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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse_at_wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:54:04 -0500
Two news articles in today's New York Times (11/2/10) feature books for young readers:
1. On page one of the Arts Section, a lengthy article "Revered Writer Becomes Girl Detective" features the new mystery ZORA AND ME by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon (Candlewick, 2010). According to the article, the 192-page novel depicts Zora Neale Hurston as a bright, imaginative fourth grader, living with her family and friends in an all-black Florida town, around 1900. Zora, Carrie (the first-person narrator) and their friend Teddy try to figure out what happened when a man’s headless body is discovered by the railroad tracks. ZORA AND ME is the first book not written by Hurston that has been endorsed by the Zora Neale Hurston Trust, created in 2002 to manage the business of bringing Hurston’s work to a widening audience. CCBC Director Kathleen Horning is quoted in the article, and so is Children's Librarian Lisa Von Drasek from the Bank Street College of Education.
See -
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/books /02zora.html?emc=eta1
2. In the same section an article in the "Arts Briefly" column announces "Prize is Created for Gay Literature for Young Readers."  ; The American Library Association's new Stonewall Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award will honor an "English-language book of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered experience," the association said on Monday. Stonewall Awards for adult books have been handed out since 1971."
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literature-for-young-readers/?emc=eta1
Cordially, Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse
gmkruse_at_wisc.edu
Received on Tue 02 Nov 2010 03:54:04 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:54:04 -0500
Two news articles in today's New York Times (11/2/10) feature books for young readers:
1. On page one of the Arts Section, a lengthy article "Revered Writer Becomes Girl Detective" features the new mystery ZORA AND ME by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon (Candlewick, 2010). According to the article, the 192-page novel depicts Zora Neale Hurston as a bright, imaginative fourth grader, living with her family and friends in an all-black Florida town, around 1900. Zora, Carrie (the first-person narrator) and their friend Teddy try to figure out what happened when a man’s headless body is discovered by the railroad tracks. ZORA AND ME is the first book not written by Hurston that has been endorsed by the Zora Neale Hurston Trust, created in 2002 to manage the business of bringing Hurston’s work to a widening audience. CCBC Director Kathleen Horning is quoted in the article, and so is Children's Librarian Lisa Von Drasek from the Bank Street College of Education.
See -
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/books /02zora.html?emc=eta1
2. In the same section an article in the "Arts Briefly" column announces "Prize is Created for Gay Literature for Young Readers."  ; The American Library Association's new Stonewall Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award will honor an "English-language book of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered experience," the association said on Monday. Stonewall Awards for adult books have been handed out since 1971."
See -
literature-for-young-readers/?emc=eta1
Cordially, Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse
gmkruse_at_wisc.edu
Received on Tue 02 Nov 2010 03:54:04 PM CDT
