Oh, yes Peter! Skippyjon won the Washington Children's Choice Picture
Book award in 2005. It is truly delightful; unfortunately we had some
teachers and librarians who over-reacted and thought it was
derogatory to our Hispanics so there was quite a discussion about
this. My experience was that the Hispanic children LOVED it. It is
unfortunate that sometimes adults try to put too much into something
that kids enjoy and take at face value. Made me think of the
controversy years about over Maurice Sendak's classic of Where the
wild things are.
Since you a high school librarian your grandson will have lots to
share with you...and then you can return the favor when he is older!
Best to you!
Barb
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Barb Engvall
=^..^=
Teacher-Librarian
John Campbell Elem
Selah, WA
macbarb@charter.net
http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/JC/jc.cfm
On Oct 3, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Peter Milbury wrote:
> Dear LM_NET Colleagues,
>
> I was recently exposed (by my first-grader grandson) to one of the
> cutest
> series of books I have seen for primary grades (and above): the
> Skippyjon
> Jones books: by Judy Schachner.
>
> Skippyjon Jones is a persian cat who thinks he is a chihuahua-- and
> he is
> an all-around rebel and freethinker to boot! The illustrations are
> terminally cute, and the story lines are wild and rambunctious.
>
> Are many of you finding that the Skippyjon Jones is as captivating to
> children as they are to my grandson?
>
> Peter Milbury, LM_NET Co-Moderator pmilbury@iis.syr.edu
> School Librarian/CA TeleMentor, Chico HS, Chico, CA
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