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From: DAJ <daj9999_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:26:17 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Fri, 8/5/11, Ruth I. Gordon wrote:
When I taught upper division students and librarians in training (or practice), I assigned the following eye-opening exercise: find a series of books you read and liked as a young(er) person, reread, review. WOW! some people wondered why the books were still in print
One of the first children's lit courses I took (long ago) included a similar exercise: when the instructor learned I'd enjoyed the Bobbsey Twins, she assigned a comparison of the first Bobbsey book with Madeleine L'Engle's _Meet the Austins_. It was an illuminating project that helped with understanding the difference between formula fiction and other types of books with continuing characters (though, as my sig indicates, I've not abandoned series books...)
Deidre A. Johnson
19th-Century Girls Series - http://www.readseries.com
Received on Fri 05 Aug 2011 05:26:17 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:26:17 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Fri, 8/5/11, Ruth I. Gordon wrote:
When I taught upper division students and librarians in training (or practice), I assigned the following eye-opening exercise: find a series of books you read and liked as a young(er) person, reread, review. WOW! some people wondered why the books were still in print
One of the first children's lit courses I took (long ago) included a similar exercise: when the instructor learned I'd enjoyed the Bobbsey Twins, she assigned a comparison of the first Bobbsey book with Madeleine L'Engle's _Meet the Austins_. It was an illuminating project that helped with understanding the difference between formula fiction and other types of books with continuing characters (though, as my sig indicates, I've not abandoned series books...)
Deidre A. Johnson
19th-Century Girls Series - http://www.readseries.com
Received on Fri 05 Aug 2011 05:26:17 PM CDT
