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From: Susan Dubin <sdubin>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:43:39 -0700
Newbery's are huge winners at my k-6 private school. Even Story of ManKind is checked out at least twice a year! Dr. Doolittle is very popular, Tales from Silver Lands, Gayneck, Shen of the Sea, and Millions of Cats all are well used.!
Susan Dubin Off-the-Shelf Library Services
----- Original Message ----- From: "Megan Schliesman" <schliesman at education.wisc.edu> To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 10:06 AM Subject: [CCBC-Net] Newbery Redux
> I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the very first winner of
> the Newbery Award, "The Story of Mankind" by Hendrik Willem van Loon, is
> not flying off the shelves of libraries today. Then again, when I look
> in the state of Wisconsin's resource-sharing catalog, I see a number of
> school and public libraries own it, so perhaps there are readers still.
>
> A complete list of Newbery winner and honor books is available on the
> American Library Association web site at:
>
> http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal.htm
>
> I'd be curious to hear from members of the CCBC-Net community regarding
> the oldest book they can find on the list that they've seen children or
> teens today read and enjoy.
>
> And to find out why you think that particular book continues to find an
> audience among contemporary readers?
>
> Megan
>
> --
> Megan Schliesman, Librarian
> Cooperative Children's Book Center
> School of Education
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290
> Madison, WI 53706
>
> 608-262-9503
> 608-262-4933 (fax)
>
> schliesman at education.wisc.edu
>
> www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
>
>
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Received on Fri 07 Sep 2007 10:43:39 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 20:43:39 -0700
Newbery's are huge winners at my k-6 private school. Even Story of ManKind is checked out at least twice a year! Dr. Doolittle is very popular, Tales from Silver Lands, Gayneck, Shen of the Sea, and Millions of Cats all are well used.!
Susan Dubin Off-the-Shelf Library Services
----- Original Message ----- From: "Megan Schliesman" <schliesman at education.wisc.edu> To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 10:06 AM Subject: [CCBC-Net] Newbery Redux
> I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the very first winner of
> the Newbery Award, "The Story of Mankind" by Hendrik Willem van Loon, is
> not flying off the shelves of libraries today. Then again, when I look
> in the state of Wisconsin's resource-sharing catalog, I see a number of
> school and public libraries own it, so perhaps there are readers still.
>
> A complete list of Newbery winner and honor books is available on the
> American Library Association web site at:
>
> http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal.htm
>
> I'd be curious to hear from members of the CCBC-Net community regarding
> the oldest book they can find on the list that they've seen children or
> teens today read and enjoy.
>
> And to find out why you think that particular book continues to find an
> audience among contemporary readers?
>
> Megan
>
> --
> Megan Schliesman, Librarian
> Cooperative Children's Book Center
> School of Education
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290
> Madison, WI 53706
>
> 608-262-9503
> 608-262-4933 (fax)
>
> schliesman at education.wisc.edu
>
> www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
>
>
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