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From: nanbcan_at_aol.com
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:49:47 -0400
John, a good middle grade/YA book involving guns and survival in the wilde rness is Alabama Moon by Watt Key.
Nancy Cantor, media specialist University School of Nova Southeastern University Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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From: sully_at_sully-writer.com To: john coy Cc: CCBC Network Sent: Fri, Oct 15, 2010 10:23 am Subject: RE:
Hunting
I appreciate what you are saying, John. I live and work in a part of the country where hunting and fishing are big parts of a lot of boy's and gir l'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 the subject from publishers like Capstone and Enslow, and fiction was largely limited to Gary Paulsen stories. I would buy whatever was available even if 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) Visit my web site, http://www.sully-writer.com Visit my blog, Rogue Librarian: All About Books and Reading http://sullywr iter.wordpress.com Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/sullywriter
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ccbc-net digest: October 14, 2010 From: john coy Date: Fri, October 15, 2010 8:28 am To: CCBC Network
Marc,
Thank you for raising this topic and thank you everybody for a very intere sting thread that illuminates the issue. Let me add another tangent: hunti ng. 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 sec ond 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 pas sionate about it, and their interests are not reflected in the books they see. Most of them, but not all, are boys, and often these are the same bo ys 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 rea ding 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 picture book?
Thanks, John Coy
www.johncoy.com
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:49:47 -0400
John, a good middle grade/YA book involving guns and survival in the wilde rness is Alabama Moon by Watt Key.
Nancy Cantor, media specialist University School of Nova Southeastern University Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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From: sully_at_sully-writer.com To: john coy Cc: CCBC Network Sent: Fri, Oct 15, 2010 10:23 am Subject: RE:
Hunting
I appreciate what you are saying, John. I live and work in a part of the country where hunting and fishing are big parts of a lot of boy's and gir l'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 the subject from publishers like Capstone and Enslow, and fiction was largely limited to Gary Paulsen stories. I would buy whatever was available even if 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) Visit my web site, http://www.sully-writer.com Visit my blog, Rogue Librarian: All About Books and Reading http://sullywr iter.wordpress.com Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/sullywriter
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Subject: Re:
ccbc-net digest: October 14, 2010 From: john coy Date: Fri, October 15, 2010 8:28 am To: CCBC Network
Marc,
Thank you for raising this topic and thank you everybody for a very intere sting thread that illuminates the issue. Let me add another tangent: hunti ng. 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 sec ond 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 pas sionate about it, and their interests are not reflected in the books they see. Most of them, but not all, are boys, and often these are the same bo ys 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 rea ding 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 picture book?
Thanks, John Coy
www.johncoy.com
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