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[CCBC-Net] Lucky

From: James Elliott <j_c_elliott>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:46:29 -0500

Not to be too flippant, but I can give her an opening line:

A funny thing happend on the way to the Newbery Awards this year.....

But, you are right. To be honored in this way and then - bam!


>From: Leda Schubert <bobr at vtlink.net>
>To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
>Subject: [CCBC-Net] Lucky
>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:04:35 -0500
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> I feel terrible for Susan Patron. Most writers don't even allow
>themselves to dream of a Newbery or Caldecott. And here is Ms. Patron, a
>children's librarian and dedicated writer, receiving the ultimate award her
>own profession can bestow. Along comes this tempest in a teapot. I know
>some of you might feel that the sales generated by controversy more than
>compensate, but I don't believe it for one second. Every bit of her heart
>is in that book (I don't know her and have never met her, so I'm guessing,
>but it's surely a heartfelt book), and I believe that instead of the joy
>she should be experiencing, she must be in despair.
>
>Should be an interesting Newbery speech this year.
>
>leda, who gets the digest, and apologizes for cross-posting (with
>Child_Lit)
>www.ledaschubert.com
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Received on Tue 20 Feb 2007 09:46:29 AM CST