From: Pamela Turner <pstrst>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 07:35:32 -0800

Regarding TEAM MOON, I enjoyed the book very much--great visuals, lots of fascinating behind-the-scenes details. I did think the text was written at a surprisingly high level. Those of you who are librarians, how did kids react to that? Was that a stumbling block at all?

Pam Turner
----- Original Message ----- From: <4joyces at mchsi.com> To: "Megan Schliesman" <schliesman at education.wisc.edu> Cc: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:19 AM Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] 2007 Sibert Award


>I thoroughly enjoyed both TEAM MOON and QUEST FOR THE TREE KANGAROO.
>
> TEAM MOON is winningly told, involving so many of the people behind the
> scenes--with quotes from their very lips--that I finally had a sense of
> what a
> tremendous undertaking the moon launch was, involving so many people, with
> so
> many chances for failure. And the dramatic black pages plunge the reader
> into
> contemplation of that vast void into which these travelers journeyed.
>
> In another kind of journey, Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop give us a
> wonderful
> sense of life in the villages where the TREE KANGAROOS are found. I
> consistently love the books of this writer-photographer pair, who always
> explore
> such interesting mysteries and find such fascinating people to learn from.
>
> These books demonstrate how the best current nonfiction is a far cry from
> the
> dry science texts I grew up with.
>
> Joyce Sidman
>
>
>> We thank you for your many announcements and continued discussion of ALA
>> award books.
>>
>> Today we are scheduled to begin discussion of the 2007 Sibert Award
>> winner and honor books:
>>
>> Winner:
>>
>> Team Moon : How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine
>> Thimmesh (Houghton Mifflin)
>>
>> Honor Books:
>>
>> Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil
>> Rights Movement by Ann Bausum (National Geographic)
>>
>> Quest for the Tree Kangaroo An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New
>> Guinea by Sy Montgomery. Photos by Nic Bishop. (Houghton)
>>
>> To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel. Ill.by
>> Mark Siegel. (A Richard Jackson Book / Simon & Schuster)
>>
>>
>> These are four very different books that really show a range of what
>> excellence in non-fiction publishing can be.
>>
>> What are your thoughts about this year's Sibert titles?
>>
>> 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
>>
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