I have also had students ask "Why are all the award winners sad?"
Marsha Redd
Librarian, Kelloggsville High School
Grand Rapids, MI
marsharedd@hotmail.com
Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student. Everyone
is a teacher.
> Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 10:03:50 -0800
> From: lib027yas@SBCGLOBAL.NET
> Subject: [LM_NET] Share: Award winning books-- boring?
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
> 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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