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From: Nancy Silverrod <nsilverrod>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:35:34 -0700
One of my favorite characters is the great auk in Allan Eckert's book of the same name. Eckert won a Newbery Honor Award for Incident at Hawk's Hill. The Great Auk is a novel about the extinction of these majestic swimming birds, and the story is told in the voice of their last flock leader.
There is a distinct level of anthropomorphization that we see as old-fashioned and unacceptable in books for older readers, but Eckert makes it work to personalize the loss of a species in a way that readers can't help but care about. He does the same in his book about the last passenger pigeon: The Silent Sky.
Both of these books have remained with me ever since reading them in the late 60s, and probably greatly influenced my interest in birds.
Nancy
Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction. -Francis Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. -Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (1903-1974)
A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at lists.education.wisc.edu [mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at lists.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Connie Rockman Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:59 AM To: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Character driven...
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle - how she stood out from all those clueless '50s mothers who called for her help. She seems to me, in retrospect, like a Nancy Drew grown old but still having an answer for everything. Connie Rockman
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:35:34 -0700
One of my favorite characters is the great auk in Allan Eckert's book of the same name. Eckert won a Newbery Honor Award for Incident at Hawk's Hill. The Great Auk is a novel about the extinction of these majestic swimming birds, and the story is told in the voice of their last flock leader.
There is a distinct level of anthropomorphization that we see as old-fashioned and unacceptable in books for older readers, but Eckert makes it work to personalize the loss of a species in a way that readers can't help but care about. He does the same in his book about the last passenger pigeon: The Silent Sky.
Both of these books have remained with me ever since reading them in the late 60s, and probably greatly influenced my interest in birds.
Nancy
Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction. -Francis Picabia, painter and poet (1879-1953)
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. -Cyril Connolly, critic and editor (1903-1974)
A closed mind is like a closed book: just a block of wood. -Chinese Proverb
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at lists.education.wisc.edu [mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at lists.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Connie Rockman Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:59 AM To: Subscribers of ccbc-net Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Character driven...
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle - how she stood out from all those clueless '50s mothers who called for her help. She seems to me, in retrospect, like a Nancy Drew grown old but still having an answer for everything. Connie Rockman
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