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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:31:32 -0500
Perry Nodelman wrote:
"I find myself having to admit that some of the things i like about those likeable texts are exactly the ways in which they work to manipulate their readers, including me."
Perry, I'm curious about whether you see this manipulation as being conscious, or whether it has become subconsciously imbedded in our understanding of the genre, so that authors and artists may in fact be--at least at times--unwitting participants. Of course, we can all think of books where the manipulation is obvious rather than artful, but it is those artful books--the ones that manage to be well written, sometimes beautifully written, and child-centered--that I find myself thinking in terms of this idea of the manipulation of the child reader.
Your discussion of A Very Special House by Maurice Sendak suggests a concsiousness to this. Would you say that is typically true?
And what do others of you-- readers, and writers or illustrators--think about this?
Megan
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:31:32 -0500
Perry Nodelman wrote:
"I find myself having to admit that some of the things i like about those likeable texts are exactly the ways in which they work to manipulate their readers, including me."
Perry, I'm curious about whether you see this manipulation as being conscious, or whether it has become subconsciously imbedded in our understanding of the genre, so that authors and artists may in fact be--at least at times--unwitting participants. Of course, we can all think of books where the manipulation is obvious rather than artful, but it is those artful books--the ones that manage to be well written, sometimes beautifully written, and child-centered--that I find myself thinking in terms of this idea of the manipulation of the child reader.
Your discussion of A Very Special House by Maurice Sendak suggests a concsiousness to this. Would you say that is typically true?
And what do others of you-- readers, and writers or illustrators--think about this?
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 17 Jul 2009 12:31:32 PM CDT
