CCBC - Net Topics
July
First Two Weeks: Everybody’s Talkin’: Books and Blogs. Do you frequent Fuse 8? Read Roger? Weigh in on Editorial Anonymous? Visit Worth the Trip? During the first two weeks in June, we invite members of the CCBC-Net community to share the children’s and young adult literature-related blogs they find most insightful, informative, distinctive, or entertaining. Tell us about the children's and young adult literature blogs you make it a point to read. And tell us whether you think blogs are playing a significant role in the critical assessment and understanding of children’s and young adult literature today.
Second Two Weeks: Minders of Make-Believe: Publishing for Children
in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Children’s literature historian Leonard S. Marcus will
join us during the second half of July on CCBC-Net. His new book Minders
of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American
Children’s
Literature (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) looks at the significant titles, trends,
and personalities in children’s literature in the United States in
the twentieth century. Our CCBC-Net discussion will focus in particular
on children’s publishing in the latter half of the twentieth century—where
have we been and where do you think we are going in terms of milestones
and markers of change.
August:
On Vacation. Martha the talking dog and her family are off to a
seaside resort where there are “no dogs allowed” in Martha
Calling by
Susan Meddaugh. Another Martha’s trip to the sea marks a summer of
awakenings in Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes. The old family
farm where her father sees “happy memories everywhere” is at
first full of nothing but “old furniture and dust” for the
narrator of Lynne Rae Perkins’ Pictures from Our Vacation. And in The
Boggart by Susan Cooper, a family’s brief trip to Scotland to sort
out their inheritance leads to an unintentional—and unwanted—vacation
for a mischievous creature they accidentally ship back home. During
the first half of July, tells us about your favorite books for
youth in which “on
vacation” is the starting point for adventure, whimsy, insight, and
even lasting change in the lives of their characters.
See a listing of past CCBC-Net discussion topics
