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Laura
McCaffrey
Registered User
(7/5/02 3:33:54 pm)
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Illustration exhibits and article of interest
Hey all -
In case you're interested - PW online (the free part, not the subscription part) has a short announcement about some illustration exhibits in England. I know some of you might actually be traveling that way so thought this might interest you. I can't post a link because the web address is so long I'm not sure it would work. The name of the small article is "Celebrating Children's Books," by Julia Eccleshare -- 7/1/2002.
Also, for those interested, there's an article in the May 2002 issue of _School Library Journal_ , pp. 38-39, entitled "Retelling Myths for Children: A Teacher Muses on Truth, Lies, and Reductions," by Patricia Lothrop-Green. Ms. Lothrop-Green discusses adapting myths for child readers and the danger of simplifying these old tales so that they lack any of their original meanings.
Laura Mc
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Jane Yolen
Unregistered User
(7/6/02 3:27:17 am)
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I would love to see that article. Any chance of getting a copy?
Jane
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Laura
McCaffrey
Registered User
(7/6/02 9:31:58 am)
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Re: ????
Hey Jane -
I read the article in a print version of SLJ (I'm assuming you meant you wanted a copy of "Retelling Myths for Children," not the PW snippet), but I did a little research today and it's available for free at
slj.reviewsnews.com/index...ts&stt=001
I can't test the link until I post, so hope this works.
Laura Mc
PS - the link should work! And here's the link to the PW article about illustration exhibits in England, too.
publishersweekly.reviewsn...icalid=127
Edited by: Laura McCaffrey at: 7/6/02 9:35:26 am
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Jane Yolen
Unregistered User
(7/6/02 1:36:58 pm)
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Thanks
Thanks--I read it with interest. But what she never wrestles with is the mutability of the "original" stories, already enormously retold, restructured, rewritten, re-sung, and restrung on the individual teller's own neck. To suggest that there is only one way the story goes, one way it can be interpreted, leaves her open to much criticism.
Even Ovid and Homer and the rest were retelling stories long tongue-polished, misheard, misrepresented, and re-invented.
Jane
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Laura
McCaffrey
Registered User
(7/6/02 4:18:04 pm)
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Re: Thanks
Jane,
I agree.
I also found it interesting that she thought it acceptable to make the male heros into super-hero types, with little moral complexity, in retellings for children. She seemed to argue that children should learn their names and exploits, and that this was much more important than learning the many-layered complexity of the tales and characters. Certainly she wanted children to learn more of the story as they aged and matured, but still, I'm not sure I accept the importance of name-recognition argument.
Anyway, more food for thought.
Laura Mc
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