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From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:52:00 -0500
It's time to start our discussion for the first part of June:
*Keep Them Laughing: More on Humor.* Chris Monroe's new picture book /Cookie the Walker /(Carolrhoda, 2013) has us thinking more about what's funny, a discussion we began in February when we talked about humor in multicultural literature. From an outrageous premise spun into delight to authors and illustrators adept at finding humor in situations both likely and unlikely, humor can be broad in appeal and yet so specific when it comes to individual taste.
One of the things we always love seeing here at the CCBC are funny y.a. books. So much y.a. lit is not funny (and isn't trying to be), so books that can capture dimensions of the adolescent experience with tongue in cheek, or both humor and heart, stand out from the crowd. One example from last year that we greatly appreciated is "Me, Earl and the Dying Girl" by Jesse Andrews (Amulet / Abrams, 2012). This year, a stand-out for me so far is "Openly Straight" by Bill Konigsberg (Arthur A. Levine Book / Scholastic, 2013).
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 06 Jun 2013 09:52:00 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:52:00 -0500
It's time to start our discussion for the first part of June:
*Keep Them Laughing: More on Humor.* Chris Monroe's new picture book /Cookie the Walker /(Carolrhoda, 2013) has us thinking more about what's funny, a discussion we began in February when we talked about humor in multicultural literature. From an outrageous premise spun into delight to authors and illustrators adept at finding humor in situations both likely and unlikely, humor can be broad in appeal and yet so specific when it comes to individual taste.
One of the things we always love seeing here at the CCBC are funny y.a. books. So much y.a. lit is not funny (and isn't trying to be), so books that can capture dimensions of the adolescent experience with tongue in cheek, or both humor and heart, stand out from the crowd. One example from last year that we greatly appreciated is "Me, Earl and the Dying Girl" by Jesse Andrews (Amulet / Abrams, 2012). This year, a stand-out for me so far is "Openly Straight" by Bill Konigsberg (Arthur A. Levine Book / Scholastic, 2013).
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 06 Jun 2013 09:52:00 AM CDT
