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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:05:38 -0600
It's time to turn out attention to the CCBC-Net discussion topic for the second part of February:
*Fantastic Fiction or A Fine Romance?* Over the past few years, we've seen masses of books with romantic leads that have morphed through a supernatural roll-call, from vampires to werewolves to fallen angels. A glimpse of what's next on the not-quite-human horizon includes cyborgs and androids . . . what else? And can these books truly be considered fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction, or are the majority actually romances, cloaked in the guise of other genres?
What do you think about the shifting cast of extraordinary creatures in popular young adult fiction?
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 Tue 21 Feb 2012 10:05:38 AM CST
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:05:38 -0600
It's time to turn out attention to the CCBC-Net discussion topic for the second part of February:
*Fantastic Fiction or A Fine Romance?* Over the past few years, we've seen masses of books with romantic leads that have morphed through a supernatural roll-call, from vampires to werewolves to fallen angels. A glimpse of what's next on the not-quite-human horizon includes cyborgs and androids . . . what else? And can these books truly be considered fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction, or are the majority actually romances, cloaked in the guise of other genres?
What do you think about the shifting cast of extraordinary creatures in popular young adult fiction?
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 Tue 21 Feb 2012 10:05:38 AM CST
