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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:36:23 -0500
Here is the schedule of CCBC-Net topics for August and September:
August 4:: Harry Potter VI. We'll spend the first part of August talking about the latest volume of Harry Potter, and taking stock of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Are new readers continuing to flock to the series? What about the original youthful readers of HP? They've been aging faster than Harry. Seven years after the first book debuted, have many of them, unlike Harry, left Hogwarts behind? Or does it still hold a place in their imaginations?
August 151: Of Orphans, Abandonment and Children and Teens on Their Own. One way or another, many child and teen characters in literature are on their own. It's a phenomenon that's as old as children's fiction itself. Some characters are literal orphans, like Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket's Baudelaire children, or Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman family. Some of them, like Harry, have ended up, for better or for worse, in boarding schools Others, like the Baudelaires, are at the mercy of nefarious adults. Still others, like the Tillermans, struggle to make it on their own until one or more caring adults intervenes. Whether children have been literally orphaned, physically or emotionally abandoned, or temporarily removed from adult supervision, the plot of children on their own is an archetype that crosses all genres of children's fiction. We'll examine that archetype in the first half of August, including how it plays out differently between literature for children and literature for young adults.
September
First Part of Month: A Sense of Place: Regional Children's Literature. What books for children and young adults are particularly adept at capturing the physical and psychological geographies of a state, region or nation? Are there specific writers or books you think of as representative of a regional literature for youth? Are there books that offer surprising perspectives on a particular place? And what about books from or about other nations here in the United States? Overall few in number, do they bear an unfair burden of representing a country as a whole? We'll look at these and other issues in the first half of September.
Second Part of Month: The Books of Angela Johnson. From her early picture books for young children, such as Tell Me a Story, Mama and Do Like Kyla, to poetry and singular novels, Angela Johnson has been creating some of the most finely crafted, quietly dazzling literature for youth for well over a decade. In 2003, she was only the second author of books for young people to win a prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. In 2004, she won the Printz Award for literary excllence in young adult literature for her novel The First Part Last. In the second half of September, we'll discuss this gifted author's books for children and teenage.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
ph: 608&2?03 fax: 608&2I33 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 03 Aug 2005 08:36:23 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:36:23 -0500
Here is the schedule of CCBC-Net topics for August and September:
August 4:: Harry Potter VI. We'll spend the first part of August talking about the latest volume of Harry Potter, and taking stock of the Harry Potter phenomenon. Are new readers continuing to flock to the series? What about the original youthful readers of HP? They've been aging faster than Harry. Seven years after the first book debuted, have many of them, unlike Harry, left Hogwarts behind? Or does it still hold a place in their imaginations?
August 151: Of Orphans, Abandonment and Children and Teens on Their Own. One way or another, many child and teen characters in literature are on their own. It's a phenomenon that's as old as children's fiction itself. Some characters are literal orphans, like Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket's Baudelaire children, or Cynthia Voigt's Tillerman family. Some of them, like Harry, have ended up, for better or for worse, in boarding schools Others, like the Baudelaires, are at the mercy of nefarious adults. Still others, like the Tillermans, struggle to make it on their own until one or more caring adults intervenes. Whether children have been literally orphaned, physically or emotionally abandoned, or temporarily removed from adult supervision, the plot of children on their own is an archetype that crosses all genres of children's fiction. We'll examine that archetype in the first half of August, including how it plays out differently between literature for children and literature for young adults.
September
First Part of Month: A Sense of Place: Regional Children's Literature. What books for children and young adults are particularly adept at capturing the physical and psychological geographies of a state, region or nation? Are there specific writers or books you think of as representative of a regional literature for youth? Are there books that offer surprising perspectives on a particular place? And what about books from or about other nations here in the United States? Overall few in number, do they bear an unfair burden of representing a country as a whole? We'll look at these and other issues in the first half of September.
Second Part of Month: The Books of Angela Johnson. From her early picture books for young children, such as Tell Me a Story, Mama and Do Like Kyla, to poetry and singular novels, Angela Johnson has been creating some of the most finely crafted, quietly dazzling literature for youth for well over a decade. In 2003, she was only the second author of books for young people to win a prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. In 2004, she won the Printz Award for literary excllence in young adult literature for her novel The First Part Last. In the second half of September, we'll discuss this gifted author's books for children and teenage.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
ph: 608&2?03 fax: 608&2I33 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 03 Aug 2005 08:36:23 AM CDT
