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From: janeyolen_at_aol.com
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:10:08 -0500 (EST)
I know that Tallchief book. (She once hung her practice tutu on my locker- -yes, I was and am a fan girl!) But that's my point. One book. Surely the m ost important Native American ballerina. . .should have more than one book.
Jane
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From: Amy Goldschlager To: ccbc-net Sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 9:04 Subject: Re:
ccbc-net digest: November 08, 2012
Actually, Rosemary Wells, with the assistance of Maria Tallchief, wrote a p icture book about the ballerina, published by Dial Books for Young Readers in 1999 when Phyllis Fogelman was running the imprint (and I worked for Phy llis).
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 hi storical fiction on poetry-as-history) if it isn't tied directly into the c urriculum and so we narrow what children and YA's get to learn. There are h undreds 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 abo ut 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 re cent wonderful picture book about Jane Goodall's early life, sneak through and explode onto the world stage. But they are the exception. And exception ally well done.
Jane
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 09:10:08 -0500 (EST)
I know that Tallchief book. (She once hung her practice tutu on my locker- -yes, I was and am a fan girl!) But that's my point. One book. Surely the m ost important Native American ballerina. . .should have more than one book.
Jane
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From: Amy Goldschlager To: ccbc-net Sent: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 9:04 Subject: Re:
ccbc-net digest: November 08, 2012
Actually, Rosemary Wells, with the assistance of Maria Tallchief, wrote a p icture book about the ballerina, published by Dial Books for Young Readers in 1999 when Phyllis Fogelman was running the imprint (and I worked for Phy llis).
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 hi storical fiction on poetry-as-history) if it isn't tied directly into the c urriculum and so we narrow what children and YA's get to learn. There are h undreds 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 abo ut 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 re cent wonderful picture book about Jane Goodall's early life, sneak through and explode onto the world stage. But they are the exception. And exception ally well done.
Jane
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