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From: Annette Goldsmith <agoldsmith.fsu_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:05:31 -0800
Sorry, I know I'm a day late, but I've just read through the whole discussion and did not want you all to miss the fine YA novel Heck Superher o by Martine Leavitt (Red Deer Press, 2004 - published in the U.S. by Front Street), in which a 13 year old named Heck (short for Hector) has to deal with sudden homelessness and the disappearance of his mother. Here's a smal l taste: when Heck, a talented artist, is told by his art teacher that art is not about making a perfect copy but rather about bringing himself to the drawing, ".Heck felt like someone had just added an extra room to his brain . That's when he knew that reality was just clay, something you could mold, o r paint, or change by doing Good Deeds." Heck has comic book superhero pretensions and finds it increasingly difficult to reconcile what he wants to accomplish (Good Deeds) with his increasing isolation from the people wh o might help him. Red Deer Press is another Canadian small press that often publishes books with social justice themes, and cle arly this book was a goo d fit for Front Street's YA list.
I also want to second Ginny Moore Kruse's admiration for "I Know Here" by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood, 2010), which in Octobe r won yet another award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, one of the T D Canadian Children's Literature Awards. An early poster in the discussion asked about characters who live in trailers, and this book is about one suc h tiny community in northeastern Saskatchewan. The father's construction job (he has been building a dam) is ending and the family prepares to move to the big city - Toronto.
Thanks for the great discussion, everyone!
Annette
Annette Goldsmith, PhD
Residence: Los Angeles, CA
Guest Faculty, University of Washington Information School
Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California School of Social Work & USC Libraries
Member, 2011-2012 Schneider Family Book Award Jury, American Library Association
State Ambassador, California, United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)
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Received on Wed 16 Nov 2011 11:05:31 AM CST
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:05:31 -0800
Sorry, I know I'm a day late, but I've just read through the whole discussion and did not want you all to miss the fine YA novel Heck Superher o by Martine Leavitt (Red Deer Press, 2004 - published in the U.S. by Front Street), in which a 13 year old named Heck (short for Hector) has to deal with sudden homelessness and the disappearance of his mother. Here's a smal l taste: when Heck, a talented artist, is told by his art teacher that art is not about making a perfect copy but rather about bringing himself to the drawing, ".Heck felt like someone had just added an extra room to his brain . That's when he knew that reality was just clay, something you could mold, o r paint, or change by doing Good Deeds." Heck has comic book superhero pretensions and finds it increasingly difficult to reconcile what he wants to accomplish (Good Deeds) with his increasing isolation from the people wh o might help him. Red Deer Press is another Canadian small press that often publishes books with social justice themes, and cle arly this book was a goo d fit for Front Street's YA list.
I also want to second Ginny Moore Kruse's admiration for "I Know Here" by Laurel Croza, illustrated by Matt James (Groundwood, 2010), which in Octobe r won yet another award, the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, one of the T D Canadian Children's Literature Awards. An early poster in the discussion asked about characters who live in trailers, and this book is about one suc h tiny community in northeastern Saskatchewan. The father's construction job (he has been building a dam) is ending and the family prepares to move to the big city - Toronto.
Thanks for the great discussion, everyone!
Annette
Annette Goldsmith, PhD
Residence: Los Angeles, CA
Guest Faculty, University of Washington Information School
Visiting Scholar, University of Southern California School of Social Work & USC Libraries
Member, 2011-2012 Schneider Family Book Award Jury, American Library Association
State Ambassador, California, United States Board on Books for Young People (USBBY)
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Received on Wed 16 Nov 2011 11:05:31 AM CST
