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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:47:44 -0500
Maryann's comments on the value of author/illustrator notes is something I agree with completely. When my CCBC colleague Merri Lindgren and I do booktalks for librarians and teachers, it often becomes a running joke, how often we reference--and go on about--the author or illustrator notes.
In fact, we recently developed a bibliography here at the CCBC with this as one of the essential elements:
Between Fact and Fiction: Selected K-5 Books about History to Encourage Critical Reading/Thinking:
An ALSC blog post back in August by author Don Tate about his wonderful book "It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw" (illustratred by R. Gregory Christie) was something I read with great delight and a little regret. Delight because it's wonderfully informative and insightful. Regret because how I wish all of that had been included in an author's note at the end of the book. (There is an author's note and illustrator's note, just not as detailed as the information in the post.)
Here is that post--definitely worth the time of adults and young readers!
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 Thu 18 Oct 2012 10:47:44 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:47:44 -0500
Maryann's comments on the value of author/illustrator notes is something I agree with completely. When my CCBC colleague Merri Lindgren and I do booktalks for librarians and teachers, it often becomes a running joke, how often we reference--and go on about--the author or illustrator notes.
In fact, we recently developed a bibliography here at the CCBC with this as one of the essential elements:
Between Fact and Fiction: Selected K-5 Books about History to Encourage Critical Reading/Thinking:
An ALSC blog post back in August by author Don Tate about his wonderful book "It Jes' Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw" (illustratred by R. Gregory Christie) was something I read with great delight and a little regret. Delight because it's wonderfully informative and insightful. Regret because how I wish all of that had been included in an author's note at the end of the book. (There is an author's note and illustrator's note, just not as detailed as the information in the post.)
Here is that post--definitely worth the time of adults and young readers!
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 Thu 18 Oct 2012 10:47:44 AM CDT
