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From: Susan Kuklin <skuklin1>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:55:59 -0400
THE PEN AMERICAN CENTER: CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT BOOK AUTHORS
Last year, at our monthly meetings, the Children's/Young Adult had interesting discussions about writing truths for children. We decided to open the discussion to the public. Please join us for:
Dreadful Lies/Peculiar Truths
M's aunt told such dreadful lies Matilda in silence rolled her eyes For she, who from her earliest youth Had known her own peculiar truth, Attempted to believe her Auntie she almost lost her youthful sanity
A (shameless) adaptation by Vera B. Williams of a verse from Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Verses for Children.
Thank Vera B. Williams for her playful inversion of Hilaire Belloc's cautionary verse about truth and children. Vera, along with Susan Campbell Bartoletti and Robert Lipsyte, will address the struggle between providing brute facts with the desire to protect young readers. Is there a slippery slope? Susan Kuklin will moderate.
Date: Wednesday, September 19
Time: 7 pm
Place: New York Center for Independent Publishing (formerly the Small Press Center)
20 West 44th Street (between Fifth Ave. and Sixth Ave.)
AND
Visit the committee's website where Fatima Shaik and Cheryl Willis Hudson have posted essays about the subtle, deliberate, accidental forms of racism in children's literature. We invite your comments about these important essays. http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1364
Or, go to www.pen.org <http://www.pen.org/> , Programs, Children's/Young Adult Book Authors, and follow the prompts.
Susan Kuklin and Fran Manushkin
Co chairs
Susan Kuklin
skuklin1 at nyc.rr.com
www.susankuklin.com
Fran Manushkin
<mailto:franm at nyc.rr.com> franm at nyc.rr.com
www.franmanushkin.com
Received on Fri 31 Aug 2007 09:55:59 AM CDT
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:55:59 -0400
THE PEN AMERICAN CENTER: CHILDREN'S/YOUNG ADULT BOOK AUTHORS
Last year, at our monthly meetings, the Children's/Young Adult had interesting discussions about writing truths for children. We decided to open the discussion to the public. Please join us for:
Dreadful Lies/Peculiar Truths
M's aunt told such dreadful lies Matilda in silence rolled her eyes For she, who from her earliest youth Had known her own peculiar truth, Attempted to believe her Auntie she almost lost her youthful sanity
A (shameless) adaptation by Vera B. Williams of a verse from Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Verses for Children.
Thank Vera B. Williams for her playful inversion of Hilaire Belloc's cautionary verse about truth and children. Vera, along with Susan Campbell Bartoletti and Robert Lipsyte, will address the struggle between providing brute facts with the desire to protect young readers. Is there a slippery slope? Susan Kuklin will moderate.
Date: Wednesday, September 19
Time: 7 pm
Place: New York Center for Independent Publishing (formerly the Small Press Center)
20 West 44th Street (between Fifth Ave. and Sixth Ave.)
AND
Visit the committee's website where Fatima Shaik and Cheryl Willis Hudson have posted essays about the subtle, deliberate, accidental forms of racism in children's literature. We invite your comments about these important essays. http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1364
Or, go to www.pen.org <http://www.pen.org/> , Programs, Children's/Young Adult Book Authors, and follow the prompts.
Susan Kuklin and Fran Manushkin
Co chairs
Susan Kuklin
skuklin1 at nyc.rr.com
www.susankuklin.com
Fran Manushkin
<mailto:franm at nyc.rr.com> franm at nyc.rr.com
www.franmanushkin.com
Received on Fri 31 Aug 2007 09:55:59 AM CDT
