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From: Patricia Wiser <lonewise_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:52:15 -0600
It's very worrisome that a school is doing that. My children's literature students, in our assessment of what to change for the next course, suggested requiring more non-fiction for outside reading. These college students grew up with computers and can't live without their laptops and blackberries, yet they love good non-fiction (information books) written for children and for adults. Are we to discard works by Susan Bartoletti? Russell Freedman? My husband and I are reading Phillip Hoose's story of Claudette Colvin, where we find much new information about the Montgomery bus boycott and that era, told in such readable style. No student could get the detail and drama that fills this book in a Web search. Also, as a K-5 library volunteer, I check more information books in and out than I do fiction. The children absolutely devour books on dinosaurs, animals domestic and wild, astronomy, sports, crafts, and biography, biography, biography. Pat Wiser Sewanee: University of the South Sewanee Elementary School Vol unteer
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From: Grace Ruth To: CCBC Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:45 AM Subject: Re:
Nonfiction
How shortsighted! As a child and teen, I was a voracious biography reader. Grace Ruth, formerly at San Francisco Public
--- On Mon, 2/1/10, Norma Jean Sawicki
wrote:
From: Norma Jean Sawicki Subject:
Nonfiction To: "CCBC" Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 8:21 PM
A note from a writer/illustrator who was recently in San Antonio. Too bad people who should know better pass their own prejudices along to the kids they are intended to inspire. Norma Jean
"An elementary school in San Antonio is in the process of removing all their non-fiction books from their (relatively small) library. Students will be using internet only from now on. I noticed a few NF picture books still on the shelf, such as Kadir Nelson's "We Are the Ship," but science, bios, etc. are gone. Kaput."
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:52:15 -0600
It's very worrisome that a school is doing that. My children's literature students, in our assessment of what to change for the next course, suggested requiring more non-fiction for outside reading. These college students grew up with computers and can't live without their laptops and blackberries, yet they love good non-fiction (information books) written for children and for adults. Are we to discard works by Susan Bartoletti? Russell Freedman? My husband and I are reading Phillip Hoose's story of Claudette Colvin, where we find much new information about the Montgomery bus boycott and that era, told in such readable style. No student could get the detail and drama that fills this book in a Web search. Also, as a K-5 library volunteer, I check more information books in and out than I do fiction. The children absolutely devour books on dinosaurs, animals domestic and wild, astronomy, sports, crafts, and biography, biography, biography. Pat Wiser Sewanee: University of the South Sewanee Elementary School Vol unteer
----- Original Message -----
From: Grace Ruth To: CCBC Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 11:45 AM Subject: Re:
Nonfiction
How shortsighted! As a child and teen, I was a voracious biography reader. Grace Ruth, formerly at San Francisco Public
--- On Mon, 2/1/10, Norma Jean Sawicki
wrote:
From: Norma Jean Sawicki Subject:
Nonfiction To: "CCBC" Date: Monday, February 1, 2010, 8:21 PM
A note from a writer/illustrator who was recently in San Antonio. Too bad people who should know better pass their own prejudices along to the kids they are intended to inspire. Norma Jean
"An elementary school in San Antonio is in the process of removing all their non-fiction books from their (relatively small) library. Students will be using internet only from now on. I noticed a few NF picture books still on the shelf, such as Kadir Nelson's "We Are the Ship," but science, bios, etc. are gone. Kaput."
---Received on Thu 04 Feb 2010 02:52:15 PM CST
