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From: Steward, Celeste <csteward_at_aclibrary.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:19:59 -0700
"You buy the books because you realize that a book crafted by an artist is different from text on a site. It is exactly the same with nonfiction. A bo ok is crafted by an author, shaped by a designer, given voice and life by i ts illustrations. It is offering you (and your kids) an experience as diffe rent from web snippets as a Paul Zelinsky Rapunzel is from generic Rupunzel _at_ fairytales.com."
So true, I consider a good book to be a work of art, like a play or song. I want to be entertained while learning something new. And it is my sincere hope that the children I buy books for will develop their imaginations via reading...because if that work isn't done in childhood, I'm not sure you ca n acquire imagination as an adult...you definitely can't get one from the I nternet... :)
Celeste Steward Collection Development Librarian IV Alameda County Library 2450 Stevenson Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 (510)745-1586
From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 8:16 AM To: bobr_at_vtlink.net; ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu Subject: Re:
Nonfiction
I'd just add this to Leda's post -- all of you here who are librarians coul d, if you wanted to, download just about any and every fairy and folktale, or endless pages of the world's poetry. But while you may have databases th at offer such selections, you also buy beautiful new versions of those tale s, or clever new interpretations of them, or glorious poems illustrated wit h photos, collages, etc. You buy the books because you realize that a book crafted by an artist is different from text on a site. It is exactly the sa me with nonfiction. A book is crafted by an author, shaped by a designer, g iven voice and life by its illustrations. It is offering you (and your kids ) an experience as different from web snippets as a Paul Zelinsky Rapunzel is from generic Rupunzel_at_ fairytales.com.(I assume I am making this address up, no offense if it is real).
Marc Aronson
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:19:59 -0700
"You buy the books because you realize that a book crafted by an artist is different from text on a site. It is exactly the same with nonfiction. A bo ok is crafted by an author, shaped by a designer, given voice and life by i ts illustrations. It is offering you (and your kids) an experience as diffe rent from web snippets as a Paul Zelinsky Rapunzel is from generic Rupunzel _at_ fairytales.com."
So true, I consider a good book to be a work of art, like a play or song. I want to be entertained while learning something new. And it is my sincere hope that the children I buy books for will develop their imaginations via reading...because if that work isn't done in childhood, I'm not sure you ca n acquire imagination as an adult...you definitely can't get one from the I nternet... :)
Celeste Steward Collection Development Librarian IV Alameda County Library 2450 Stevenson Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538 (510)745-1586
From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 8:16 AM To: bobr_at_vtlink.net; ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu Subject: Re:
Nonfiction
I'd just add this to Leda's post -- all of you here who are librarians coul d, if you wanted to, download just about any and every fairy and folktale, or endless pages of the world's poetry. But while you may have databases th at offer such selections, you also buy beautiful new versions of those tale s, or clever new interpretations of them, or glorious poems illustrated wit h photos, collages, etc. You buy the books because you realize that a book crafted by an artist is different from text on a site. It is exactly the sa me with nonfiction. A book is crafted by an author, shaped by a designer, g iven voice and life by its illustrations. It is offering you (and your kids ) an experience as different from web snippets as a Paul Zelinsky Rapunzel is from generic Rupunzel_at_ fairytales.com.(I assume I am making this address up, no offense if it is real).
Marc Aronson
---Received on Wed 13 Oct 2010 09:19:59 AM CDT
