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From: Amy Goldschlager <amyg_at_nyc.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:04:09 -0500
Actually, Rosemary Wells, with the assistance of Maria Tallchief, wrote a picture book about the ballerina, published by Dial Books for Young Readers in 1999 when Phyllis Fogelman was running the imprint (and I worked for Phyllis).
Amy Goldschlager Editor, Reviewer
On Nov 9, 2012, at 8:47 AM, JaneYolen_at_aol.com wrote:
It's hard to get large publishers to want to publish any nonfiction (or historical fiction on poetry-as-history) if it isn't tied directly into the curriculum and so we narrow what children and YA's get to learn. There are hundreds of books about Lincoln, Washington, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., but harder to find a book from major publishers about, say, John Muir or Maria Tallchief or Marc Chagall (Pat Lewis and I did a book of poems about Chagall for Creative Editions, and they do gorgeous books but are a tiny, boutique publisher).
It's all about sales and money. After all, publishers are in business to.. .stay in business. And writers have to eat! Sometimes, though, a book like BALLOONS OVER BROADWAY (about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade) or the recent wonderful picture book about Jane Goodall's early life, sneak through and explode onto the world stage. But they are the exception. And exceptionally well done.
Jane
Received on Fri 09 Nov 2012 09:04:09 AM CST
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:04:09 -0500
Actually, Rosemary Wells, with the assistance of Maria Tallchief, wrote a picture book about the ballerina, published by Dial Books for Young Readers in 1999 when Phyllis Fogelman was running the imprint (and I worked for Phyllis).
Amy Goldschlager Editor, Reviewer
On Nov 9, 2012, at 8:47 AM, JaneYolen_at_aol.com wrote:
It's hard to get large publishers to want to publish any nonfiction (or historical fiction on poetry-as-history) if it isn't tied directly into the curriculum and so we narrow what children and YA's get to learn. There are hundreds of books about Lincoln, Washington, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., but harder to find a book from major publishers about, say, John Muir or Maria Tallchief or Marc Chagall (Pat Lewis and I did a book of poems about Chagall for Creative Editions, and they do gorgeous books but are a tiny, boutique publisher).
It's all about sales and money. After all, publishers are in business to.. .stay in business. And writers have to eat! Sometimes, though, a book like BALLOONS OVER BROADWAY (about the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade) or the recent wonderful picture book about Jane Goodall's early life, sneak through and explode onto the world stage. But they are the exception. And exceptionally well done.
Jane
Received on Fri 09 Nov 2012 09:04:09 AM CST
