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From: Carol E. Jones <CEJones>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:40:45 -0400
I just read "Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led her People to Freedom" by Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. It is part story, part prayer, part poetry and it is so very moving. The illustrations are very effective and beautiful as well. Somehow, it is through the books' simplicity, that the complexity of Harriet's trials are so well-expressed. I think this would be a wonderful picture book to use with older readers.
Carol Elizabeth Jones Rockbridge Regional Library 138 South Main Street Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 463-4324 ext. 110
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1. Re: middle grade picture books (Steven Engelfried)
2. Picture books and future teachers (fondrie at gmail.com)
3. Re: middle grade picture books (Tracy L. Hubbard)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:23:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Steven Engelfried <sengelfried at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] middle grade picture books To: CCBC-Net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <20060920232307.83384.qmail at web50807.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
I don't know if there's more interest in the visual world than words today (as Norma Jean asks), but I do think authors, illustrators, and publishers have been able to use visuals more effectively in books since the early 80's. Maybe it's as simple as improved technology and affordable costs opening up the visual possibilities? I feel that informational books with strong visuals generally promote literacy and reading, rather than discouraging it. I especially like the way illustrated books can cut past the limits of print on its own. Good illustrations can reinforce content from the words so that readers struggling with some vocabulary can still make sense of it all. And illustrations can also inspire the interest that can lead a reader to tackle a book with a challenging reading level. "Leonardo's Horse" is a very well written book, with words (by Jean Fritz) that could stand on their own, but Hudson Talbott's illustrations enhance the content and certainly draw some
readers who might have passed on a less visually appealing book. And though the pictures are attractive on their own, most everyone who sees them will want to read the words and learn more...
Norma Jean <nsawicki at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
Prior to the 80s, it was nearly impossible to successfully publish picture books for middle grade/older kids, the feeling being the audience considered them ?baby books.? Now that is much changed and I wonder why. Computers? More interest in the visual world than words? An increasing problem with reading and literacy?
Steven Engelfried Multnomah County Library 205 NE Russell Street Portland, OR 97212-3796 503-988-5206 stevene at yahoo.com
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:18:19 -0500 From: fondrie at gmail.com Subject: [CCBC-Net] Picture books and future teachers To: CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Message-ID:
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Each semester, I present picture books for the upper grades to preservice teachers from all content areas in a Middle School Education course, and the two texts that cause the greatest stir are The Middle Passage (Tom Feelings) and It's Perfectly Normal! (Robie Harris, ill. by Michael Emberly).
Although students agree that the books are stunning and contain critical information, most of them consider the books either too controversial or too mature for classroom use. I'd be interested to hear from others who have used either book with secondary students.
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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:33:43 -0500 (CDT) From: "Tracy L. Hubbard" <tlhubbar at uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] middle grade picture books To: CCBC-Net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <20060920203343.ADD56508 at expms3.cites.uiuc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I may be naive, but I think there is an interest (I'm not sure I would say empahsis yet) on picture books for older children, because there is a realization of how wonderful they are. Many factors have contributed to it, but I believe the realization that the pictures have real value to them is a contributor. There is also a greater understanding of how not all learners are the same and therefore the need to have books that will appeal to manners of senses and intelligence. A very visual learner can be so much more successful with the assistance of pictures. And last but not least the picture books themselves have become much more complicated and appealing to an older audience.
I don't remember something that evokes the feelings of a place as much as Walter Dean Myer's Harlem: A Poem, or the presentation of complicated ideas and philosophies in Jon Muth's Zen Shorts. In a world that can use as many critical thinkers as possible these are just 2 Iexamples of the value of picture book.
Tracy Tracy Hubbard Learning Center Director Indian Trail School Highland Park, IL
CAS Student GSLIS/UIUC tlhubbar at uiuc.edu
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Received on Fri 22 Sep 2006 07:40:45 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:40:45 -0400
I just read "Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led her People to Freedom" by Carole Boston Weatherford, Illustrated by Kadir Nelson. It is part story, part prayer, part poetry and it is so very moving. The illustrations are very effective and beautiful as well. Somehow, it is through the books' simplicity, that the complexity of Harriet's trials are so well-expressed. I think this would be a wonderful picture book to use with older readers.
Carol Elizabeth Jones Rockbridge Regional Library 138 South Main Street Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 463-4324 ext. 110
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: middle grade picture books (Steven Engelfried)
2. Picture books and future teachers (fondrie at gmail.com)
3. Re: middle grade picture books (Tracy L. Hubbard)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:23:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Steven Engelfried <sengelfried at yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] middle grade picture books To: CCBC-Net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <20060920232307.83384.qmail at web50807.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
I don't know if there's more interest in the visual world than words today (as Norma Jean asks), but I do think authors, illustrators, and publishers have been able to use visuals more effectively in books since the early 80's. Maybe it's as simple as improved technology and affordable costs opening up the visual possibilities? I feel that informational books with strong visuals generally promote literacy and reading, rather than discouraging it. I especially like the way illustrated books can cut past the limits of print on its own. Good illustrations can reinforce content from the words so that readers struggling with some vocabulary can still make sense of it all. And illustrations can also inspire the interest that can lead a reader to tackle a book with a challenging reading level. "Leonardo's Horse" is a very well written book, with words (by Jean Fritz) that could stand on their own, but Hudson Talbott's illustrations enhance the content and certainly draw some
readers who might have passed on a less visually appealing book. And though the pictures are attractive on their own, most everyone who sees them will want to read the words and learn more...
Norma Jean <nsawicki at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
Prior to the 80s, it was nearly impossible to successfully publish picture books for middle grade/older kids, the feeling being the audience considered them ?baby books.? Now that is much changed and I wonder why. Computers? More interest in the visual world than words? An increasing problem with reading and literacy?
Steven Engelfried Multnomah County Library 205 NE Russell Street Portland, OR 97212-3796 503-988-5206 stevene at yahoo.com
--------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1?/min.
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:18:19 -0500 From: fondrie at gmail.com Subject: [CCBC-Net] Picture books and future teachers To: CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Message-ID:
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Each semester, I present picture books for the upper grades to preservice teachers from all content areas in a Middle School Education course, and the two texts that cause the greatest stir are The Middle Passage (Tom Feelings) and It's Perfectly Normal! (Robie Harris, ill. by Michael Emberly).
Although students agree that the books are stunning and contain critical information, most of them consider the books either too controversial or too mature for classroom use. I'd be interested to hear from others who have used either book with secondary students.
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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:33:43 -0500 (CDT) From: "Tracy L. Hubbard" <tlhubbar at uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] middle grade picture books To: CCBC-Net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <20060920203343.ADD56508 at expms3.cites.uiuc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I may be naive, but I think there is an interest (I'm not sure I would say empahsis yet) on picture books for older children, because there is a realization of how wonderful they are. Many factors have contributed to it, but I believe the realization that the pictures have real value to them is a contributor. There is also a greater understanding of how not all learners are the same and therefore the need to have books that will appeal to manners of senses and intelligence. A very visual learner can be so much more successful with the assistance of pictures. And last but not least the picture books themselves have become much more complicated and appealing to an older audience.
I don't remember something that evokes the feelings of a place as much as Walter Dean Myer's Harlem: A Poem, or the presentation of complicated ideas and philosophies in Jon Muth's Zen Shorts. In a world that can use as many critical thinkers as possible these are just 2 Iexamples of the value of picture book.
Tracy Tracy Hubbard Learning Center Director Indian Trail School Highland Park, IL
CAS Student GSLIS/UIUC tlhubbar at uiuc.edu
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