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From: Heather Montgomery <sipsey21_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:50:17 +0000
I am interested in exploring this distinction between the K and L nonfictio n books. I'm having trouble thinking of L books for younger readers. For o lder readers I think that Sy Montgomery's Saving the Ghost of the Mountain and her other Scientists in the Field series books would fit, as well a s Steve Jenkins Just a Second. For younger readers, possibly Joyce Sidman 's Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature and perhaps Sarah C. Campbell's Growing Patterns:Fibonacci Numbers in Nature (although that one really covers a wid e age range)?
Anyone else have suggestions? I think the authorial stance/approach/style i s so powerful, yet hard to define.
Heather
Heather L. Montgomery Science and Nature Writing for Kids www.HeatherLMontgomery.com 256-426-5871
New! The Case of the Missing Arctic Fox and Other True Animal Mysteries for You To Solve
Subject: Fwd: K and L
From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:44:15 -0500 (EST)
X-Message-Number: 10
This semester we were fortunate to have Dr. Betty Carter as a guest and she made a point that relates to this disucssion: there are two kinds of nonfi ction author for K-12: "knowers" and "learners." The K author knows somethi ng which s/he finds the most engaging way to pass on to readers. The L auth or is excited by the process of discovery, and it is the thrill of that q uest s/he aims to transmit. Betty's disctinction is so important b/c while in fiction have all kinds of tools for matching patrons with the particular genre or author like like, in NF we tend to act as if the link is by s ub ject: dinos, Vikings, cars, pets, American History, etc . instead of by style, voice, treatment, or authorial approach. I hope th at as we suggest books that respond to Megan's query we keep in mind Betty's dist inction, and start to categorize NF as much by approach and style as by s ubject. (I realize biography and memoir are NF genres, but that still d oe s not define authorial stance)
Marc Aronson
Received on Tue 06 Mar 2012 12:50:17 AM CST
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 00:50:17 +0000
I am interested in exploring this distinction between the K and L nonfictio n books. I'm having trouble thinking of L books for younger readers. For o lder readers I think that Sy Montgomery's Saving the Ghost of the Mountain and her other Scientists in the Field series books would fit, as well a s Steve Jenkins Just a Second. For younger readers, possibly Joyce Sidman 's Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature and perhaps Sarah C. Campbell's Growing Patterns:Fibonacci Numbers in Nature (although that one really covers a wid e age range)?
Anyone else have suggestions? I think the authorial stance/approach/style i s so powerful, yet hard to define.
Heather
Heather L. Montgomery Science and Nature Writing for Kids www.HeatherLMontgomery.com 256-426-5871
New! The Case of the Missing Arctic Fox and Other True Animal Mysteries for You To Solve
Subject: Fwd: K and L
From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:44:15 -0500 (EST)
X-Message-Number: 10
This semester we were fortunate to have Dr. Betty Carter as a guest and she made a point that relates to this disucssion: there are two kinds of nonfi ction author for K-12: "knowers" and "learners." The K author knows somethi ng which s/he finds the most engaging way to pass on to readers. The L auth or is excited by the process of discovery, and it is the thrill of that q uest s/he aims to transmit. Betty's disctinction is so important b/c while in fiction have all kinds of tools for matching patrons with the particular genre or author like like, in NF we tend to act as if the link is by s ub ject: dinos, Vikings, cars, pets, American History, etc . instead of by style, voice, treatment, or authorial approach. I hope th at as we suggest books that respond to Megan's query we keep in mind Betty's dist inction, and start to categorize NF as much by approach and style as by s ubject. (I realize biography and memoir are NF genres, but that still d oe s not define authorial stance)
Marc Aronson
Received on Tue 06 Mar 2012 12:50:17 AM CST
