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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:04:44 -0500 (EST)
I agree about the purpose of the biography is important but I used the d'Au laire 1940 Caldecott winning biography of Lincoln as an example of a poor b iography as it ended, if I remember, with President Lincoln sitting on his porch looking out at the world with no mention of his death. It was great to compare with the later Newbery award winning book with all the details a bout the end of his life.
Peggy Howell
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From: K.T. Horning To: ccbc-net ccbc-net Sent: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 9:52 am Subject:
How Much Truth in Picture Book Biographies?
I've very much appreciated the discussion here. In these times, it's asy to forget that we can disagree and still be civil and respectful. I'd like to raise a specific concern based on a personal scenario I hared with my friend Betty Carter several years ago. I was speaking on he phone to my sister one Saturday in mid February, and I could hear er four-year-old son Jack crying in the background. I asked her if verything was okay with him, and she assured me that it was, but that is dad had just read him a picture-book biography of Abraham Lincoln hat he'd brought home from the school library, and they had just gotten o the part where Lincoln was assassinated. "Poor Jack!" I said, and my ister replied "I know! And he had just gotten over Martin Luther King." I mentioned this to Betty Carter when I next saw her, since I know her o be an expert on nonfiction, and she said that it used to be that iographies about Lincoln for young children omitted details of his ssassination. "You have to wonder," said Betty, "w hat the point is of ntroducing a historical figure and lifting him up as a hero, only to hoot him down on page 32." Betty's question has stayed with me, and I'd like to turn it over to you ll. If a picture book biography of Lincoln or King (or JFK or Malcolm , for that matter) omitted his assassination, would it be acceptable by oday's standards? KT
athleen T. Horning irector ooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) 290 Helen C. White Hall 00 N. Park St adison, WI 53706 ttp://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc orning_at_education.wisc.edu 08-263-3721 (phone) 08-262-4933 (fax)
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Received on Tue 22 Nov 2011 11:04:44 AM CST
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:04:44 -0500 (EST)
I agree about the purpose of the biography is important but I used the d'Au laire 1940 Caldecott winning biography of Lincoln as an example of a poor b iography as it ended, if I remember, with President Lincoln sitting on his porch looking out at the world with no mention of his death. It was great to compare with the later Newbery award winning book with all the details a bout the end of his life.
Peggy Howell
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From: K.T. Horning To: ccbc-net ccbc-net Sent: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 9:52 am Subject:
How Much Truth in Picture Book Biographies?
I've very much appreciated the discussion here. In these times, it's asy to forget that we can disagree and still be civil and respectful. I'd like to raise a specific concern based on a personal scenario I hared with my friend Betty Carter several years ago. I was speaking on he phone to my sister one Saturday in mid February, and I could hear er four-year-old son Jack crying in the background. I asked her if verything was okay with him, and she assured me that it was, but that is dad had just read him a picture-book biography of Abraham Lincoln hat he'd brought home from the school library, and they had just gotten o the part where Lincoln was assassinated. "Poor Jack!" I said, and my ister replied "I know! And he had just gotten over Martin Luther King." I mentioned this to Betty Carter when I next saw her, since I know her o be an expert on nonfiction, and she said that it used to be that iographies about Lincoln for young children omitted details of his ssassination. "You have to wonder," said Betty, "w hat the point is of ntroducing a historical figure and lifting him up as a hero, only to hoot him down on page 32." Betty's question has stayed with me, and I'd like to turn it over to you ll. If a picture book biography of Lincoln or King (or JFK or Malcolm , for that matter) omitted his assassination, would it be acceptable by oday's standards? KT
athleen T. Horning irector ooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) 290 Helen C. White Hall 00 N. Park St adison, WI 53706 ttp://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc orning_at_education.wisc.edu 08-263-3721 (phone) 08-262-4933 (fax)
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