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From: cmcalist at guilford.edu <cmcalist>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 09:34:55 -0400
I am intrigued that so many of the picture books people are mentioning as favorites are folk tale re-tellings. I write folk tales and I have been told by several editors recently that their houses are shying away from publishing folktales. Does anyone know why the market would be moving in that direction when clearly educators and librarians favor the folk tale genre? Do folks think that folk tales will always have a place in picture books? Peace, Caroline McAlister Author of Holy Mole!(August House 2007)
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:55:31 -0500 From: Irene <ifahren at ucls.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Tried and True Picture Book Creators To: CCBC-Net at lists.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <3F894457-27A8-42A6-905C-DA61207BF51F at ucls.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
Eric Kimmel's retold folk tales are very appealing. The Anansi stories he did with Janet Stevens are always a hit in my K-4 library, particularly Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock and Anansi and the Talking Melon. They are good as group or individual reads. Irene Fahrenwald
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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:09:55 -0500 From: "Jean Hildreth" <jhildreth at luxcasco.k12.wi.us> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Best Picture Books To: <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <4A097522.8722.00A3.0 at luxcasco.k12.wi.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
I hope not to repeat any wonderful picture book authors/illustrators already mentioned, but would hate to miss some of my family's timeless favorites.
I grew up hearing my father's sonorous impromptu recitations of Kipling's
Just So Stories which, for many years, I actually thought he had made up
on the spot. One mention of the "gray, green greasy Limpopo River" and I
am back on my father's lap, mesmerized. Also imbedded in my childish
brain are not only the marvelous stories of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the Pooh,
but Milne's wonderful poetry, which is so often overlooked (see Now We Are
Six, and When We Were Very Young).
Add to this list the following: anything by Barbara Cooney (esp. those she both wrote and illustrated, like the luminous Island Boy), Jane Yolen's Owl Moon, Frances Hamerstrom's Walk when the Moon Is Full, anything by Clyde & Wendy Watson, Robert McCloskey, Helen Oxenbury, David Wiesner, Laura Numeroff, Virginia Lee Burton's classics, Sendak's Nutshell Library and In the Night Kitchen, Russell Hoban's Frances books, and The Rain Babies, by Laura Krauss Melmed (ill. so memorably by Jim LaMarche). Oooh! And don't miss Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows ! One afterthought: there is a beautifully illustrated version of James Herriot's Dog Stories which should be in the library of any child who ever loved a dog. Ditto for cat stories!
The picture books available to today's children seem to me to be a virtual embarrassment of riches! And they're equally grand the second time around, with one's grandchildren.
Jean Hildreth Luxemburg-Casco Middle School Casco, Wisconsin
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Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 09:34:55 -0400
I am intrigued that so many of the picture books people are mentioning as favorites are folk tale re-tellings. I write folk tales and I have been told by several editors recently that their houses are shying away from publishing folktales. Does anyone know why the market would be moving in that direction when clearly educators and librarians favor the folk tale genre? Do folks think that folk tales will always have a place in picture books? Peace, Caroline McAlister Author of Holy Mole!(August House 2007)
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1. Re: Tried and True Picture Book Creators (Irene)
2. Best Picture Books (Jean Hildreth)
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:55:31 -0500 From: Irene <ifahren at ucls.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Tried and True Picture Book Creators To: CCBC-Net at lists.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <3F894457-27A8-42A6-905C-DA61207BF51F at ucls.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
Eric Kimmel's retold folk tales are very appealing. The Anansi stories he did with Janet Stevens are always a hit in my K-4 library, particularly Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock and Anansi and the Talking Melon. They are good as group or individual reads. Irene Fahrenwald
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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:09:55 -0500 From: "Jean Hildreth" <jhildreth at luxcasco.k12.wi.us> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Best Picture Books To: <ccbc-net at lists.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <4A097522.8722.00A3.0 at luxcasco.k12.wi.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
I hope not to repeat any wonderful picture book authors/illustrators already mentioned, but would hate to miss some of my family's timeless favorites.
I grew up hearing my father's sonorous impromptu recitations of Kipling's
Just So Stories which, for many years, I actually thought he had made up
on the spot. One mention of the "gray, green greasy Limpopo River" and I
am back on my father's lap, mesmerized. Also imbedded in my childish
brain are not only the marvelous stories of A.A. Milne's Winnie-the Pooh,
but Milne's wonderful poetry, which is so often overlooked (see Now We Are
Six, and When We Were Very Young).
Add to this list the following: anything by Barbara Cooney (esp. those she both wrote and illustrated, like the luminous Island Boy), Jane Yolen's Owl Moon, Frances Hamerstrom's Walk when the Moon Is Full, anything by Clyde & Wendy Watson, Robert McCloskey, Helen Oxenbury, David Wiesner, Laura Numeroff, Virginia Lee Burton's classics, Sendak's Nutshell Library and In the Night Kitchen, Russell Hoban's Frances books, and The Rain Babies, by Laura Krauss Melmed (ill. so memorably by Jim LaMarche). Oooh! And don't miss Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows ! One afterthought: there is a beautifully illustrated version of James Herriot's Dog Stories which should be in the library of any child who ever loved a dog. Ditto for cat stories!
The picture books available to today's children seem to me to be a virtual embarrassment of riches! And they're equally grand the second time around, with one's grandchildren.
Jean Hildreth Luxemburg-Casco Middle School Casco, Wisconsin
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