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From: Hendon, Alison <A.Hendon>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:44:06 -0500
This retro discussion actually came up in a small meeting yesterday. One of the things that concerns us with truly retro books (books being brought back from the 50s and 60s - are these retro or are they just old?) is the lack of diversity, like all the firefighters who are men with pink faces.
Alison
Alison Hendon Youth Selection Team Leader Brooklyn Public Library a.hendon at brooklynpubliclibrary.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> [mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf
> Of Megan Schliesman
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 3:20 PM
> To: ccbc-net, Subscribers of
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Old Is New Again
>
> We recently put up a display at the CCBC to highlight the
> "retro" themes and style appearing in a number of new books
> for children and teens.
>
> A photo of part of the display is available on the CCBC-Net "Topics"
> page on our web site at:
>
> http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ccbcnet/topics.asp
>
> (For those of you who click on the link to look, I know you
> won't be able to decipher the captions. In brief, three of
> the five books pictured were published in 2006 or 2007. The
> far right book on each shelf --including interior shown on
> the bottom--was published in the 1930s.)
>
> Browsing "The Daring Book for Girls" by Andrea J. Buchanan
> and Miriam Preskowitz (published in the U.S. by HarperCollins
> in 2007) I can't deny the fascination at the compendium of
> information compiled. There is seemingly no rhyme or reason
> to it, which makes it downright funny.
> Whether or not that is tne intent, it's what I take away as
> an adult reader. Browsing the table of contents my librarian
> heart shudders as the text jumps from "How to change a tire"
> (p.244) to "Make Your Own Quill Pen" (p. 245). (My favorite
> is the ever-logical leap from "Making a Willow Whistle" on p.
> 86 to "The Periodic Table of Elements" on p.
> 87). Also as an adult reader, I find the nostalgic look and
> feel takes me back to old books passed down to me in
> childhood, not to mention my old girl scout manual (how o
> make a "Sit-Upon," p. 119). There are even "Daring Book"
> badges at the back of the volume; ironically available for
> printing on their web site.
>
> Often when evaluating books for children and teens the issue
> of nostalgia or adult sensibility will come up--is something
> true to a child's sense of the world or is an author
> projecting adult understanding or nostalgia on characters or
> readers? Here are books that are overtly nostalgic in look
> and feel--what do today's children and teens make of them?
>
> Megan
>
> --
> Megan Schliesman, Librarian
> Cooperative Children's Book Center
> School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
>
> 608/262-9503
> schliesman at education.wisc.edu
>
> www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
>
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Received on Fri 22 Feb 2008 02:44:06 PM CST
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:44:06 -0500
This retro discussion actually came up in a small meeting yesterday. One of the things that concerns us with truly retro books (books being brought back from the 50s and 60s - are these retro or are they just old?) is the lack of diversity, like all the firefighters who are men with pink faces.
Alison
Alison Hendon Youth Selection Team Leader Brooklyn Public Library a.hendon at brooklynpubliclibrary.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> [mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf
> Of Megan Schliesman
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 3:20 PM
> To: ccbc-net, Subscribers of
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Old Is New Again
>
> We recently put up a display at the CCBC to highlight the
> "retro" themes and style appearing in a number of new books
> for children and teens.
>
> A photo of part of the display is available on the CCBC-Net "Topics"
> page on our web site at:
>
> http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ccbcnet/topics.asp
>
> (For those of you who click on the link to look, I know you
> won't be able to decipher the captions. In brief, three of
> the five books pictured were published in 2006 or 2007. The
> far right book on each shelf --including interior shown on
> the bottom--was published in the 1930s.)
>
> Browsing "The Daring Book for Girls" by Andrea J. Buchanan
> and Miriam Preskowitz (published in the U.S. by HarperCollins
> in 2007) I can't deny the fascination at the compendium of
> information compiled. There is seemingly no rhyme or reason
> to it, which makes it downright funny.
> Whether or not that is tne intent, it's what I take away as
> an adult reader. Browsing the table of contents my librarian
> heart shudders as the text jumps from "How to change a tire"
> (p.244) to "Make Your Own Quill Pen" (p. 245). (My favorite
> is the ever-logical leap from "Making a Willow Whistle" on p.
> 86 to "The Periodic Table of Elements" on p.
> 87). Also as an adult reader, I find the nostalgic look and
> feel takes me back to old books passed down to me in
> childhood, not to mention my old girl scout manual (how o
> make a "Sit-Upon," p. 119). There are even "Daring Book"
> badges at the back of the volume; ironically available for
> printing on their web site.
>
> Often when evaluating books for children and teens the issue
> of nostalgia or adult sensibility will come up--is something
> true to a child's sense of the world or is an author
> projecting adult understanding or nostalgia on characters or
> readers? Here are books that are overtly nostalgic in look
> and feel--what do today's children and teens make of them?
>
> Megan
>
> --
> Megan Schliesman, Librarian
> Cooperative Children's Book Center
> School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
>
> 608/262-9503
> schliesman at education.wisc.edu
>
> www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
>
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