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Heidi
Unregistered User
(1/2/02 12:21:50 pm)
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Transformations Database
Elise,
I thought I would start another thread for your project since I
imagine discussing it could take a life of its own. Just in case
no one has seen the Transformations database yet, the address is
online.sfsu.edu/~earthman...formations
The database looks wonderful so far. Have you seen Russell Peck's Cinderella Bibliography? It is a gazillion pages long and I have always wished it was in a database to make it easier to search. Hint, hint, hint. : )
The front page to Peck's bib is at:
www.ub.rug.nl/camelot/cinder/cinintr.htm
Thanks for the great work!
Heidi
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eearth
Registered User
(1/2/02 1:11:02 pm)
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Database
Thanks, Heidi, for your kind words. The database grew out of my own teaching interests, and then I began to see it as a great resource for teachers -- if you put "Odyssey" in as a keyword, you'll get a list of 60 or 70 novels, poems, films, etc. that teachers could use to accompany the Odyssey. I've really tried to focus on texts by women and writers of color as well -- I really believe, and have had lots of positive feedback from my *very* multicultural students on this -- that mythology in particular is a living, breathing body of work that surrounds us in our world today, and that it's *very* engaging for them, if we approach it right.
As I said, I'm just working on fairy tales as my next step in the database, so any input anyone has, I'd love to hear suggestions. Also, I'm doing some writing on young adult novels that use classical mythology as subject matter, and if anyone knows of any that have come out in the past year or so (e.g. Adele Geras' "Troy"), could you please tell me?
Thanks,
Elise
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(1/3/02 11:52:23 am)
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Re: Database
Elise,
Are you also going to be adding King Arthur and Robin Hood books? I know there are SO many of those, but there have been some decent additions of late.
Geras' Troy is the best of the Iliad stuff I have read of late. I can't think of anything else I have seen in the new juvie books connected to mythology. I'll have to review my bookorders for the library.
If so, these are some of the more interesting titles of late:
The Seeing Stone (Arthur Trilogy, Book One)
by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Rowan Hood : Outlaw Girl of Sherwood Forest
Juvie Book
by Nancy Springer
I Am Morgan Le Fay : A Tale from Camelot
Juvie Book
by Nancy Springer
Fair Peril (Frog Prince)
Adult Novel
by Nancy Springer
Old title, but thought I would add it while I was pushing Springer's books.
I also enjoyed "he Edge on the Sword"by Rebecca Tingle this past year but it is about "an actual historic figure, the West Saxon King Alfred's oldest child (a daughter), ’thelfl‘d (Amazon).
Heidi
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janeyolen
Unregistered User
(1/3/02 12:01:00 pm)
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myth books
heidi--first I am going to slap your hand for saying "juvies", a term I find offensive--though I know you didn't mean it that way. But it is often used by people to put down children's books.
Second, do you know my Young Heroes series from HarperCollins which I wrote with Robert J. Harris? Book 1 is ODYSSEUS IN THE SERPENT MAZE. And book 2, about to come out any moment, is HIPPOLYTA AND THE CURSE OF THE AMAZONS. Romping adventures with Greek heroes in their teens! Next will be ATALANTA AND THE ACADIAN BEAST. And we are working on #4 which will be JASON, (possible & THE GORGON'S BLOOD.)
Jane
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eearth
Registered User
(1/3/02 1:17:10 pm)
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Jane's books
Yes, Jane -- as a matter of fact I'm waiting for
Amazon to deliver my copy right now. I'm off to a retreat on Monday to do some writing (including a book proposal . . . ) and hope it arrives before then! I look forward to the others, too.
Elise
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