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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman>
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 10:32:15 -0500
Please use the next few days to share your children's and young adult literture-related announcements.
Next week we will begin the first of our two May discussion toipcs:
*First Half of May: Tried and True Picture Book Authors. *
Whose books do you turn to over and over again as you share books with babies, toddlers, and preschoolers? Which picture book creators are you always excited to see have a new book coming out? During the first half of May, we invite you to talk about the picture book creators whose body of work offers titles that never fail when you share books with young children.
*Second Half of May: Primary Sources: Harper Lee Up Close.*
The new biography of Harper Lee, ?/Up Close: Harper Lee? /(Viking, 2009) is an illuminating look at the life of the author of ?/To Kill a
//Mockingbird/.? From her childhood growing up in Monroeville, Alabama, in the 1940s and 1950s, to her life as an aspiring writer in New York City in the late 1950s and 1960s, to her desire for privacy in the wake of ?/Mockingbird//?/s? publication that she has maintained to this day/,
/Lee?s life, and the spheres in which she has lived it, make fascinating reading in Madden?s book. Author Kerry Madden will join us the second half of May to talk about her biography of Harper Lee, and the incredible primary research journey that she undertook in order to write it. We invite you to share other examples of books for children and teens that draw on primary research as part of our discussion.
Megan
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 10:32:15 -0500
Please use the next few days to share your children's and young adult literture-related announcements.
Next week we will begin the first of our two May discussion toipcs:
*First Half of May: Tried and True Picture Book Authors. *
Whose books do you turn to over and over again as you share books with babies, toddlers, and preschoolers? Which picture book creators are you always excited to see have a new book coming out? During the first half of May, we invite you to talk about the picture book creators whose body of work offers titles that never fail when you share books with young children.
*Second Half of May: Primary Sources: Harper Lee Up Close.*
The new biography of Harper Lee, ?/Up Close: Harper Lee? /(Viking, 2009) is an illuminating look at the life of the author of ?/To Kill a
//Mockingbird/.? From her childhood growing up in Monroeville, Alabama, in the 1940s and 1950s, to her life as an aspiring writer in New York City in the late 1950s and 1960s, to her desire for privacy in the wake of ?/Mockingbird//?/s? publication that she has maintained to this day/,
/Lee?s life, and the spheres in which she has lived it, make fascinating reading in Madden?s book. Author Kerry Madden will join us the second half of May to talk about her biography of Harper Lee, and the incredible primary research journey that she undertook in order to write it. We invite you to share other examples of books for children and teens that draw on primary research as part of our discussion.
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706 608/262-9503 schliesman at education.wisc.edu www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/Received on Fri 01 May 2009 10:32:15 AM CDT
