Did You Know?
October 01, 2006
Philip Reeve won the Guardian children's fiction prize for his novel Darkling Plain.
The exhibit "Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic" is on display at the New Britain (CT) Museum of American Art through November 26th. (Walter Wick is the I Spy photographer.)
Also in Connecticut, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum presents an educator's workshop on new approaches to Thanksgiving & Native people of New England; one of the speakers is Doris Seale, an editor of the book Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children. October 14th, from 10 to 4.
Anne Boles Levy launched an informative conversation about Jewish books when she reviewed Laurie Jacobs's A Box of Candles at Book Buds.
Child_Lit-ster Monica Edinger started a blog, Educating Alice. (The listserv Child_lit is a lively email discussion group that centers on books for children and tilts toward the academic. Michael Joseph runs it out of Rutgers University.)
The picture book A House for Hermit Crab, by Eric Carle, is now also a ballet. You can see it at the Eric Carle Museum, Amherst, Mass., starting October 7th.
The wonderful actress Kathleen Chalfant stars in TheatreWorks USA's production of "Great Expectations," beginning November 8th at New York's Lucille Lortel Theater. This is a new adaptation, written by Bathsheba Doran, and Chalfant's presence in the play should make it worth seeking out for all theater buffs, even the grown-ups. Chalfant was in "Wit" and "Angels in America," among other dramas.
There's one more week to catch "The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963" at the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis. Kevin Willmott adapted the play from Christopher Paul Curtis's young-adult novel; it's scheduled to close on October 7th. The Saint Paul Pioneer-Press said, " 'Watsons' never preaches at us, and while it consistently entertains, it never fails to educate. To challenge. Or to inspire."
Many thanks for the link. There's more to come on the subject of Jewish kiddie lit, if I find the time to do the post!
Posted by: Anne | October 04, 2006 at 04:14 PM
Great, Anne!
Posted by: Susan | October 04, 2006 at 06:59 PM