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[CCBC-Net] those orange biographies

From: Rebecca Shortridge <beckyshortridge>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:30:17 +0000

Are the books of this series on your website part of the Landmark series?


>From: "Florrie Binford Kichler" <fkichler at patriapress.com>
>To: "'Nancy Silverrod'"
><nsilverrod at sfpl.org>,<ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu>
>Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] those orange biographies
>Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 08:18:13 -0400
>
>Hello to all. When I was 8 years old I became ill with rheumatic fever and
>had to stay in bed for three months. This was the 1950's, so there were no
>video games, computers or TV in my room. Reading was my only entertainment.
>One day my Aunt Mary brought me an orange-covered book with the title
>"Amelia Earhart, Kansas Girl." Like some of you have mentioned, I was
>hooked
>on those "orange biographies" (of course we know they weren't biographies
>but historical fiction as has been pointed out). When I recovered and could
>ride my bike to the library I can still remember those orange books lined
>up
>on the shelf in alphabetical order by title. And to this day, I can
>remember
>the plots of some of my favorite ones. Great literature? No, probably not.
>But by providing strong female role models for a little girl growing up in
>the 1950's AND teaching her who Jane Addams, Juliette Low, Nancy Hanks,
>etc.
>were, they certainly affected my life in a positive way.
>
>Which is why, 40 years later, I decided to bring some of them back to life.
>
>Florrie Binford Kichler, Patria Press
>
>Hook Kids on History with the Young Patriots Series of fictional
>biographies.
>Visit http://www.patriapress.com and sign up for monthly notification of
>new
>titles!
>mailto:fkichler at patriapress.com
>317-577-1321
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu
>[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Nancy
>Silverrod
>Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 2:55 PM
>To: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu
>Subject: [CCBC-Net] those orange biographies
>
>I didn't remember the color of them, but I know right where they were on
>my library's shelves, and I read every single one. I know we consider
>them terrible resources today for many reasons, but they led me to a
>life-long love of reading history and biography (and historical
>fiction). Many of today's biographies for children, while factually and
>politically correct, are dull reading. We need to challenge authors and
>publishers to entrance non-fiction readers in the way that fiction can
>entrance.
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>
>Nancy Silverrod, Librarian
>
>San Francisco Public Library
>
>100 Larkin St.
>
>San Francisco, CA 94102
>
>415-557-4417
>
>nsilverrod at sfpl.org
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>Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another
>mind. -James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)
>
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