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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:11:05 -0500
The open announcement period on CCBC-Net is now over for April.
Thanks to those of you who have already gotten us started on the discussion of poetry!
In addition to hearing your own recent poetry favorites, and questions you have about poetry, we'd like to hear how you feature poetry in your work with children and teens.
One of the questions that has come up before when we've discussed poetry is the issue of illustration--is it necessary? Does it detract from a poem? Are there times when it brings something to the poem?
I'm an absolute believer that good poetry doesn' tneed illustration, and also that illustration does nothing to harm good poetry. And there are some instances when it brings a wonderful new dimension to a poem.
I have sitting on my desk a renovated classic: Casey at the Bat.
Several years ago Handprint issued an edition of Casey with marvelous illustrations by Christopher Bing that captured the time period in which the poem was originally written.
Now there is a newly illustrated edition from KCP Poetry, and imprint of Kids Can Press, that takes a completely different approach. Joe Morse's illustrations set the story of Casey in a contemporary city environment. Casey and the other players play the game behind the confines of a chain link fence in the midst of an urban neighborhood. The Mudville nine is a group of predominantly Black or mixed race kids who play a pickup game of baseball against a uniformed, perhaps semi-professional team that looks to be passing through. The teens in their baggy jeans and t-shirts are cheered on by folks watching from nearby highrises, as well as hip, tattooed observers on the sidelines. MOrse's style is immediate and dynamic, making this old fashioed poem suddenly fresh and new and relevant to contemporary kids and teens in a whole new way.
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 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Thu 06 Apr 2006 09:11:05 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 09:11:05 -0500
The open announcement period on CCBC-Net is now over for April.
Thanks to those of you who have already gotten us started on the discussion of poetry!
In addition to hearing your own recent poetry favorites, and questions you have about poetry, we'd like to hear how you feature poetry in your work with children and teens.
One of the questions that has come up before when we've discussed poetry is the issue of illustration--is it necessary? Does it detract from a poem? Are there times when it brings something to the poem?
I'm an absolute believer that good poetry doesn' tneed illustration, and also that illustration does nothing to harm good poetry. And there are some instances when it brings a wonderful new dimension to a poem.
I have sitting on my desk a renovated classic: Casey at the Bat.
Several years ago Handprint issued an edition of Casey with marvelous illustrations by Christopher Bing that captured the time period in which the poem was originally written.
Now there is a newly illustrated edition from KCP Poetry, and imprint of Kids Can Press, that takes a completely different approach. Joe Morse's illustrations set the story of Casey in a contemporary city environment. Casey and the other players play the game behind the confines of a chain link fence in the midst of an urban neighborhood. The Mudville nine is a group of predominantly Black or mixed race kids who play a pickup game of baseball against a uniformed, perhaps semi-professional team that looks to be passing through. The teens in their baggy jeans and t-shirts are cheered on by folks watching from nearby highrises, as well as hip, tattooed observers on the sidelines. MOrse's style is immediate and dynamic, making this old fashioed poem suddenly fresh and new and relevant to contemporary kids and teens in a whole new way.
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 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Thu 06 Apr 2006 09:11:05 AM CDT
