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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse_at_wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:22:07 -0500
I've been away, as well as in-and-out, and so I'm not sure about the CCBC-Net topic at this time. Regardless, I want to underscore everyone else's tributes and memories offered earlier in June. I won't reiterate all the losses here, but each person cited has made a huge difference.
I especially thank George Nicholson for pointing out Rosa Guy's immense impact upon children's and YA books. (see below) During an earlier CCBC-Net discussion someone referred to Guy's novel "The Friends." (Is it time to reprint that trilogy?)
Ray Bradbury's death reminded many of us of "Fahrenheit 451." National obits referred to Bradbury's consistent championing of public libraries. Several years ago I had a small role in the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, all-city "read" of "Fahrenheit 451. The planners staged a well-planned several-week saturation of the community. During the project's launch at the public library, free copies of "Fahrenheit 451" were delivered by a fire truck with its siren turned on. The books were carried into the auditorium by a "book brigade." Probably every time a community chose his book and used a fire truck in a creative way, Ray Bradbury was pleased. Most of all, perhaps, he was gratified that his novel continues to serve as a siren call against the limitation of access to information and to the arts.
Today I read that editor Deborah Brodie died. Others can speak more than I specifically to Deborah's career. I remember her as a welcoming, open person always up for a substantial conversation about books and the book community. Another loss...
Peace, Ginny Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse_at_wisc.edu
On 6/7/2012 9:14 AM, George Nicholson wrote:
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Rosa Guy, one of the earliest successful YA writers and few women of color writing for young people at that time, was born in Trinidad before moving to the United States. Rosa’s energy and sense of the larger world was unusual in those days . She took a joy in writing and presenting her work and she did it with sophistication and aplomb. One of her greatest joys was the successful publication of her novels in Great Britain by her long time publisher Gollancz under the editorship of JoannaGoldsworthy. Rosa always attributed her success there to her immigrant status with Commonwealth roots and the uniqueness of those origins in the Harlem of the forties. I loved her joy, her love of the French language, good food and the small luxuries of life that her success brought her. Her work should be reexamined and republished (even though a couple of novels remain available, though not easily attainable) She is another giant in the recent chain of losses in the world of literature for young people. .
Subject: NY Times link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/books/rosa-guy-89-author-of-forthright-novels-for-young-people.html?_r=1 ref=obituaries
Received on Thu 28 Jun 2012 04:22:07 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:22:07 -0500
I've been away, as well as in-and-out, and so I'm not sure about the CCBC-Net topic at this time. Regardless, I want to underscore everyone else's tributes and memories offered earlier in June. I won't reiterate all the losses here, but each person cited has made a huge difference.
I especially thank George Nicholson for pointing out Rosa Guy's immense impact upon children's and YA books. (see below) During an earlier CCBC-Net discussion someone referred to Guy's novel "The Friends." (Is it time to reprint that trilogy?)
Ray Bradbury's death reminded many of us of "Fahrenheit 451." National obits referred to Bradbury's consistent championing of public libraries. Several years ago I had a small role in the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, all-city "read" of "Fahrenheit 451. The planners staged a well-planned several-week saturation of the community. During the project's launch at the public library, free copies of "Fahrenheit 451" were delivered by a fire truck with its siren turned on. The books were carried into the auditorium by a "book brigade." Probably every time a community chose his book and used a fire truck in a creative way, Ray Bradbury was pleased. Most of all, perhaps, he was gratified that his novel continues to serve as a siren call against the limitation of access to information and to the arts.
Today I read that editor Deborah Brodie died. Others can speak more than I specifically to Deborah's career. I remember her as a welcoming, open person always up for a substantial conversation about books and the book community. Another loss...
Peace, Ginny Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse_at_wisc.edu
On 6/7/2012 9:14 AM, George Nicholson wrote:
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Rosa Guy, one of the earliest successful YA writers and few women of color writing for young people at that time, was born in Trinidad before moving to the United States. Rosa’s energy and sense of the larger world was unusual in those days . She took a joy in writing and presenting her work and she did it with sophistication and aplomb. One of her greatest joys was the successful publication of her novels in Great Britain by her long time publisher Gollancz under the editorship of JoannaGoldsworthy. Rosa always attributed her success there to her immigrant status with Commonwealth roots and the uniqueness of those origins in the Harlem of the forties. I loved her joy, her love of the French language, good food and the small luxuries of life that her success brought her. Her work should be reexamined and republished (even though a couple of novels remain available, though not easily attainable) She is another giant in the recent chain of losses in the world of literature for young people. .
Subject: NY Times link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/07/books/rosa-guy-89-author-of-forthright-novels-for-young-people.html?_r=1 ref=obituaries
Received on Thu 28 Jun 2012 04:22:07 PM CDT
