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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:47:00 -0500
Here are the Upcoming Topics on CCBC-Net:
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 teenagers.
We'd planned on officially opening the September discussion on the 6th, and continue to leave the days thorugh Labor Day for announcements. But if people would like to start, and at Maia's suggestion explore start with regional literature of the Gulf Coast region in the U.S., that is fine!
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
ph: 608-262-9503 fax: 608-262-4933 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Fri 02 Sep 2005 10:47:00 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:47:00 -0500
Here are the Upcoming Topics on CCBC-Net:
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 teenagers.
We'd planned on officially opening the September discussion on the 6th, and continue to leave the days thorugh Labor Day for announcements. But if people would like to start, and at Maia's suggestion explore start with regional literature of the Gulf Coast region in the U.S., that is fine!
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
ph: 608-262-9503 fax: 608-262-4933 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Fri 02 Sep 2005 10:47:00 AM CDT
