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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:01:00 -0500
Here are CCBC-Net topics for the next two months:
September: *
* First 2 weeks: Parallel Perspectives: Exploring Subjects through Fact and Fiction. In /Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler?s Shadow
/(Scholastic Nonfiction, 2005), Susan Campbell Bartoletti looked at the lives of children and teens who marched for Adolf Hitler. In her novel
/The Boy Who Dared /(Scholastic, 2008), based on the life of Helmuth Hubener, Bartoletti creates a tense and resonant work of fiction about a teen?s political and personal awakening after leaving the Hitler youth and deciding he must challenge his government?s oppression. Each book is powerful on its own, but paired, they offer essential facts as well as a tense and resonant emotional journey into a teen?s growing awareness of his need to act. These two books are just one example of the ways a single subject can be explored through both fact and fiction in children?s and young adult literature. During the first half of September, we invite you to share examples of what you do?in the library or in the classroom?to enhance and extend how children and teens can connect to and understand a single topic by using multiple genres, from picture books and fiction to non-fiction and poetry.
**Second 2 weeks: Get on Board! Original Board Books on a Roll. During much of the 1990s, it seemed that many of the board books published for young children were board editions of previously published picture books, some of which did not make the transition to the different format gracefully. But recently we?ve been delighted by new, original board books that are firmly grounded in an understanding of what makes a good book for the youngest children. In the second half of September, we?ll talk about board books?who they are for and what makes the best stand out. We invite you to share old favorites and welcome new additions to board book shelves and family libraries.
October:
First 2 weeks: Judy Blume: Changing the Landscape of Children's and Young Adult Literature:* *With books such as /Are You There, God? It?s Me, Margaret /and /Forever/, Judy Blume acknowledged the complex feelings associated with puberty and the pleasure of sexual experience. Her honesty was riveting and welcome to readers even as it broke new ground in literature for youth. During the first half of October, we?ll talk about these and other books by Ms. Blume (who will deliver the 2008 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Wednesday evening, October 15), looking at the role her works have played in children?s and young adult literature and the lives of readers.
Second 2 weeks: New Mythologies: Novels Based on Myths and Tales.** Rick Riordan has spun Greek myth into a delightfully imaginative contemporary series in his ?Percy Jackson and the Olympians? novels, while Ad?le Geras weaves rich new perspectives into the complex tapestries of
/Ithaka/ and /Troy/. Michael Gruber?s /The Witch?s Boy/ offers intriguing slants on several fairy tales, and Robin McKinley, Donna Jo Napoli, Shannon Hale and others have sewn riveting stories from a host of traditional tales. During the second half of October, we?ll talk about novels that offer fresh takes on traditional myths, legends and tales.
Megan
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:01:00 -0500
Here are CCBC-Net topics for the next two months:
September: *
* First 2 weeks: Parallel Perspectives: Exploring Subjects through Fact and Fiction. In /Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler?s Shadow
/(Scholastic Nonfiction, 2005), Susan Campbell Bartoletti looked at the lives of children and teens who marched for Adolf Hitler. In her novel
/The Boy Who Dared /(Scholastic, 2008), based on the life of Helmuth Hubener, Bartoletti creates a tense and resonant work of fiction about a teen?s political and personal awakening after leaving the Hitler youth and deciding he must challenge his government?s oppression. Each book is powerful on its own, but paired, they offer essential facts as well as a tense and resonant emotional journey into a teen?s growing awareness of his need to act. These two books are just one example of the ways a single subject can be explored through both fact and fiction in children?s and young adult literature. During the first half of September, we invite you to share examples of what you do?in the library or in the classroom?to enhance and extend how children and teens can connect to and understand a single topic by using multiple genres, from picture books and fiction to non-fiction and poetry.
**Second 2 weeks: Get on Board! Original Board Books on a Roll. During much of the 1990s, it seemed that many of the board books published for young children were board editions of previously published picture books, some of which did not make the transition to the different format gracefully. But recently we?ve been delighted by new, original board books that are firmly grounded in an understanding of what makes a good book for the youngest children. In the second half of September, we?ll talk about board books?who they are for and what makes the best stand out. We invite you to share old favorites and welcome new additions to board book shelves and family libraries.
October:
First 2 weeks: Judy Blume: Changing the Landscape of Children's and Young Adult Literature:* *With books such as /Are You There, God? It?s Me, Margaret /and /Forever/, Judy Blume acknowledged the complex feelings associated with puberty and the pleasure of sexual experience. Her honesty was riveting and welcome to readers even as it broke new ground in literature for youth. During the first half of October, we?ll talk about these and other books by Ms. Blume (who will deliver the 2008 Charlotte Zolotow Lecture on Wednesday evening, October 15), looking at the role her works have played in children?s and young adult literature and the lives of readers.
Second 2 weeks: New Mythologies: Novels Based on Myths and Tales.** Rick Riordan has spun Greek myth into a delightfully imaginative contemporary series in his ?Percy Jackson and the Olympians? novels, while Ad?le Geras weaves rich new perspectives into the complex tapestries of
/Ithaka/ and /Troy/. Michael Gruber?s /The Witch?s Boy/ offers intriguing slants on several fairy tales, and Robin McKinley, Donna Jo Napoli, Shannon Hale and others have sewn riveting stories from a host of traditional tales. During the second half of October, we?ll talk about novels that offer fresh takes on traditional myths, legends and tales.
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 Wed 03 Sep 2008 04:01:00 PM CDT
