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From: Ellen Greever <greever>
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 11:12:12 -0500
There's one other significant difference (unless they've changed since they first started being re-issued). They don't have the useful back matter the originals did. I remember particularly appreciating the time lines that showed what else was happening while the person was alive. There was also usually a bibliography and glossary. Less useful were dopey comprehension questions. Ellen Greever UW-Milwaukee
(an avid reader of them in 3rd grade who felt cheated when I found out in library school that they were fiction)
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From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu on behalf of Jeanatkins at aol.com Sent: Sat 6/3/2006 6:58 AM To: Kbshepler at aol.com; ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Childhood of Famous American series (BookswithOrangeCovers)
Hi, Kathy,
Someone may give you a less anecdotal answer, but my impression is that while the text is much the same,they carry an innocence that keeps them from having the punch for today's readers that they did for those of us who loved them, for more than their worn canvas scent, in the fifties and sixties. What remains, though, is the feeling that these were kids just like them, a delightful message.
Jeannine
Jeannine Atkins www.JeannineAtkins.com How High Can We Climb? The Story of Women Explorers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005)
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Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 11:12:12 -0500
There's one other significant difference (unless they've changed since they first started being re-issued). They don't have the useful back matter the originals did. I remember particularly appreciating the time lines that showed what else was happening while the person was alive. There was also usually a bibliography and glossary. Less useful were dopey comprehension questions. Ellen Greever UW-Milwaukee
(an avid reader of them in 3rd grade who felt cheated when I found out in library school that they were fiction)
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From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu on behalf of Jeanatkins at aol.com Sent: Sat 6/3/2006 6:58 AM To: Kbshepler at aol.com; ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Childhood of Famous American series (BookswithOrangeCovers)
Hi, Kathy,
Someone may give you a less anecdotal answer, but my impression is that while the text is much the same,they carry an innocence that keeps them from having the punch for today's readers that they did for those of us who loved them, for more than their worn canvas scent, in the fifties and sixties. What remains, though, is the feeling that these were kids just like them, a delightful message.
Jeannine
Jeannine Atkins www.JeannineAtkins.com How High Can We Climb? The Story of Women Explorers (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005)
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