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From: blubaughp at eisenhowerpld.org <blubaughp>
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:15:06 -0500 (CDT)
>The Penderwicks was so much like Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright.
Penny Blubaugh blubaughp at eisenhowerpld.org Eisenhower Public Library
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Endless Summer (Megan Schliesman)
> 2. Endless Summer/Penderwicks (Julie Ranelli)
> 3. Susan's Special Summer (Susan Kusel)
> 4. Re: Susan's Special Summer (Susan Kusel)
> 5. Summer Reading: The Raft (Julie Corsaro)
> 6. Jennifer Williams/Trade/hmco is out of the office.
> (Jennifer_Williams at hmco.com)
>
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:55:49 -0500
> From: "Megan Schliesman" <Schliesman at education.wisc.edu>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Endless Summer
> To: "Subscribers of ccbc-net" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu>
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> Julie Schumacher's novel "Grass Angel" (Delacorte, 2004) is one that
> comes to mind for me when I think of summer. While it is (I believe) a
> contemporary story, in my mind it is set in the 1970s because of so
> perfectly echoing that restless, directionless feel of summer back then
> (at least for me).
>
> That makes me wonder how and if summer has changed for kids over the
> years, and how and if those changes are reflected in literature. I
> think of summer as a time when less structure (at least for some kids)
> can mean more possibilities--for contemplation, connection, adventure
> (thinking of Lynne Rae Perkins's "Criss Cross"), but also for challenges
> that may be beyond them. To that end, Sharon G. Flake's novel "Bang"
> just jumped into my mind, for example, and that harrowing journey the
> two boys must make after Mann's father abandons them on a camping trip.
> And perhaps in part becuase it is summer when the story opens, Mann has
> a lot of free time to dwell on the negative things happening in his
> family and community, and there is nowhere for him to turn.
>
> 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/
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:09:54 -0400
> From: Julie Ranelli <jranelli at quan.lib.md.us>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Endless Summer/Penderwicks
> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu
> Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20060706160232.01c04e98 at quan.lib.md.us>
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> I really enjoyed Birdsall's The Penderwicks, which takes place during
> the family's summer vacation. At least one review that I read said it
> hearkened back to books of an earlier era. And I know that as a kid I
> was reading some of those same books! How I wish that as a child I
> had kept the kind of reading journal that I now have--I'd love to be
> able to remember what I read and what I thought of it at the time!
>
> Does The Penderwicks bring to mind any other "endless summer" books
> for you? I think of The Five Little Peppers, The Boxcar Children,
> maybe Eight Cousins and some others but cannot say whether they were
> actually set in summer, or whether I simply associate them with
> summertime because that was when I had time to read endlessly myself!
>
> Julie
>
>
> Julie Ranelli
> Children's/Young Adult Librarian
> Queen Anne's County Free Library
> Kent Island Branch
> Stevensville, MD
> jranelli at quan.lib.md.us
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:37:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Susan's Special Summer
> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Message-ID: <20060707003714.97224.qmail at web31806.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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>
> One of my very favorite summer books is "Susan's Special Summer" by
> Kathleen Voute. It was the first book I was able to read all by myself.
> Since my name is Susan, it was even more special because it felt like it
> was written just for me. It's about a girl who goes with her family to a
> summer cottage, to enjoy the summer before her baby brother is born.
> It's been out of print for years... it was published in 1954 by
> Abingdon-Cokesbury Press and was handed down to me by my mother who
> read it when she was in elementary school. I've asked librarians and
> other book people about it, but no one except for my mother and I
> seems to have heard of it. I kept meaning to post this during the
> childhood books discussion, but since it is also relevant to summer
> books, I'm glad for an opportunity to post it now.
> So, has anyone out there ever heard of Susan's Special Summer?
> -Susan Kusel
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:46:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Susan's Special Summer
> To: Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com>,
> ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Message-ID: <20060707004659.23172.qmail at web31811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Sorry for the author error in my previous message. Susan's Special Summer
> was written by Joyce Boyle and illustrated by Kathleen Voute.
> -Susan
>
> Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> One of my very favorite summer books is "Susan's Special Summer" by
> Kathleen Voute. It was the first book I was able to read all by myself.
> Since my name is Susan, it was even more special because it felt like it
> was written just for me. It's about a girl who goes with her family to a
> summer cottage, to enjoy the summer before her baby brother is born.
> It's been out of print for years... it was published in 1954 by
> Abingdon-Cokesbury Press and was handed down to me by my mother who read
> it when she was in elementary school. I've asked librarians and other book
> people about it, but no one except for my mother and I seems to have heard
> of it. I kept meaning to post this during the childhood books discussion,
> but since it is also relevant to summer books, I'm glad for an opportunity
> to post it now.
> So, has anyone out there ever heard of Susan's Special Summer?
