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From: Elliott BatTzedek <ebattzedek>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:09:55 -0500
I was delighted that the Newbery team gave notice to excellence in writing in a picture book format. Show Way is just astoundingly good writing (and what a wonderful year for Jacqueline Woodson!). One of the drawbacks of the giving awards only the illustration in picture books is that the hard work of writing these texts goes un-awarded. I think it is high time a major award was given to the authors who create these short but rich and deep and broad and beautiful and emotionally rich texts.
Elliott batTzedek Children's Literacy Initiative
-----Original Message----- From: Pamela Turner [mailto:pstrst at pacbell.net] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:06 PM To: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: [CCBC-Net] Show Way
On the topic of award-winners, I am wondering what people think of "Show Way" ending up as a Newbery Honor. I found it very inventive (though the variety of styles in the artwork was a bit much) but the text is so short I was astounded that it ended up in the Newbery category. I thought it would be seriously considered for the Caldecott.
Pam Turner
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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:09:55 -0500
I was delighted that the Newbery team gave notice to excellence in writing in a picture book format. Show Way is just astoundingly good writing (and what a wonderful year for Jacqueline Woodson!). One of the drawbacks of the giving awards only the illustration in picture books is that the hard work of writing these texts goes un-awarded. I think it is high time a major award was given to the authors who create these short but rich and deep and broad and beautiful and emotionally rich texts.
Elliott batTzedek Children's Literacy Initiative
-----Original Message----- From: Pamela Turner [mailto:pstrst at pacbell.net] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:06 PM To: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: [CCBC-Net] Show Way
On the topic of award-winners, I am wondering what people think of "Show Way" ending up as a Newbery Honor. I found it very inventive (though the variety of styles in the artwork was a bit much) but the text is so short I was astounded that it ended up in the Newbery category. I thought it would be seriously considered for the Caldecott.
Pam Turner
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