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From: Norma Jean Sawicki <nsawicki>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:11:46 -0400
Yes...for sure, kudos to KT and Megan for inviting Leonard, and to Leonard for saying yes. In my mind, I have always equated the early movers and shakers to the pioneers who settled the land. Different but...similar.
They were visionaries and risk takers...with an abundance of passion and ideas..some ideas were firm from the start... others evolved; many were organic since there was little or nothing to "copy." Thousands of children's rooms in libraries across the country now, school libraries, too...and in publishing, full fledge children's book divisions with the furniture and all sorts of systems, procedures, etc., place.
But not so then...then there was little...not even the space, or furniture, etc. As librarians and publishing folk move from one job to another, one may fine tune this or that...or, even turn something inside out but unlike the early days where there was nothing, or , very little in place, today, the children's book community is huge.
From the chair in which I sit, huge...so huge it is strangling itself but that is a whole other subject.
Anne Carroll Moore, Ursula Nordstrom, and others of their ilk are often poked for this and that. But visionaries, even the visionaries of today, are often poked...they are a different breed with a mindset, a passion, a drive, that many admire but do not necessarily understand, and sometimes do not like. And while the poking may continue long after they have died, we build on the foundations they created.
If I controlled the world, "old-fashioned" would be put to rest. Within the context of "history," nothing is old fashioned. Not all change is good, or bad...50-100 years from now, folk could look back at us, and wonder...what did they do, or think about this and that...how did it happen, why etc...they may not know...it could have been tossed in cyberspace. Or...cyberspace may have a stronger hold than it has not...and future generations may not care...or, think to care. We, and they will too...call it progress.....So yes...a terrific discussion and for some of us, more reading, and good hard thinking....Norma Jean
Received on Wed 30 Jul 2008 12:11:46 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:11:46 -0400
Yes...for sure, kudos to KT and Megan for inviting Leonard, and to Leonard for saying yes. In my mind, I have always equated the early movers and shakers to the pioneers who settled the land. Different but...similar.
They were visionaries and risk takers...with an abundance of passion and ideas..some ideas were firm from the start... others evolved; many were organic since there was little or nothing to "copy." Thousands of children's rooms in libraries across the country now, school libraries, too...and in publishing, full fledge children's book divisions with the furniture and all sorts of systems, procedures, etc., place.
But not so then...then there was little...not even the space, or furniture, etc. As librarians and publishing folk move from one job to another, one may fine tune this or that...or, even turn something inside out but unlike the early days where there was nothing, or , very little in place, today, the children's book community is huge.
From the chair in which I sit, huge...so huge it is strangling itself but that is a whole other subject.
Anne Carroll Moore, Ursula Nordstrom, and others of their ilk are often poked for this and that. But visionaries, even the visionaries of today, are often poked...they are a different breed with a mindset, a passion, a drive, that many admire but do not necessarily understand, and sometimes do not like. And while the poking may continue long after they have died, we build on the foundations they created.
If I controlled the world, "old-fashioned" would be put to rest. Within the context of "history," nothing is old fashioned. Not all change is good, or bad...50-100 years from now, folk could look back at us, and wonder...what did they do, or think about this and that...how did it happen, why etc...they may not know...it could have been tossed in cyberspace. Or...cyberspace may have a stronger hold than it has not...and future generations may not care...or, think to care. We, and they will too...call it progress.....So yes...a terrific discussion and for some of us, more reading, and good hard thinking....Norma Jean
Received on Wed 30 Jul 2008 12:11:46 PM CDT
