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From: Wendy Burton <burtonwl_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:23:20 -0800 (PST)
Well, I was absolutely dismayed by the portrayal of someone with a disabili ty in one book--The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. I brought this up on Heavy Medal once and no one seemed interested in the issue, but perhaps others h ere are. There's a child in that book with mental challenges related to hyd rocephalus, and he's described in degrading and cruel terms. For instance, he's described as "mooing".
I would have thought we were past this kind of thing in publishing today.
Wendy burtonwl_at_yahoo.com
--- On Mon, 2/22/10, Kathleen T. Horning wrote
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From: Kathleen T. Horning Subject:
Schneider Family Book Award To: "CCBC-NET" Date: Monday, February 22, 2010, 1:17 PM Jonathan Hunt just mentioned "Marcelo in the Real World " as a book he expected to see get more attention this year from award committees. There is one award committee that didn't overlook it, since it won in the Teen Book category for the Schneider Family Book Awards from ALA. This is an an award that goes to books in three categories -- Teen, Middle School, and Young Children -- for "artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences." In 2010 the winners were:
Teen: "Marcelo in the Real World" by Francisco X. Stork (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
Middle School "Anything but Typical" by Nora Raleigh Baskin (Simon & Schuster)
Young Child: "Django" by Bonnie Christensen (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook)
We welcome your comments about any or all of this year's winners, as well as any observations you'd like to make about the portrayal of disability in general in books for children and teens.
--KT
Kathleen T. Horning Director Cooperative Children's Book Center 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-3721 FAX: 608-262-4933
horning_at_education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:23:20 -0800 (PST)
Well, I was absolutely dismayed by the portrayal of someone with a disabili ty in one book--The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate. I brought this up on Heavy Medal once and no one seemed interested in the issue, but perhaps others h ere are. There's a child in that book with mental challenges related to hyd rocephalus, and he's described in degrading and cruel terms. For instance, he's described as "mooing".
I would have thought we were past this kind of thing in publishing today.
Wendy burtonwl_at_yahoo.com
--- On Mon, 2/22/10, Kathleen T. Horning wrote
:
From: Kathleen T. Horning Subject:
Schneider Family Book Award To: "CCBC-NET" Date: Monday, February 22, 2010, 1:17 PM Jonathan Hunt just mentioned "Marcelo in the Real World " as a book he expected to see get more attention this year from award committees. There is one award committee that didn't overlook it, since it won in the Teen Book category for the Schneider Family Book Awards from ALA. This is an an award that goes to books in three categories -- Teen, Middle School, and Young Children -- for "artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences." In 2010 the winners were:
Teen: "Marcelo in the Real World" by Francisco X. Stork (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
Middle School "Anything but Typical" by Nora Raleigh Baskin (Simon & Schuster)
Young Child: "Django" by Bonnie Christensen (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook)
We welcome your comments about any or all of this year's winners, as well as any observations you'd like to make about the portrayal of disability in general in books for children and teens.
--KT
Kathleen T. Horning Director Cooperative Children's Book Center 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-3721 FAX: 608-262-4933
horning_at_education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
---Received on Mon 22 Feb 2010 01:23:20 PM CST