> -Susan Kusel
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:06:33 -0400
> From: "Julie Corsaro" <juliecorsaro2 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Summer Reading: The Raft
> To: susankusel at yahoo.com, ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Message-ID: <BAY115-F296FAF27DBC05C6BA7AE78F3740 at phx.gbl>
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> A lovely picture book that I have used with 8-10 year old students at the
> end of the school year is The Raft, written and illustrated by Jim
> LaMarche.
> It's about a boy--Nicky--who reluctantly goes to spend the summer with his
> artistic grandmother, a "river rat." After Nicky discovers a raft with
> pictures of animals on it, his curiousity is piqued and he begins to
> explore
> the flora and fauna of the woods and the water. Together with the text,
> the
> artwork is evocative, and always puts me in the mood for reflective summer
> days.
>
> Julie Corsaro
>
>
>
>>From: Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com>
>>To: Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com>,ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
>>Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Susan's Special Summer
>>Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:46:59 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>Sorry for the author error in my previous message. Susan's Special Summer
>>was written by Joyce Boyle and illustrated by Kathleen Voute.
>> -Susan
>>
>>Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> One of my very favorite summer books is "Susan's Special Summer" by
>>Kathleen Voute. It was the first book I was able to read all by myself.
>>Since my name is Susan, it was even more special because it felt like it
>>was written just for me. It's about a girl who goes with her family to a
>>summer cottage, to enjoy the summer before her baby brother is born.
>>It's been out of print for years... it was published in 1954 by
>>Abingdon-Cokesbury Press and was handed down to me by my mother who read
>> it
>>when she was in elementary school. I've asked librarians and other book
>>people about it, but no one except for my mother and I seems to have
>> heard
>>of it. I kept meaning to post this during the childhood books discussion,
>>but since it is also relevant to summer books, I'm glad for an
>> opportunity
>>to post it now.
>>So, has anyone out there ever heard of Susan's Special Summer?
>>-Susan Kusel
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>CCBC-Net mailing list
>>CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
>>Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:00:15 -0400
> From: Jennifer_Williams at hmco.com
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Jennifer Williams/Trade/hmco is out of the office.
> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
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> I will be out of the office starting 07/05/2006 and will not return until
> 07/11/2006.
>
> Please e-mail Kali_Downer at hmco.com (or call at 617-351-5922) with any
> questions that need attention before I return.
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Received on Fri 07 Jul 2006 12:15:06 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:15:06 -0500 (CDT)
>The Penderwicks was so much like Gone Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright.
Penny Blubaugh blubaughp at eisenhowerpld.org Eisenhower Public Library
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Endless Summer (Megan Schliesman)
> 2. Endless Summer/Penderwicks (Julie Ranelli)
> 3. Susan's Special Summer (Susan Kusel)
> 4. Re: Susan's Special Summer (Susan Kusel)
> 5. Summer Reading: The Raft (Julie Corsaro)
> 6. Jennifer Williams/Trade/hmco is out of the office.
> (Jennifer_Williams at hmco.com)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:55:49 -0500
> From: "Megan Schliesman" <Schliesman at education.wisc.edu>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Endless Summer
> To: "Subscribers of ccbc-net" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu>
> Message-ID: <44AD247502000055000034C8 at pop.education.wisc.edu>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> Julie Schumacher's novel "Grass Angel" (Delacorte, 2004) is one that
> comes to mind for me when I think of summer. While it is (I believe) a
> contemporary story, in my mind it is set in the 1970s because of so
> perfectly echoing that restless, directionless feel of summer back then
> (at least for me).
>
> That makes me wonder how and if summer has changed for kids over the
> years, and how and if those changes are reflected in literature. I
> think of summer as a time when less structure (at least for some kids)
> can mean more possibilities--for contemplation, connection, adventure
> (thinking of Lynne Rae Perkins's "Criss Cross"), but also for challenges
> that may be beyond them. To that end, Sharon G. Flake's novel "Bang"
> just jumped into my mind, for example, and that harrowing journey the
> two boys must make after Mann's father abandons them on a camping trip.
> And perhaps in part becuase it is summer when the story opens, Mann has
> a lot of free time to dwell on the negative things happening in his
> family and community, and there is nowhere for him to turn.
>
> 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/
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:09:54 -0400
> From: Julie Ranelli <jranelli at quan.lib.md.us>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Endless Summer/Penderwicks
> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu
> Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20060706160232.01c04e98 at quan.lib.md.us>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
> I really enjoyed Birdsall's The Penderwicks, which takes place during
> the family's summer vacation. At least one review that I read said it
> hearkened back to books of an earlier era. And I know that as a kid I
> was reading some of those same books! How I wish that as a child I
> had kept the kind of reading journal that I now have--I'd love to be
> able to remember what I read and what I thought of it at the time!
