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From: Jeri Chase Ferris <jchaseferris>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:20:29 -0700
Great post! I'll add two more pairings, which aren't so much NF and F as they are NF and pictures books on the same person.
The two:
WHAT ARE YOU FIGURING NOW? (the biography of Benjamin Banneker, "the brown Benjamin Franklin") paired with a picture book about his grandmother, MOLLY BANNAKY.
And WHAT I HAD WAS SINGING (the biography of Marian Anderson) paired with the beautiful picture book about her Easter Sunday concert, WHEN MARIAN SANG.
Jeri Ferris Award-winning author of multicultural biographies for grade 3 up www.jerichaseferris.com
On Sep 15, 2008, at 2:09 PM, sully at sully-writer.com wrote:
>
> This is a subject I have a strong interest in because I am an avid
> nonfiction reader and I encourage students and teachers to pair fiction
> and nonfiction titles.
>
> A few years ago, Chris Crowe published the Getting Away with Murder:
> The
> True Story of the Emmett Till Case and Mississippi Trial, 1955, a novel
> that explores the Till case from a fictional viewpoint. Like
> Bartoletti's Hitler Youth titles, Crowe's books offers unique insight
> into how an author write about a subject from the perspectives of
> fiction and nonfiction. Additionally, Marylin Nelson's stunning poetry
> book, A Wreath for Emmett Till (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) is an
> outstanding title to read with the Crowe books.
>
> There are many wonderful possibilities for fiction and nonfiction
> pairings:
>
> Jim Murphy's An American Plague and Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever 1793.
>
> Margaret Peterson Haddix's recent Uprising with Joan Dash's We Shall
> Not
> Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909(Scholastic, 1996). Mary
> Jane Auch also wrote a novel on the subject, Ashes of Roses. Lame title
> but excellent novel.
>
> James Cross Giblin's Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin
> Booth
> & John Wilkes Boothand Anna Myers's Assassin.
>
> Russell Freedman's Children of the Great Depression and Karen Hesse's
> Out of the Dust or Tracey Porter's Treasures in the Dust.
>
> Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry (National
> Geographic) would be great to read along with several different
> versions
> of the folktale.
>
> There are all sorts of excellent possibilities with subjects like the
> Civil Rights Movement, Holocaust and Japanese-American Internment.
>
> I'll be self-serving and mention my recently published history of the
> Manhattan Project, The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Develop the Atomic
> Bomb(Holiday House, 2007). Some good companion titles would be Eleanor
> Coerr's Sadako, Ellen Klages's Green Glass Sea, John Hersey's
> Hiroshima,
> and Toshi Maruki's Hiroshima No Pika.
>
> Ed Sullivan
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Received on Mon 15 Sep 2008 05:20:29 PM CDT
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:20:29 -0700
Great post! I'll add two more pairings, which aren't so much NF and F as they are NF and pictures books on the same person.
The two:
WHAT ARE YOU FIGURING NOW? (the biography of Benjamin Banneker, "the brown Benjamin Franklin") paired with a picture book about his grandmother, MOLLY BANNAKY.
And WHAT I HAD WAS SINGING (the biography of Marian Anderson) paired with the beautiful picture book about her Easter Sunday concert, WHEN MARIAN SANG.
Jeri Ferris Award-winning author of multicultural biographies for grade 3 up www.jerichaseferris.com
On Sep 15, 2008, at 2:09 PM, sully at sully-writer.com wrote:
>
> This is a subject I have a strong interest in because I am an avid
> nonfiction reader and I encourage students and teachers to pair fiction
> and nonfiction titles.
>
> A few years ago, Chris Crowe published the Getting Away with Murder:
> The
> True Story of the Emmett Till Case and Mississippi Trial, 1955, a novel
> that explores the Till case from a fictional viewpoint. Like
> Bartoletti's Hitler Youth titles, Crowe's books offers unique insight
> into how an author write about a subject from the perspectives of
> fiction and nonfiction. Additionally, Marylin Nelson's stunning poetry
> book, A Wreath for Emmett Till (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) is an
> outstanding title to read with the Crowe books.
>
> There are many wonderful possibilities for fiction and nonfiction
> pairings:
>
> Jim Murphy's An American Plague and Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever 1793.
>
> Margaret Peterson Haddix's recent Uprising with Joan Dash's We Shall
> Not
> Be Moved: The Women's Factory Strike of 1909(Scholastic, 1996). Mary
> Jane Auch also wrote a novel on the subject, Ashes of Roses. Lame title
> but excellent novel.
>
> James Cross Giblin's Good Brother, Bad Brother: The Story of Edwin
> Booth
> & John Wilkes Boothand Anna Myers's Assassin.
>
> Russell Freedman's Children of the Great Depression and Karen Hesse's
> Out of the Dust or Tracey Porter's Treasures in the Dust.
>
> Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry (National
> Geographic) would be great to read along with several different
> versions
> of the folktale.
>
> There are all sorts of excellent possibilities with subjects like the
> Civil Rights Movement, Holocaust and Japanese-American Internment.
>
> I'll be self-serving and mention my recently published history of the
> Manhattan Project, The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Develop the Atomic
> Bomb(Holiday House, 2007). Some good companion titles would be Eleanor
> Coerr's Sadako, Ellen Klages's Green Glass Sea, John Hersey's
> Hiroshima,
> and Toshi Maruki's Hiroshima No Pika.
>
> Ed Sullivan
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> CCBC-Net mailing list
> CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
> Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
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