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From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:06:40 -0500
Seems timely that Daniel Pennac's book, BETTER THAN LIFE, is being reissued in a new translation by Walker Books in the UK as THE RIGHTS OF THE READER. For reluctant and struggling readers, it can be an enormous relief to know that it is okay to quit, okay not to read
(sometimes:), okay to skip, and so on.
I have a really old edition published in Canada I think, but there is a more recent one available since 1999 from Stenhouse Publishers in the US.
(http://www.stenhouse.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idProduct=317) The new UK translation looks nifty (especially with those Quentin Blake illustrations), but even the older one is very worthwhile.
(Both Roger Sutton and I have written about this independently of each other recently on our blogs.)
Monica
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:06:40 -0500
Seems timely that Daniel Pennac's book, BETTER THAN LIFE, is being reissued in a new translation by Walker Books in the UK as THE RIGHTS OF THE READER. For reluctant and struggling readers, it can be an enormous relief to know that it is okay to quit, okay not to read
(sometimes:), okay to skip, and so on.
I have a really old edition published in Canada I think, but there is a more recent one available since 1999 from Stenhouse Publishers in the US.
(http://www.stenhouse.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idProduct=317) The new UK translation looks nifty (especially with those Quentin Blake illustrations), but even the older one is very worthwhile.
(Both Roger Sutton and I have written about this independently of each other recently on our blogs.)
Monica
-- Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY monicaedinger at gmail.com http://medinger.wordpress.comReceived on Fri 03 Nov 2006 08:06:40 AM CST
