Re: [LM_NET] Share: Award winning books-- boring?

[Thomas Kaun <tomkaun@GMAIL.COM>]

Interesting insight, Darlene. "Out of the mouths of babes..."
You said: "What does that say about the awards, who selects them and about
keeping books around just because they won an award in 1970 !?" Probably
about the same thing that an adult novel which won the Pulitzer Prize in
1937. All materials should be judged on their own merits. That means some
books, which become "classics," continue in the collection even if they are
old but awards do not a classic make!
Tom Kaun

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On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Darlene Yasick <lib027yas@sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Thoight I'd share this:
> My granddaughter (9) came to me with a book last night and said she didn't
> want to read it because it looked boring and I could have it. I asked her
> where she got it from and was told that one day when she was absent they got
> RIF books and someone picked this one out for her but the cover just looked
> too boring. It's a Betsy Byars book and the cover has two kids (dated
> looking) looking at a pool with a swan in it. She pulled out other books she
> had received for Christmas or picked herself to show me interesting covers (
> She is an avid and above grade level reader).
>
> I noticed that there was an award medal on the cover ( Newbery) and pointed
> out that the book had won an award. From the other room my 12yr old grandson
> chimed in with " if it won an award, it probably is boring!" ( not a reader
> unless you hook him!) Hum? What does that say about the awards, who selects
> them and about keeping books around just because they won an award in 1970
> !?
>
> Darlene Yasick
> Retired LMS
> Wyoming, MI
>
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