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From: James Elliott <libraryjim>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:06:01 -0400 (EDT)
Miriam,
That's a very good point! Very often the books my son's teachers assign him are definately NOT the books he would chose to read (and he is a reader).
Right now, his class is reading "the Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, a Newbery honor book. He finds it -- well, to put it plainly -- dull!
I read it this weekend, to see if I could help him along, and I have to admit, up until about page 105, it IS terribly dull for a boy. There is very little in those first hundred pages to capture a boys interest. However, once the girls agree to allow the two boys into the game, it starts to pick up, but my goodness, if one had to base it on the first half of the book, I can easily see most readers giving up on it.
Jim Elliott Tallahassee, Fl.
----- Original Message ----- From: Miriam Lang Budin <miriammeister at gmail.com> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:10:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [CCBC-Net] Circulating Newbery winners
I think it's interesting to differentiate between the Newbery winners kids choose to read and the ones their parents choose to read to them and--different yet--the ones their teachers assign.
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:06:01 -0400 (EDT)
Miriam,
That's a very good point! Very often the books my son's teachers assign him are definately NOT the books he would chose to read (and he is a reader).
Right now, his class is reading "the Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder, a Newbery honor book. He finds it -- well, to put it plainly -- dull!
I read it this weekend, to see if I could help him along, and I have to admit, up until about page 105, it IS terribly dull for a boy. There is very little in those first hundred pages to capture a boys interest. However, once the girls agree to allow the two boys into the game, it starts to pick up, but my goodness, if one had to base it on the first half of the book, I can easily see most readers giving up on it.
Jim Elliott Tallahassee, Fl.
----- Original Message ----- From: Miriam Lang Budin <miriammeister at gmail.com> To: ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 20:10:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [CCBC-Net] Circulating Newbery winners
I think it's interesting to differentiate between the Newbery winners kids choose to read and the ones their parents choose to read to them and--different yet--the ones their teachers assign.
-- Miriam Lang Budin Chappaqua Library, NY _______________________________________________ CCBC-Net mailing list CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe... http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-netReceived on Sun 09 Sep 2007 11:06:01 AM CDT
