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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:49:59 -0600
With respect to those on CCBC-Net who would like our discussion to stay focused on the existing ALA awards, I encourage those of you who want to discuss advocating for an ALA poetry award and the criteria for such an award to get in touch with one another off-list. (And no doubt we will further explore poetry in the future on CCBC-Net.)
I encourage everyone to share thoughts you have about the 2012 ALA award-winning books.
I'll actually tie that to poetry by saying how thrilled I was to see Patricia C. McKissack's "Never Forgotten"--a stirring original tale told through poems about a Mende child stolen and sold into slavery--receive recognition as a Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book.
And I was excited when Guadalupe Garcia McCall's "Under the Mesquite"--a beautifully written novel in poems--received the Pura Belpre Author Award.
And then there is Thanhha Lai's Newbery Honor for "Inside Out & Back Again." I remember when first reading Lai's book thinking how wonderful her poems were as poems--in addition to working together as a compelling novel. I especially remember the scene when her new teacher tells the class to clap when Ha counts to twenty in English. Ha is "furious / unable to explain / I already learned fractions / and how to purify river water. / So this is / what dumb / feels like. / I hate, hate, hate it."
Not to mention Belpre Author Honor "Hurricane Dancers" by Margarita Engle. Engle's poems in multiple voices pulse with feeling as they reveal the often brutal relationship between indigenous people and conquistadors--as well as the longing for a place to belong and the tenderness of love--in a multilayered story built around a Caribbean pirate shipwreck in 1509.
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706 608/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Fri 27 Jan 2012 03:49:59 PM CST
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:49:59 -0600
With respect to those on CCBC-Net who would like our discussion to stay focused on the existing ALA awards, I encourage those of you who want to discuss advocating for an ALA poetry award and the criteria for such an award to get in touch with one another off-list. (And no doubt we will further explore poetry in the future on CCBC-Net.)
I encourage everyone to share thoughts you have about the 2012 ALA award-winning books.
I'll actually tie that to poetry by saying how thrilled I was to see Patricia C. McKissack's "Never Forgotten"--a stirring original tale told through poems about a Mende child stolen and sold into slavery--receive recognition as a Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor Book.
And I was excited when Guadalupe Garcia McCall's "Under the Mesquite"--a beautifully written novel in poems--received the Pura Belpre Author Award.
And then there is Thanhha Lai's Newbery Honor for "Inside Out & Back Again." I remember when first reading Lai's book thinking how wonderful her poems were as poems--in addition to working together as a compelling novel. I especially remember the scene when her new teacher tells the class to clap when Ha counts to twenty in English. Ha is "furious / unable to explain / I already learned fractions / and how to purify river water. / So this is / what dumb / feels like. / I hate, hate, hate it."
Not to mention Belpre Author Honor "Hurricane Dancers" by Margarita Engle. Engle's poems in multiple voices pulse with feeling as they reveal the often brutal relationship between indigenous people and conquistadors--as well as the longing for a place to belong and the tenderness of love--in a multilayered story built around a Caribbean pirate shipwreck in 1509.
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706 608/262-9503 schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Fri 27 Jan 2012 03:49:59 PM CST
