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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:37:45 -0500
Kathleen Horning's message earlier today reminds me to mention something she probably won't do herself. It's her own book "From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books" (HarperCollins, 1997, hardcover & pbk). In an opening chapter titled "Books of Information," Katy discusses critical standards one can apply when analyzing nonfiction books. Notice: "opening chapter." Typically
"nonfiction" or "informational books" can be found near the end of texts about Children's Literature; here it's given the primary position and can't be easily overlooked, or seen as "extra" or "other."
Katy's criteria for evaluating nonfiction should not be overlooked. Adult non-specialists and even school-age children can use them to evaluate a nonfiction book for young readers, even a book as highly visual as "Our Family Tree."
Another resource will be less immediate, and it's less easy to use than Katy's book is, but I want to point it out in case you've missed it so far. During April, 2002, the CCBC-Net community discussed "Creative Nonfiction." To see some of the extremely helpful commentaries about Creative Nonfiction during that discussion, go to the CCBC-Net Archives http://education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ (click on CCBC-Net and then on Past Discussions). Recently I've been collating these comments for a committee of which I'm a member, so I'm freshly aware of how helpful incisive of the comments are. Because the CCBC-Net archives aren't edited - at this time, anyway - you'll need to slog through repetitions of previous messages in order to read each new comment. Even so some of them will be of great interest to some of you.
Netiquette hint to all: It's helpful to current CCBC-Net readers and to future users of CCBC-Net Archives if we can all remember to delete previous messages whenever we reply or send a new message - and to rewrite a changed subject line, too, if necessary - something most of us (including myself) often neglect to do.
- Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
Received on Thu 14 Jul 2005 09:37:45 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:37:45 -0500
Kathleen Horning's message earlier today reminds me to mention something she probably won't do herself. It's her own book "From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children's Books" (HarperCollins, 1997, hardcover & pbk). In an opening chapter titled "Books of Information," Katy discusses critical standards one can apply when analyzing nonfiction books. Notice: "opening chapter." Typically
"nonfiction" or "informational books" can be found near the end of texts about Children's Literature; here it's given the primary position and can't be easily overlooked, or seen as "extra" or "other."
Katy's criteria for evaluating nonfiction should not be overlooked. Adult non-specialists and even school-age children can use them to evaluate a nonfiction book for young readers, even a book as highly visual as "Our Family Tree."
Another resource will be less immediate, and it's less easy to use than Katy's book is, but I want to point it out in case you've missed it so far. During April, 2002, the CCBC-Net community discussed "Creative Nonfiction." To see some of the extremely helpful commentaries about Creative Nonfiction during that discussion, go to the CCBC-Net Archives http://education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ (click on CCBC-Net and then on Past Discussions). Recently I've been collating these comments for a committee of which I'm a member, so I'm freshly aware of how helpful incisive of the comments are. Because the CCBC-Net archives aren't edited - at this time, anyway - you'll need to slog through repetitions of previous messages in order to read each new comment. Even so some of them will be of great interest to some of you.
Netiquette hint to all: It's helpful to current CCBC-Net readers and to future users of CCBC-Net Archives if we can all remember to delete previous messages whenever we reply or send a new message - and to rewrite a changed subject line, too, if necessary - something most of us (including myself) often neglect to do.
- Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
Received on Thu 14 Jul 2005 09:37:45 AM CDT
