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From: Susan Rubin <susanrubin_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:26:54 -0700 (PDT)
I agree with you that children most enjoy reading about other children in n onfiction as well as fiction.Two of my books fit that category, I think. "The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin," is co-authored with Ela Weissberger and tells of her experiences as an eleven-year-old be ing imprisoned in Terezin Concentration Camp during World War II.My recent title "Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein" is about Lenny's struggles as a boy, then as a teen, to make a career in music despite his father's oppo sition. We intended it as a middle grade book for ages 9 and up but it's al so been designated as a book for older readers. Susan Goldman Rubin
--- On Tue, 3/20/12, Mary Losure wrote:
From: Mary Losure Subject:
Non-fiction for middle-grade readers To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 2:58 PM
Subject: Non-fiction (middle grade): Narrative and information
I think children like to read about other children, which is why they ofte n turn to fiction when reading for pleasure.
My hope is that true stories (not fictionalized in any way, with KIDS as th eir main characters) may be something that children will read for pleasur e -- and pick up information about the real world in the process. What do y ou think?
Can other readers of this list think of examples of this kind of book for m iddle grade readers? Not historical fiction, not books "based on" a true story, but straight non-fiction that tells a story -- with a child or ch ildren as central characters-- the way a novel does?
Mary Losure author, The Fairy Ring, or Elsie and Frances Fool the World NON fiction, Candlewick, March 2012 A Junior Library Guild Selection www.marylosure.com
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:26:54 -0700 (PDT)
I agree with you that children most enjoy reading about other children in n onfiction as well as fiction.Two of my books fit that category, I think. "The Cat with the Yellow Star: Coming of Age in Terezin," is co-authored with Ela Weissberger and tells of her experiences as an eleven-year-old be ing imprisoned in Terezin Concentration Camp during World War II.My recent title "Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein" is about Lenny's struggles as a boy, then as a teen, to make a career in music despite his father's oppo sition. We intended it as a middle grade book for ages 9 and up but it's al so been designated as a book for older readers. Susan Goldman Rubin
--- On Tue, 3/20/12, Mary Losure wrote:
From: Mary Losure Subject:
Non-fiction for middle-grade readers To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 2:58 PM
Subject: Non-fiction (middle grade): Narrative and information
I think children like to read about other children, which is why they ofte n turn to fiction when reading for pleasure.
My hope is that true stories (not fictionalized in any way, with KIDS as th eir main characters) may be something that children will read for pleasur e -- and pick up information about the real world in the process. What do y ou think?
Can other readers of this list think of examples of this kind of book for m iddle grade readers? Not historical fiction, not books "based on" a true story, but straight non-fiction that tells a story -- with a child or ch ildren as central characters-- the way a novel does?
Mary Losure author, The Fairy Ring, or Elsie and Frances Fool the World NON fiction, Candlewick, March 2012 A Junior Library Guild Selection www.marylosure.com
---Received on Tue 20 Mar 2012 03:26:54 PM CDT
