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From: Linda Stanek <lkstanek1290_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:02:57 -0700 (PDT)
Sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Linda K. Stanek
Beco's Big Year: A Baby Elephant Turns One ISBN-13: 978-0984155439 Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, 2010
The Pig and Miss Prudence ISBN-13: 978
-1-59572-125-9 Star Bright Books, 2007 www.lindakstanek.com
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From: Megan Schliesman
To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:05 AM Subject:
STEM: One Gorilla
We had a book discussion here at the CCBC yesterday and one of the titles (the list was a mix of new picture books and fiction) was Anthony Browne's "One Gorilla: A Counting Book" (U.S. edition: Candlewick Press, 2 013).
When I read it the first thing that struck me was the beauty of his paintings of different kinds of primates. It begins with 1 gorilla. A turn of the page offers 2 orangutans, then 3 chimpanzees .... Finally, we reach 10 lemurs. On every spread, the animals are beautifully rendered wit h exquisitely detailed features. And whether there are 1 or 2 or 10 of t hem, they are all individuals. Not only is there variation in coat color an d facial structure and expression, but wow, there is personality in those e yes!
After "10 lemurs" comes a stunning reveal--at least it was stunning to me. I absolutely did not see it coming, and it was one of those momen ts when a book makes me shiver. And suddenly this became much more than a c ounting book and a book of beautiful primate paintings. It became a book ab out science, too.
Young children, of course, may not have the same sense of excitement I felt at this moment in the book, because the way it shif ts to being something more than a counting book is matter of fact in the na rrative (arresting visually). But we had quite a bit of disagreement at the discussion on whether this shift works. Some of us thought it did , while others thought the turn was drastic and should have been more subtl e, or not there at all.
Personally, I found the fact that humans are another primate is expressed simply and beautifully and accessibly, somethin g many families will appreciate.
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, Universityof Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 5370
Received on Thu 14 Mar 2013 09:02:57 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:02:57 -0700 (PDT)
Sounds awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Linda K. Stanek
Beco's Big Year: A Baby Elephant Turns One ISBN-13: 978-0984155439 Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, 2010
The Pig and Miss Prudence ISBN-13: 978
-1-59572-125-9 Star Bright Books, 2007 www.lindakstanek.com
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From: Megan Schliesman
To: "ccbc-net, Subscribers of" Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 11:05 AM Subject:
STEM: One Gorilla
We had a book discussion here at the CCBC yesterday and one of the titles (the list was a mix of new picture books and fiction) was Anthony Browne's "One Gorilla: A Counting Book" (U.S. edition: Candlewick Press, 2 013).
When I read it the first thing that struck me was the beauty of his paintings of different kinds of primates. It begins with 1 gorilla. A turn of the page offers 2 orangutans, then 3 chimpanzees .... Finally, we reach 10 lemurs. On every spread, the animals are beautifully rendered wit h exquisitely detailed features. And whether there are 1 or 2 or 10 of t hem, they are all individuals. Not only is there variation in coat color an d facial structure and expression, but wow, there is personality in those e yes!
After "10 lemurs" comes a stunning reveal--at least it was stunning to me. I absolutely did not see it coming, and it was one of those momen ts when a book makes me shiver. And suddenly this became much more than a c ounting book and a book of beautiful primate paintings. It became a book ab out science, too.
Young children, of course, may not have the same sense of excitement I felt at this moment in the book, because the way it shif ts to being something more than a counting book is matter of fact in the na rrative (arresting visually). But we had quite a bit of disagreement at the discussion on whether this shift works. Some of us thought it did , while others thought the turn was drastic and should have been more subtl e, or not there at all.
Personally, I found the fact that humans are another primate is expressed simply and beautifully and accessibly, somethin g many families will appreciate.
Megan
-- Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, Universityof Wisconsin-Madison 600 N. Park Street, Room 4290 Madison, WI 5370
Received on Thu 14 Mar 2013 09:02:57 AM CDT
