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From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:38:47 -0500
Forgive me if you are getting this message twice -- one list member said that he was seeing only a blank post when I responded to previous threads (and, CCBC, why would that be?)
Dean's post, and Jean's original message about San Antonio, actually put this whole question of databases and NF in a different light. I think a case can be made for using databases to help students find specific names , dates, and such. Yet that leaves a great deal of space for books such as We Are the Ship, Hitler Youth, and all of this year's Sibert (and for tha t matter YALSA NF award) honorees. The reason for writing NF for younger readers as a book is to present fresh ideas, in carefully designed pages, with excellent illustrations. And even beyond all of these fine book-maki ng qualities, the best NF shows an author's passion, an author's voice, an author's craft -- there is a person behind the story s/he is telling youn g people, not a program. The past is matter of investigation, detective wo rk, new thinking -- and books that risk going on those new pathways invite young people to follow. A database offers only passive reading -- the stu dent takes in what the program knows. The best NF invites act ive reading -- inspiring the reader to question, investigate, search on his or her ow n.
Marc Aronson
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:38:47 -0500
Forgive me if you are getting this message twice -- one list member said that he was seeing only a blank post when I responded to previous threads (and, CCBC, why would that be?)
Dean's post, and Jean's original message about San Antonio, actually put this whole question of databases and NF in a different light. I think a case can be made for using databases to help students find specific names , dates, and such. Yet that leaves a great deal of space for books such as We Are the Ship, Hitler Youth, and all of this year's Sibert (and for tha t matter YALSA NF award) honorees. The reason for writing NF for younger readers as a book is to present fresh ideas, in carefully designed pages, with excellent illustrations. And even beyond all of these fine book-maki ng qualities, the best NF shows an author's passion, an author's voice, an author's craft -- there is a person behind the story s/he is telling youn g people, not a program. The past is matter of investigation, detective wo rk, new thinking -- and books that risk going on those new pathways invite young people to follow. A database offers only passive reading -- the stu dent takes in what the program knows. The best NF invites act ive reading -- inspiring the reader to question, investigate, search on his or her ow n.
Marc Aronson
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