From: Mayra <mayra>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:47:22 -0500

If new illustrations to picture books fall into this category, then I must mention the somewhat new illustration of Four Fur Feet by Margaret Wise Brown. The old Remy Charlip illustrations, where you never saw the creature, play wonderfully with the words of the poem. I remember the kids asking "But what is it, but what is it?" while I responded, "What do you think it is?" Not so in the 'new' version, where the entire body of a yellow cat (tiger?) is seen. Sometimes, the original is just so much better.

mayra in milwaukee

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[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of James Elliott Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:35 PM To: schliesman at education.wisc.edu; ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Old Stories, New Forms

I don't mind new forms of old favorites. It's nice when they work, however, and disappointing whenthey don't. For example, I don't mind board books of great caledcot books, but it is aggrivating when using, say, Brown Bear for a story time, and finding out the grey elephant is missing (come to think of it, he's been missing from MOST versions of the story).

I remember with fondness reading comic book versions of the great classics
(Classic Illustrated Comics), and then later finding the books easier to

read because I had some familiarity with the story and characters.

Down sides: 'easy reading' versions that in effect chop the original to pieces and just serve to mangle the story into 'bit sized bits'. (Think Danny DeVito's version of "Thow mama from the train" at the end of the movie, where he took the adventure and made it into a pop-up book, totally sanitized, where the train ride ends in a picnic.)

Just my two cents. I might add to this later (I'm on a break at work).

Jim Elliott Reference/Cataloging Librarian Gadsden County (FL) Public Library


>From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman at education.wisc.edu>
>To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu>
>Subject: [CCBC-Net] Old Stories, New Forms
>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:00:28 -0500
>
>Thank you to all who shared some of their favorite summer stories in
the
>first part of July.
>
>It's time to turn our attention to the topic for the second part of the
>month:
>
>**Old Stories, New Forms: It's always intriguing, and sometimes
>disturbing, to see how books are reconfigured and repakcaged to reach a
>new audience. Remember the /Little House/ board books and easy chapter
>books? /The Chronicles of Narnia/ picture books? Have you seen the
>graphic novel versions of /The Babysitters Club/, or /The Hardy Boys/
>and /Nancy Drew/? What are your thoughts on board book editions of
>Caldecott winners or other previously issued picture books?
>
>What are examples of reissues or repackaging or new approaches to a
>story or book that you have appreicated? And what are examples that
>you wish just never were?
>
>Megan
>
>--
>Megan Schliesman, Librarian
>Cooperative Children's Book Center
>School of Education, UW-Madison
>600 N. Park St., Room 4290
>Madison, WI 53706
>
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>fax: 608-262-4933
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