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[CCBC-Net] August Discussion: On Vacation
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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman>
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:03:03 -0500
On Vacation: No, that's not a message about the CCBC staff, it's the topic of our discussion for August.
We know some of you are on vacation in this popular month for getaways, while other members of the CCBC-net community are winding down summer library reading programs, or gearing up for a new school year.
We're spending the month of August talking about books in which vacations are a catalyst--for adventure, whimsy, insight, and even lasting change in the lives of their characters. Martha the talking dog and her family are off to a seaside resort where there are ?no dogs allowed? in "Martha Calling" //by Susan Meddaugh. Another Martha?s trip to the sea marks a summer of awakenings in// "Olive's Ocean" by Kevin Henkes. The old family farm where her father sees ?happy memories everywhere? is at first full of nothing but ?old furniture and dust" for the narrator Lynne Rae Perkins "Pictures from Our Vacation." And in "The Bogggart" //by Susan Cooper, a family?s brief trip to Scotland to sort out their inheritance leads to an unintentional?and unwanted?vacation for a mischievous creature they accidentally ship back home.
What books for children and teens do you think of when you hear "on vacation"?
Megan
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:03:03 -0500
On Vacation: No, that's not a message about the CCBC staff, it's the topic of our discussion for August.
We know some of you are on vacation in this popular month for getaways, while other members of the CCBC-net community are winding down summer library reading programs, or gearing up for a new school year.
We're spending the month of August talking about books in which vacations are a catalyst--for adventure, whimsy, insight, and even lasting change in the lives of their characters. Martha the talking dog and her family are off to a seaside resort where there are ?no dogs allowed? in "Martha Calling" //by Susan Meddaugh. Another Martha?s trip to the sea marks a summer of awakenings in// "Olive's Ocean" by Kevin Henkes. The old family farm where her father sees ?happy memories everywhere? is at first full of nothing but ?old furniture and dust" for the narrator Lynne Rae Perkins "Pictures from Our Vacation." And in "The Bogggart" //by Susan Cooper, a family?s brief trip to Scotland to sort out their inheritance leads to an unintentional?and unwanted?vacation for a mischievous creature they accidentally ship back home.
What books for children and teens do you think of when you hear "on vacation"?
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/Received on Tue 05 Aug 2008 12:03:03 PM CDT
