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From: Nancy Bo Flood <wflood_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:45:26 -0700
Healing is such an appropriate word for what an honest book can offer, he aling plus understanding, an opportunity to understand one's own experi en ce or another's. Understanding and awareness is the basis of compassion. C hildren seek truth not deception. I believe our responsibility to present t he truth. I agree that children are discerning readers and close a book tha t they are not ready to understand.
Shaun Tan in his picture book, THE RED TREE wrote, "the world is a deaf machine." James Baldwin once wrote: "While the tale of how we suffer and how we are d elighted and how we triumph is never new, it always must be heard. The re isn't any other tale to tell. It's the only light we've got in this darkn ess."
Books tell the tales that are too often silenced in "a deaf machine." Recen t research indicates that 90% of what we read, we read as children. Th es e stories influence us throughout our lives. As Roseanne Parry described 2C one book, even a book about war or rape, can provide light that be gins a journey of awareness and understanding.
Nancy Bo Flood
Warriors in the Crossfire ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young AdultsBooklist Editor's Choice: Top Ten Historical NovelsNotable Books for a Global Socie ty
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:52:17 -0700 From: sully_at_sully-writer.com Subject: RE:
How much...? To: rosanneparry_at_comcast.net CC: kansascitymom@earthlink.net; ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu
In my experience as librarian, I've found that kids of all ages are dis ce rning readers. They recognize when they're reading a book they're not ready for and put it down. I've never known a reader to be traumatized by what h e/she read. It's quite often that kids find it quite healing to read a book about a trauma that they or someone they know suffered. One that immediate ly comes to mind is Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak. Laurie has received thou sands of letters from girls and young women over the years who are vicitms of rape who found the story healing.
Edward T. Sullivan, Rogue Librarian Author, The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb (Holid ay House, 2007) Visit my web site, http://www.sully-writer.com
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Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 23:45:26 -0700
Healing is such an appropriate word for what an honest book can offer, he aling plus understanding, an opportunity to understand one's own experi en ce or another's. Understanding and awareness is the basis of compassion. C hildren seek truth not deception. I believe our responsibility to present t he truth. I agree that children are discerning readers and close a book tha t they are not ready to understand.
Shaun Tan in his picture book, THE RED TREE wrote, "the world is a deaf machine." James Baldwin once wrote: "While the tale of how we suffer and how we are d elighted and how we triumph is never new, it always must be heard. The re isn't any other tale to tell. It's the only light we've got in this darkn ess."
Books tell the tales that are too often silenced in "a deaf machine." Recen t research indicates that 90% of what we read, we read as children. Th es e stories influence us throughout our lives. As Roseanne Parry described 2C one book, even a book about war or rape, can provide light that be gins a journey of awareness and understanding.
Nancy Bo Flood
Warriors in the Crossfire ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young AdultsBooklist Editor's Choice: Top Ten Historical NovelsNotable Books for a Global Socie ty
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:52:17 -0700 From: sully_at_sully-writer.com Subject: RE:
How much...? To: rosanneparry_at_comcast.net CC: kansascitymom@earthlink.net; ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu
In my experience as librarian, I've found that kids of all ages are dis ce rning readers. They recognize when they're reading a book they're not ready for and put it down. I've never known a reader to be traumatized by what h e/she read. It's quite often that kids find it quite healing to read a book about a trauma that they or someone they know suffered. One that immediate ly comes to mind is Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak. Laurie has received thou sands of letters from girls and young women over the years who are vicitms of rape who found the story healing.
Edward T. Sullivan, Rogue Librarian Author, The Ultimate Weapon: The Race to Develop the Atomic Bomb (Holid ay House, 2007) Visit my web site, http://www.sully-writer.com
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