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From: Melody Allen <melody_allen>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:27:10 -0500
My 1968 college yearbook is full of senior photos featuring people draped across tree limbs and lying on lawns. I, myself, sat on a tree branch wearing a coral (nice word for orange) suit (skirt and jacket). Also, didn't people do data entry for those big computers which were around in the 70's?
To me Criss Cross is like reading a diary (or more than one) with doodles and poems and song lyrics and inner thoughts, relating day-to-day happenings instead of a "plot." Not all entries are fascinating, but it is like an expressionistic painting where the emotions aroused are more relevant than being representational. Melody Allen melody_allen at gw.doa.state.ri.us
>>> "Meg Robertson" <mroberts at ramsey.lib.mn.us> 02/20/06 01:11PM >>>
At our mock Newbery discussion, anachronistic elements in Criss Cross were also brought up. The older sister doing data entry for a computer company as a summer job was one, another was the mention of the casual poses of senior photos in the yearbook. We all agreed that if this were the 1970s as we thought it was, that senior yearbook photots were still very straightforward studio portraits.
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:27:10 -0500
My 1968 college yearbook is full of senior photos featuring people draped across tree limbs and lying on lawns. I, myself, sat on a tree branch wearing a coral (nice word for orange) suit (skirt and jacket). Also, didn't people do data entry for those big computers which were around in the 70's?
To me Criss Cross is like reading a diary (or more than one) with doodles and poems and song lyrics and inner thoughts, relating day-to-day happenings instead of a "plot." Not all entries are fascinating, but it is like an expressionistic painting where the emotions aroused are more relevant than being representational. Melody Allen melody_allen at gw.doa.state.ri.us
>>> "Meg Robertson" <mroberts at ramsey.lib.mn.us> 02/20/06 01:11PM >>>
At our mock Newbery discussion, anachronistic elements in Criss Cross were also brought up. The older sister doing data entry for a computer company as a summer job was one, another was the mention of the casual poses of senior photos in the yearbook. We all agreed that if this were the 1970s as we thought it was, that senior yearbook photots were still very straightforward studio portraits.
-- Meg Lloyd Robertson Assistant Branch Manager Maplewood Library mroberts at rclreads.org (651)704-2033 -- _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-netReceived on Mon 20 Feb 2006 12:27:10 PM CST
