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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 14:08:02 -0400 (EDT)
To: pubyac-digest@nysernet.org
Subject: pubyac V1 #860
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:36:53 -0700
From: "Diane Adams" <DIANE@monmouth.chemek.cc.or.us>
Subject: Re: Family Friendly Libraries Book Report: Should "Harry
Potter" Go To Public School?
Kirsten, I agree with you. Since when is fantasy reality. Kids
capable of understanding these stories understand they are
fantastical. Yeah, we might daydream a bit and imagine ourselves
in their world, but kids and most adults understand the difference
between a world created for story and reality.
I was speaking with a parent yesterday who didn't understand why
a child would want to read fantasy. She kept saying it wasn't real.
And I made the point "that's true, it isn't and that is why many kids
love it." As a child I struggled and still struggle with much of the
contemporary realism published. I explained that the world of
fantasy allowed me to work through situations and feelings and
such that I couldn't work through in reality and found to close to
reality in contemporary realism. The parent felt better about their
child's reading of fantasy and felt that maybe if they read it too,
opportunities to talk about situations and feelings and such would
occur. I felt good at the end of the conversation and to then read
FFl review of Harry Potter seemed to reiterate that many adults
don't understand one of the values of fantasy and have to try and
make it fit into their world.
Sorry for the ramble.
Diane
Diane Adams Youth Services Librarian
Monmouth Public Library (503) 838-1932
P.O. Box 10 fax: (503) 838-3899
168 Ecols St. S. diane@monmouth.chemek.cc.or.us
Monmouth, OR 97361
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:11:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Serchay <a013213t@bc.seflin.org>
Subject: Re: Goodbye Songs
Well don't tell Disney, but mine is:
Now it's time to say goodbye, 'cause storytime is done
at the L-I-B
I'll be here next week
R-A-R
Are you going to be here?
Y?
It's the Li-brar-y
David
David Serchay
a013213t@bc.seflin.org
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 08:05:58 -0500
From: Nancy Berghoef <holnb@lakeland.lib.mi.us>
Subject: Re: Goodbye Songs
Re: ending song for storyhour: I always start with "If you're happy and you
know it clap your hands..." and end with, "If you
had fun today and you know it clap your hands..." I just do the first verse
each time.
NB
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:41:19 -0400
From: "Swarthmore Public Library" <swcsd@delco.lib.pa.us>
Subject: Re: interfiling j and ya fiction
We have interfiled our J and YA and it has worked perfectly. We are a small
library with no separate space for a YA section. When they were on their
own shelf they were never checked out. Now YA circulates at a very high
rate. We have no way of determining at what age a child is ready to read a
YA book and there is no science to labeling so I think that the interfiling
is fine. Sharon.
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