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From: Vardell, Sylvia <SVardell_at_mail.twu.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:45:41 -0500
In honor of Teen Read Week (this week): For those of you who work with teen s and young adults, my students and I have created an electronic resource t hat we hope you'll find helpful. It features homemade digital "movie" trail ers showcasing nearly all the Printz award winners and honor books since 20 00. The Michael L. Printz Award is an award given each year by YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) for a book that exemplifies literary e xcellence in young adult literature. You'll find "previews" of these books at our new collaborative site:
http://printzpreviews.blogspot.com/
This site is not an official site of YALSA, ALA, Booklist, or the Printz Aw ard. It is created by librarians, teachers, and students who want to promot e the Printz award and honor books as well as reading in general among teen s and young adults. You are welcome to visit the site, direct teens and oth ers to the site, and comment there as well. We hope it will stimulate inter est in reading the Printz books, as well as provide models of what others c an do to promote reading or respond artistically to favorite books themselv es. Enjoy!
Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D. Professor Texas Woman's University School of Library & Information Studies P O Box 425438 Denton TX 76204-5438 940-898-2616 svardell_at_twu.edu http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/
Author of: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ACTION; A LIBRARIAN'S GUIDE (Libraries Unlimited, 2008) POETRY PEOPLE; A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CHILDREN'S POETS (Libraries Unlimited, 2007) POETRY ALOUD HERE! SHARING POETRY WITH CHILDREN IN THE LIBRARY (ALA, 2006) BOOK LINKS columnist: Everyday Poetry Co-Editor, BOOKBIRD, the journal of international children's literature (ht tp://www.ibby.org)
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From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 8:41 AM To: ebattzedek_at_americanreading.com; ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu Subject: Re:
why citations matter
Anyone who doubts that citations matter, or thinks that in books for young people they are not necessary, should look up this article in today's Washi ngton Post
7974.html?hpid=topnews
"Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers"
By Kevin Sieff
A 4th grade textbook supposedly vetted and completely approved for use in the state of Virginia claims that thousands of blacks fought for the South during the war -- yet when scholars checked the author's sources it turned out she had merely used websites created by Sons of the Confederacy who are determined to show that the slavery was not a central issue in the war.
Sources and citations matter. And I have to admit in some of my books I've used net sources only to have an expert reader show me that those were date d or inaccurate views -- so the very fact that it is so easy for us to find information makes it all the more important that we get real experts to re view our work before we share it.
Marc Aronson
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 09:45:41 -0500
In honor of Teen Read Week (this week): For those of you who work with teen s and young adults, my students and I have created an electronic resource t hat we hope you'll find helpful. It features homemade digital "movie" trail ers showcasing nearly all the Printz award winners and honor books since 20 00. The Michael L. Printz Award is an award given each year by YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) for a book that exemplifies literary e xcellence in young adult literature. You'll find "previews" of these books at our new collaborative site:
http://printzpreviews.blogspot.com/
This site is not an official site of YALSA, ALA, Booklist, or the Printz Aw ard. It is created by librarians, teachers, and students who want to promot e the Printz award and honor books as well as reading in general among teen s and young adults. You are welcome to visit the site, direct teens and oth ers to the site, and comment there as well. We hope it will stimulate inter est in reading the Printz books, as well as provide models of what others c an do to promote reading or respond artistically to favorite books themselv es. Enjoy!
Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D. Professor Texas Woman's University School of Library & Information Studies P O Box 425438 Denton TX 76204-5438 940-898-2616 svardell_at_twu.edu http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/
Author of: CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ACTION; A LIBRARIAN'S GUIDE (Libraries Unlimited, 2008) POETRY PEOPLE; A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CHILDREN'S POETS (Libraries Unlimited, 2007) POETRY ALOUD HERE! SHARING POETRY WITH CHILDREN IN THE LIBRARY (ALA, 2006) BOOK LINKS columnist: Everyday Poetry Co-Editor, BOOKBIRD, the journal of international children's literature (ht tp://www.ibby.org)
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From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 8:41 AM To: ebattzedek_at_americanreading.com; ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu Subject: Re:
why citations matter
Anyone who doubts that citations matter, or thinks that in books for young people they are not necessary, should look up this article in today's Washi ngton Post
7974.html?hpid=topnews
"Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers"
By Kevin Sieff
A 4th grade textbook supposedly vetted and completely approved for use in the state of Virginia claims that thousands of blacks fought for the South during the war -- yet when scholars checked the author's sources it turned out she had merely used websites created by Sons of the Confederacy who are determined to show that the slavery was not a central issue in the war.
Sources and citations matter. And I have to admit in some of my books I've used net sources only to have an expert reader show me that those were date d or inaccurate views -- so the very fact that it is so easy for us to find information makes it all the more important that we get real experts to re view our work before we share it.
Marc Aronson
---Received on Wed 20 Oct 2010 09:45:41 AM CDT
