has studied Creative Nonfiction and obviously puts what's she's learned into practice. Her new book is
"Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" (Scholastic Nonfiction, 2005).
And Chance isn't simple, either, but I'll leave it to some of the science experts in the CCBC-Net community to write for young readers about Chance and Probability.
- Ginn
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
y
As long as we're on the subject of creative nonfiction and the wavy line between nonfiction and fiction, I'd like to recommend another resource:
IN FACT: THE BEST OF CREATIVE NONFICTION, edited by Lee Gutkind, considered by many as the "grandfather of creative nonfiction." He has written an interesting foreword titled, "The Creative Nonfiction Police." Annie Dillard's advice to writers is worth the cost of the book.
Mimi Schwartz also offers an interesting perspective in "Research and Creative Nonfiction," the Writer's Chronicle (December 2004).
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Received on Thu 14 Jul 2005 11:09:18 AM CDT