>
> Does The Penderwicks bring to mind any other "endless summer" books
> for you? I think of The Five Little Peppers, The Boxcar Children,
> maybe Eight Cousins and some others but cannot say whether they were
> actually set in summer, or whether I simply associate them with
> summertime because that was when I had time to read endlessly myself!
>
> Julie
>
>
> Julie Ranelli
> Children's/Young Adult Librarian
> Queen Anne's County Free Library
> Kent Island Branch
> Stevensville, MD
> jranelli at quan.lib.md.us
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:37:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Susan's Special Summer
> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Message-ID: <20060707003714.97224.qmail at web31806.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> One of my very favorite summer books is "Susan's Special Summer" by
> Kathleen Voute. It was the first book I was able to read all by myself.
> Since my name is Susan, it was even more special because it felt like it
> was written just for me. It's about a girl who goes with her family to a
> summer cottage, to enjoy the summer before her baby brother is born.
> It's been out of print for years... it was published in 1954 by
> Abingdon-Cokesbury Press and was handed down to me by my mother who
> read it when she was in elementary school. I've asked librarians and
> other book people about it, but no one except for my mother and I
> seems to have heard of it. I kept meaning to post this during the
> childhood books discussion, but since it is also relevant to summer
> books, I'm glad for an opportunity to post it now.
> So, has anyone out there ever heard of Susan's Special Summer?
> -Susan Kusel
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:46:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Susan's Special Summer
> To: Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com>,
> ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Message-ID: <20060707004659.23172.qmail at web31811.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Sorry for the author error in my previous message. Susan's Special Summer
> was written by Joyce Boyle and illustrated by Kathleen Voute.
> -Susan
>
> Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> One of my very favorite summer books is "Susan's Special Summer" by
> Kathleen Voute. It was the first book I was able to read all by myself.
> Since my name is Susan, it was even more special because it felt like it
> was written just for me. It's about a girl who goes with her family to a
> summer cottage, to enjoy the summer before her baby brother is born.
> It's been out of print for years... it was published in 1954 by
> Abingdon-Cokesbury Press and was handed down to me by my mother who read
> it when she was in elementary school. I've asked librarians and other book
> people about it, but no one except for my mother and I seems to have heard
> of it. I kept meaning to post this during the childhood books discussion,
> but since it is also relevant to summer books, I'm glad for an opportunity
> to post it now.
> So, has anyone out there ever heard of Susan's Special Summer?
> -Susan Kusel
>
> _______________________________________________
> CCBC-Net mailing list
> CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
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>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:06:33 -0400
> From: "Julie Corsaro" <juliecorsaro2 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Summer Reading: The Raft
> To: susankusel at yahoo.com, ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Message-ID: <BAY115-F296FAF27DBC05C6BA7AE78F3740 at phx.gbl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
>
> A lovely picture book that I have used with 8-10 year old students at the
> end of the school year is The Raft, written and illustrated by Jim
> LaMarche.
> It's about a boy--Nicky--who reluctantly goes to spend the summer with his
> artistic grandmother, a "river rat." After Nicky discovers a raft with
> pictures of animals on it, his curiousity is piqued and he begins to
> explore
> the flora and fauna of the woods and the water. Together with the text,
> the
> artwork is evocative, and always puts me in the mood for reflective summer
> days.
>
> Julie Corsaro
>
>
>
>>From: Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com>
>>To: Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com>,ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
>>Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Susan's Special Summer
>>Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 17:46:59 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>Sorry for the author error in my previous message. Susan's Special Summer
>>was written by Joyce Boyle and illustrated by Kathleen Voute.
>> -Susan
>>
>>Susan Kusel <susankusel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> One of my very favorite summer books is "Susan's Special Summer" by
>>Kathleen Voute. It was the first book I was able to read all by myself.
>>Since my name is Susan, it was even more special because it felt like it
>>was written just for me. It's about a girl who goes with her family to a
>>summer cottage, to enjoy the summer before her baby brother is born.
>>It's been out of print for years... it was published in 1954 by
>>Abingdon-Cokesbury Press and was handed down to me by my mother who read
>> it
>>when she was in elementary school. I've asked librarians and other book
>>people about it, but no one except for my mother and I seems to have
>> heard
>>of it. I kept meaning to post this during the childhood books discussion,
>>but since it is also relevant to summer books, I'm glad for an
>> opportunity
>>to post it now.
>>So, has anyone out there ever heard of Susan's Special Summer?
>>-Susan Kusel
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>CCBC-Net mailing list
>>CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
>>Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 12:00:15 -0400
> From: Jennifer_Williams at hmco.com
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Jennifer Williams/Trade/hmco is out of the office.
> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
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> I will be out of the office starting 07/05/2006 and will not return until
> 07/11/2006.
>
> Please e-mail Kali_Downer at hmco.com (or call at 617-351-5922) with any
> questions that need attention before I return.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
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