From: Killeen3 <killeen3_at_aol.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:06:46 -0500 (EST)

I would find it most interesting if we could discuss the other big censor-prone topic in literature for children -- Religion. Characters with strong religious beliefs demonstrated or prejudice exhibited or approaches to spiritualism. In the public schools it is always a delecate balance and I found it fascinating to provide for a variety of beliefs with reliable, authentic voices!


Erlene Bishop Killeen killeen3_at_aol.com




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CCBC-NET Digest for Tuesday, January 07, 2014.

1. CCBC-Net Moving Forward 2. TOPICS - 2014 3. Re: Sharing thoughts

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Subject: CCBC-Net Moving Forward From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 09:43:47 -0600 X-Message-Number: 1

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Dear CCBC-Net Community,

We've been thinking of ways to make CCBC-Net more relevant and substantial in a world that has changed significantly in terms of the ways we communicate around books. When the CCBC-Net listserv began eighteen years ago, in 1995, there were no blogs or Twitter. No Facebook or other social media. Even listservs were relatively new.


We've decided to try something new for 2014. Well, new and old. We want to reaffirmCCBC-Net as a place for meaningful discussion on issues related to children's and young adult literature, focusing on current trends and substantial topics.But we also want to make book discussion, which has always been a core element of what we do at the CCBC, both formally and informally, a regular part of CCBC-Net.To that end, we have decided to try pairing a discussion topic the first part of each month with discussion of specific books that connect to that topic in the second part of the month. (We will continue to keep the early days of each month an open announcement period.)


We'd like the discussion in January to focus on your thoughts and ideas relating to this.What are issues you wish you could explore deeply though constructive exchange?Are there books that exemplify questions you have or things you've noticed?

We have outlined discussion topics for the first half of 2014 after January as follows. Books will be announced two months in advance of the discussion (so books for February and March are listed):


*January: Share Your Thoughts on Topics and Trends for Future CCBC-Net Discussions* (Discussion book ideas welcome, too!)

*February: **Multicultural Literature Beyond the Numbers*

Discussion Books: *

/If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth/(Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, 2013)

/How I Became a Ghost://A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story /by Tim Tingle

(Roadrunner Press, 2013)

***We will be incorporating multicultural literature into discussions throughout the year

*March:**Back to /Forever /and Beyond: Looking at Sex in Young Adult Literature *

**Discussion Books:

/The Summer Prince/by Alaya Dawn Johnson (Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic Inc., 2013)

/The F* It List/byJulie Halpern (Feiwel and Friends, 2013)

* April: ****Trends in Poetry*

*May:****GLBTQ: Expanding Body of Literature for Teens but Where are the Books for Children?*

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*June:** Non-Fiction: Will Common Core Make a Difference in Trade Publishing?*


On behalf of all of us at the CCBC, I wish you a great start to the new year!

Megan

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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/
My regular hours are T-F, 8-4:30.
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Subject: TOPICS - 2014
From: Lbhcove_at_aol.com
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:00:58 -0500 (EST)
X-Message-Number: 2
I am very happy to see Poetry will be a topic this coming April.  Once  
again poetry has become a hard sell to most publishers.  Anthologies are  
disappearing; only two were published in 2013; two or three are scheduled  for 
2014.
 
A trend among editors is for all poetry books to be themed.  Where  is the 
room for
poet's poems?  Why shouldn't there be a book of poems about a fawn, a  
flashlight,
a fossil, a friend -- all found within one book, by one voice?
 
Past poets did it:  Livingston, Worth, Merriam, et. al.  We need  new 
voices.
 
This is a sad commentary that indeed needs discussing.
 
Lee Bennett Hopkins
 
Visit  my site:
_www.leebennetthopkins.com_ (http://www.leebennetthopkins.com/) 
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Subject: Re: Sharing thoughts
From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:41:35 -0600
X-Message-Number: 3
Lisa Von Drasek asked:
"Will the discussion be structured so that it only books on the table or 
will we be bringing other books by those authors into it through 
comments identifying intertextual connections...fIs a month a long time 
to discuss two books?.... Would we ask the authors to visit the last 
week of the month?"
The book discussions will take place the second part of the month, so 
won't be month-long, and yes, where possible, we are hoping to have 
authors join us.
One of our goals in announcing books ahead of time is that we want 
people who are interested to have a chance to seek out and read the 
selected books so that we can have substantive discussion on the titles 
themselves. The way we think about it at the in-person discussions at 
the CCBC is that the books on the list / table are the books we as a 
group have in common, and at those discsussions we stay focused on those 
books--it challenges us all to dig deeper regarding our thoughts about 
those titles, rather than moving away from them by bringing in other 
books to talk about. Here on CCBC-Net, the books we announce are the 
books on our virtual table that we have in common.
However, yes to the value of intertextual connections! Perhaps we can 
open the discussion to additional book ideas--by the same author and 
beyond those authors--as the discussion on the books themselves wind 
down. We don't want to make it too rigid; and of course there will be 
flow and experimentation to how this works. On the the other hand, we do 
want to try to encourage deep discussion of the selected titles.
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/
My regular hours are T-F, 8-4:30.
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