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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:01:25 -0600
Susan Campbell Bartoletti has given me permission to share her message to me after I congratulated her about the honors for her book Hitler Youth. She wrote,
"I am completely happy and honored and thrilled with the recognition bestowed upon Hitler Youth. It's so much more than I ever could have dreamed. When I started out writing years ago, I remember sitting in an audience, listening to Jim Murphy, and I could not have ever imagined writing anything so important that would make people want to listen to me talk about it, let alone read about it. And so I consider myself truly blessed. I spoke to Sena Jeter Naslund the other day, and she asked how I felt, I could only tell her that, aside from the sensation that I was floating, I felt as though I wanted to work harder. That's the best kind of feeling. We're so lucky for our hands and our minds to have work that we love."
When the CCBC-Net community was discussing Creative Nonfiction (April, 2002) I began thinking about the way Susan Bartoletti shapes each of her narratives. That's why she wins writing awards. Once an award committee also studies her exemplary uses of primary sources and the ways she develops chapter notes and bibliographies, it's clear that she's raised the literary standards for "informational books" of interest to young readers - and also to the adult readers who discover them. It's her readers who are lucky. All of us.
- Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 14 Mar 2006 10:01:25 PM CST
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:01:25 -0600
Susan Campbell Bartoletti has given me permission to share her message to me after I congratulated her about the honors for her book Hitler Youth. She wrote,
"I am completely happy and honored and thrilled with the recognition bestowed upon Hitler Youth. It's so much more than I ever could have dreamed. When I started out writing years ago, I remember sitting in an audience, listening to Jim Murphy, and I could not have ever imagined writing anything so important that would make people want to listen to me talk about it, let alone read about it. And so I consider myself truly blessed. I spoke to Sena Jeter Naslund the other day, and she asked how I felt, I could only tell her that, aside from the sensation that I was floating, I felt as though I wanted to work harder. That's the best kind of feeling. We're so lucky for our hands and our minds to have work that we love."
When the CCBC-Net community was discussing Creative Nonfiction (April, 2002) I began thinking about the way Susan Bartoletti shapes each of her narratives. That's why she wins writing awards. Once an award committee also studies her exemplary uses of primary sources and the ways she develops chapter notes and bibliographies, it's clear that she's raised the literary standards for "informational books" of interest to young readers - and also to the adult readers who discover them. It's her readers who are lucky. All of us.
- Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 14 Mar 2006 10:01:25 PM CST
