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From: Emily Townsend <etownsend_at_wisc.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:56:22 -0500
Hi Susan,
I'm interested in your images of technology use throughout the book. First, I feel like it is very well done -- consistent appearances of different types of technology and various levels, purposes and places of use. I first read this inclusion of technology as a way to update the traditional story on which the book is based.
Once I read your discussion of the process of illustrating /Little Roja Riding Hood/ on the CCBC web page, Sketches/Studies for /Little Roja Riding Hood/ <http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/ccbcnet/roja.asp>, I began to rethink my first visual reading of the book. You write about setting the story in NM and the dichotomies you find inherent in the area:
"I wanted to show some of that complex dichotomy found here. I wanted to show the astounding beauty of a landscape that is inherently harsh. I wanted to show the harsh and also reverent personalities that have been here many generations."
On a second reading, I began to suspect that the images of technology and technology use supply much more meaning than a mere update. For instance, on my first reading of the book, my mind didn't even registered the ATV that Roja rides through the woods to grandmother's house. The ATV seems easily integrated into the surrounding landscape. Also, I was particularly struck by the two-page illustration of the grandmother checking her security system in her El Rito-styled home with the santo of Santo Niņo de Atoche in a nicho, Black-eyed Susans, and laptop in the background. This image seems to bring technology, tradition, religion, modernity, and more into one image. I'm wondering if these illustrations and others with technology use in the book reveal more of those complex dichotomies you refer to in your discussion of your illustrations for the book. If so, can you tell us more about this?
Thanks!
Emily Townsend, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room 401 Teacher Education 225 N. Mills Street Madison, WI 53706
608-890-0258 etownsend_at_wisc.edu
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Received on Wed 24 Sep 2014 11:56:50 AM CDT
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:56:22 -0500
Hi Susan,
I'm interested in your images of technology use throughout the book. First, I feel like it is very well done -- consistent appearances of different types of technology and various levels, purposes and places of use. I first read this inclusion of technology as a way to update the traditional story on which the book is based.
Once I read your discussion of the process of illustrating /Little Roja Riding Hood/ on the CCBC web page, Sketches/Studies for /Little Roja Riding Hood/ <http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/ccbcnet/roja.asp>, I began to rethink my first visual reading of the book. You write about setting the story in NM and the dichotomies you find inherent in the area:
"I wanted to show some of that complex dichotomy found here. I wanted to show the astounding beauty of a landscape that is inherently harsh. I wanted to show the harsh and also reverent personalities that have been here many generations."
On a second reading, I began to suspect that the images of technology and technology use supply much more meaning than a mere update. For instance, on my first reading of the book, my mind didn't even registered the ATV that Roja rides through the woods to grandmother's house. The ATV seems easily integrated into the surrounding landscape. Also, I was particularly struck by the two-page illustration of the grandmother checking her security system in her El Rito-styled home with the santo of Santo Niņo de Atoche in a nicho, Black-eyed Susans, and laptop in the background. This image seems to bring technology, tradition, religion, modernity, and more into one image. I'm wondering if these illustrations and others with technology use in the book reveal more of those complex dichotomies you refer to in your discussion of your illustrations for the book. If so, can you tell us more about this?
Thanks!
Emily Townsend, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room 401 Teacher Education 225 N. Mills Street Madison, WI 53706
608-890-0258 etownsend_at_wisc.edu
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