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From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:11:12 -0400 (EDT)
Here is a question on NF that Jonathan Hunt raised at ALA annual a couple of years ago -- which seems a perfect lead into the topic set before us:
Every single person on this listserv knows how popular Books of Records/ Weird and Wacky facts are for kids in elementary and even middle school. And it is no surprise to say that many of those passionate readers are boys. And yet everyone on this listserv has also attended, spoken at, or hosted discussions of the "problem" of "boys and reading." So what happens? Where does that reading passion go? What can we do to capture the attention of those readers? Especially because, as adults, those same grown-up-boys are passionate players of fantasy sports games which essentially consist of comparing and contrasting stats, records. So we know this avid reading style endures.
Jonathan thought that perhaps the fast-paced narrative nonfiction might due the trick -- the Bomb, Chasing Lincoln's Killer, kind of page-turner. But one of my grad students pointed out that as appealing as those books are, their claim to fame is that they "read like a novel" -- which is more appealing for the early fiction reader than the early fact-compiler. For a time, publishers thought they needed to make books shorter, more photographic, with larger type and less text. But that is exactly the opposite direction from the mandates of the Common Core standards and indeed life.
So what bridge can we offer to Books of Records fans? Infographics? Maps? Gaming? We all know those eager readers are there -- what do we have to offer them as a stretch, a "next" book?
Marc Aronson
-----Original Message----- From: Merri Lindgren <mlindgren_at_education.wisc.edu> To: ccbc-net <ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu> Sent: Mon, Jun 2, 2014 11:00 am Subject: [ccbc-net] Wrapping up May
Thanks to everyone who joined in May's discussion of Transgender and Gender Non-Conformity in Books for Children and Teens. Special thanks to authors Christine Baldacchino, Sarah and Ian Hoffman, and Susan Kuklin for their participation and thoughtful responses to our questions.
We invite you to take the first few days of June to make general announcements on CCBC-Net before we move to our new topic: Non-Fiction: Meeting the Needs of Standards, Engaging Children and Teens.
Merri
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 08:11:12 -0400 (EDT)
Here is a question on NF that Jonathan Hunt raised at ALA annual a couple of years ago -- which seems a perfect lead into the topic set before us:
Every single person on this listserv knows how popular Books of Records/ Weird and Wacky facts are for kids in elementary and even middle school. And it is no surprise to say that many of those passionate readers are boys. And yet everyone on this listserv has also attended, spoken at, or hosted discussions of the "problem" of "boys and reading." So what happens? Where does that reading passion go? What can we do to capture the attention of those readers? Especially because, as adults, those same grown-up-boys are passionate players of fantasy sports games which essentially consist of comparing and contrasting stats, records. So we know this avid reading style endures.
Jonathan thought that perhaps the fast-paced narrative nonfiction might due the trick -- the Bomb, Chasing Lincoln's Killer, kind of page-turner. But one of my grad students pointed out that as appealing as those books are, their claim to fame is that they "read like a novel" -- which is more appealing for the early fiction reader than the early fact-compiler. For a time, publishers thought they needed to make books shorter, more photographic, with larger type and less text. But that is exactly the opposite direction from the mandates of the Common Core standards and indeed life.
So what bridge can we offer to Books of Records fans? Infographics? Maps? Gaming? We all know those eager readers are there -- what do we have to offer them as a stretch, a "next" book?
Marc Aronson
-----Original Message----- From: Merri Lindgren <mlindgren_at_education.wisc.edu> To: ccbc-net <ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu> Sent: Mon, Jun 2, 2014 11:00 am Subject: [ccbc-net] Wrapping up May
Thanks to everyone who joined in May's discussion of Transgender and Gender Non-Conformity in Books for Children and Teens. Special thanks to authors Christine Baldacchino, Sarah and Ian Hoffman, and Susan Kuklin for their participation and thoughtful responses to our questions.
We invite you to take the first few days of June to make general announcements on CCBC-Net before we move to our new topic: Non-Fiction: Meeting the Needs of Standards, Engaging Children and Teens.
Merri
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