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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:18:53 -0600
Although I don't have a copy of "One Boy" in my hands right now, I remember thinking while I did, that this is a perfect Geisel Award book. I'm so pleased that the 2009 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Committee selected "One Boy" as one of the Honor Books. It belongs on that roster! I recall that "One Boy" has the elements necessary for a newly independent reader. For example, its spare text and picture clues are perfectly integrated. A shaky new reader's eyes can go back and forth between the two, and s/he will be able to make sense of what can be read both in the text and the visual elements. That's what I remember about
"One Boy," along with Laura Vaccaro Seeger's virtuosity in general. She really knows what she's doing, and so did Neal Porter of Roaring Brook Press when he decided to publish "One Boy." Congratulations all around!
The Geisel Award and Honor Books are not supposed to be practice books or good read-alouds, although some of them might meet those specific uses, too. "Geisel Award books" should offer exciting opportunities to try out new skills for the sheer pleasure of being able to read!
It would be helpful to all of us if some of the Geisel Committee members would step up and tell us all what they appreciated about the books they named as Winner and Honor Books. This doesn't betray confidentiality, and instead it helps everyone to understand the unique and distinctive qualities for which any Geisel Committee is looking.
With appreciation, Ginny
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:18:53 -0600
Although I don't have a copy of "One Boy" in my hands right now, I remember thinking while I did, that this is a perfect Geisel Award book. I'm so pleased that the 2009 Theodor Seuss Geisel Award Committee selected "One Boy" as one of the Honor Books. It belongs on that roster! I recall that "One Boy" has the elements necessary for a newly independent reader. For example, its spare text and picture clues are perfectly integrated. A shaky new reader's eyes can go back and forth between the two, and s/he will be able to make sense of what can be read both in the text and the visual elements. That's what I remember about
"One Boy," along with Laura Vaccaro Seeger's virtuosity in general. She really knows what she's doing, and so did Neal Porter of Roaring Brook Press when he decided to publish "One Boy." Congratulations all around!
The Geisel Award and Honor Books are not supposed to be practice books or good read-alouds, although some of them might meet those specific uses, too. "Geisel Award books" should offer exciting opportunities to try out new skills for the sheer pleasure of being able to read!
It would be helpful to all of us if some of the Geisel Committee members would step up and tell us all what they appreciated about the books they named as Winner and Honor Books. This doesn't betray confidentiality, and instead it helps everyone to understand the unique and distinctive qualities for which any Geisel Committee is looking.
With appreciation, Ginny
-- Ginny Moore Kruse Emerita Director Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) gmkruse at wisc.edu phone: 608.238.9225Received on Sat 28 Feb 2009 12:18:53 PM CST
