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[CCBC-Net] Garmann's Summer & Postmodern Picture Books: A Few Resources
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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:04:14 -0600
On 2/21, Miriam Lang Budin wrote that Stian Hole, the author of
"Garmann's Summer," is the winner of the 2009 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. Miriam is one of the people who has written appreciatively on CCBC-Net about this provocative picture book. She chairs the 2009 EJK Committee, and later this season she'll inform the CCBC-Net community about details related to the April 30th EJK Award event in Manhattan at which Mr. Hole will be present to speak about his book.
Find the issue of "Bookbird" (V. 46, #3, 2008) where on pp. 49-51 you'll read a compelling commentary about the artwork in "Garmann's Summer."
Look for the 268-page scholarly volume "Postmodern Picturebooks : Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality" edited by Lawrence R. Sipe and Sylvia Pantaleo published in 2008 by in the Routledge Research in Education series. You'll find chapters by scholars whose work some of you know, such as Eliza T. Dresang and Barbara Kiefer, and many you whose work you probably don't know. Regardless, don't miss Martin Salisbury's chapter
"The Artist and the Postmodern Picturebook" in which he devotes considerable attention to "Garmann's Summer," referring to it as
"postmodern with soul." Salisbury observes that "Garmann's Summer" is
"Bollywood meets David Lynch." He cites inspirations including Holden Caulfield and Edward Hopper. Agree or not, it's compelling reading. I discovered the text of this book on-line. Wow, am I eager to hear what Mr. Hole has to say for himself! (And maybe he'll also comment about his book "Garmann's Street" scheduled to be published sometime in the U.S.)
After you've digested Salisbury's chapter, or even beforehand, just Google "postmodern picture books" and you'll find an array of resources. You'll be surprised at what's there. For example, you'll see references to "Black and White" by David Macaulay, "Voices in the Park" by Anthony Browne, "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Stupid Tales" by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith, and David Wiesner's "The Three Pigs." You'll see that
"Garmann's Summer" is a recent addition to a growing line of postmodern picture books many U.S. children already enjoy and even love.
Maybe all this can lead to a future CCBC-Net discussion...
Best, Ginny
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:04:14 -0600
On 2/21, Miriam Lang Budin wrote that Stian Hole, the author of
"Garmann's Summer," is the winner of the 2009 Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award. Miriam is one of the people who has written appreciatively on CCBC-Net about this provocative picture book. She chairs the 2009 EJK Committee, and later this season she'll inform the CCBC-Net community about details related to the April 30th EJK Award event in Manhattan at which Mr. Hole will be present to speak about his book.
Find the issue of "Bookbird" (V. 46, #3, 2008) where on pp. 49-51 you'll read a compelling commentary about the artwork in "Garmann's Summer."
Look for the 268-page scholarly volume "Postmodern Picturebooks : Play, Parody, and Self-Referentiality" edited by Lawrence R. Sipe and Sylvia Pantaleo published in 2008 by in the Routledge Research in Education series. You'll find chapters by scholars whose work some of you know, such as Eliza T. Dresang and Barbara Kiefer, and many you whose work you probably don't know. Regardless, don't miss Martin Salisbury's chapter
"The Artist and the Postmodern Picturebook" in which he devotes considerable attention to "Garmann's Summer," referring to it as
"postmodern with soul." Salisbury observes that "Garmann's Summer" is
"Bollywood meets David Lynch." He cites inspirations including Holden Caulfield and Edward Hopper. Agree or not, it's compelling reading. I discovered the text of this book on-line. Wow, am I eager to hear what Mr. Hole has to say for himself! (And maybe he'll also comment about his book "Garmann's Street" scheduled to be published sometime in the U.S.)
After you've digested Salisbury's chapter, or even beforehand, just Google "postmodern picture books" and you'll find an array of resources. You'll be surprised at what's there. For example, you'll see references to "Black and White" by David Macaulay, "Voices in the Park" by Anthony Browne, "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Stupid Tales" by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith, and David Wiesner's "The Three Pigs." You'll see that
"Garmann's Summer" is a recent addition to a growing line of postmodern picture books many U.S. children already enjoy and even love.
Maybe all this can lead to a future CCBC-Net discussion...
Best, Ginny
-- Ginny Moore Kruse Emerita Director Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) gmkruse at wisc.edu phone: 608.238.9225Received on Wed 25 Feb 2009 11:04:14 AM CST
