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From: sully_at_sully-writer.com
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:23:22 -0700
I appreciate what you are saying, John. I live and work in a part of t he country where hunting and fishing are big parts of a lot of boy's a nd girl's lives. I had many requests for books on the subject and there is not much available. There were a couple of mediocre nonfiction series on th e subject from publishers like Capstone and Enslow, and fiction was largely limited to Gary Paulsen stories. I would buy whatever was available even i f it wasn't of the greatest quality because of the significant interest. I can't think of any picture books off the top of my head.
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ccbc-net digest: October 14, 2010 From: john coy johncoy_at_mac.com Date: Fri, October 1 5, 2010 8:28 am To: CCBC Network ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
Marc,
Thank you for raising this topic and thank you everybody for a very in teresting thread that illuminates the issue. Let me add another tangent: hu nting. Here in Minnesota, we have thousands of kids who can not wait to go on their first deer hunt. It's something they dream about. I've even had se cond and third graders when I'm reading NIGHT DRIVING make a gun with their fingers and shoot the deer in the picture.
Now regardless on one's feeling about deer hunting, these students are passionate about it, and their interests are not reflected in the books th ey see. Most of them, but not all, are boys, and often these are the same b oys who as teens we wonder why they are not more interested in books and re ading.
At a young age, they get the message that they should be interested in reading something else, that what they are interested in isn't quite right or good enough. We lose thousands of these kids as readers every year and we pay an enormous cost as a society.
Now does anybody have a good recommendation for that deer hunting pict ure book?
Thanks, John Coy
www.johncoy.com
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:23:22 -0700
I appreciate what you are saying, John. I live and work in a part of t he country where hunting and fishing are big parts of a lot of boy's a nd girl's lives. I had many requests for books on the subject and there is not much available. There were a couple of mediocre nonfiction series on th e subject from publishers like Capstone and Enslow, and fiction was largely limited to Gary Paulsen stories. I would buy whatever was available even i f it wasn't of the greatest quality because of the significant interest. I can't think of any picture books off the top of my head.
Edward T. Sullivan, Rogue Librarian Author, The Ultimate Weapon : The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb (Holiday House, 2007) Vi sit my web site, http://www.sully-w riter.com Visit my blog, Rogue Librarian: All About Books and Readin g http://sullywriter.wordpress .com Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/sullywriter
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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re:
ccbc-net digest: October 14, 2010 From: john coy johncoy_at_mac.com Date: Fri, October 1 5, 2010 8:28 am To: CCBC Network ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu
Marc,
Thank you for raising this topic and thank you everybody for a very in teresting thread that illuminates the issue. Let me add another tangent: hu nting. Here in Minnesota, we have thousands of kids who can not wait to go on their first deer hunt. It's something they dream about. I've even had se cond and third graders when I'm reading NIGHT DRIVING make a gun with their fingers and shoot the deer in the picture.
Now regardless on one's feeling about deer hunting, these students are passionate about it, and their interests are not reflected in the books th ey see. Most of them, but not all, are boys, and often these are the same b oys who as teens we wonder why they are not more interested in books and re ading.
At a young age, they get the message that they should be interested in reading something else, that what they are interested in isn't quite right or good enough. We lose thousands of these kids as readers every year and we pay an enormous cost as a society.
Now does anybody have a good recommendation for that deer hunting pict ure book?
Thanks, John Coy
www.johncoy.com
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