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TAS E-NEWS the Children’S Book Council of Australia (Tasmanian Branch) Inc TAS e-NEWS The Children’s Book Council of Australia (Tasmanian Branch) Inc. Issue 3: June 2013 Patron: Mrs Frances Underwood PO Box 113, Moonah, Tas, 7009 - email: [email protected] web: www.cbcatas.org – blog: http://cbcatas.blogspot.com/ Editor: Penny Garnsworthy From the President Welcome to the June newsletter! Our Tasmanian judge on the book of the year awards, Lyndon Riggall has decided that he cannot continue for the second year of his two year appointment. This is really sad as Lyndon fulfilled the role to perfection and as a young male certainly differed from the usual profile of judges. Lyndon made three presentations on the Short List and Notable Books around the state – Launceston, Hobart and Devonport. Those who attended were treated to one of the best presentations I have seen for a long time. It is sad not more attended but that is the way of the world or at I least tell myself it is. I admire the way Lyndon has conducted himself doing the almost overwhelming job of reading and judging so many books, and doing it so well. I am sure everyone will join with me in thanking him and wishing him well in the future. Lyndon’s resignation was not without some drama as the rules mean that any replacement can only judge for the remainder of the two year term. As the boxes of books are already arriving there was very little time to find a replacement. Member, Tehani Wessely, had been a West Australian judge and had to cut her term short because of her move to Tasmania. Tehani agreed and the National Board approved her completing Lyndon’s term. I believe that, with her experience as a CBCA judge and an Aurealis judge and coordinator, Tehani is an excellent choice. To celebrate Book Week there will be a reception at Government House on Monday 18 August 2013. More news on this later! Richard Pickup, President What’s Inside this Issue Topic Page Topic Page From the President 1 Nella’s Book Reviews 11 From the CBCA Tas. Judge 2 Resources 12 Visual Spatial Learning and children’s books 3 From the Editor 12 CBCA Tas. Out and About 5 Literary Days 13 Will you be our next CBCA Tas. Judge? 5 Dates for your Diary / New Members 14 Congratulations! 7 CBCA Tas. Membership Form (att.) In Memory of 11 Reading Time Application (att.) CBCA Tasmanian Branch Newsletter No. 3, 2013 Page 1 From the CBCA Tas. Judge Although many of you will have heard through various announcements, it is not without some reluctance that I type the words: I am retiring from judging. 2012 was the busiest year of my life so far without any reasonable competition: thesis, artist in residence program, and a box of books arriving every other week. I’ve been busy, but I’ve also been learning. Learning about life, learning about writing, learning about books. It wasn’t a simple decision to make. I started studying teaching earlier this year and immediately realised that an immediate return to academia was a mistake. I love learning, but the essays, tests and exams can wait. My friends have scattered across the country and the world, and I’d love to be able to visit them without rushing home to do more reading and reporting. Outside of that I am playing a young Ray Bradbury, taking little bits of work when I can get them, writing stories and living in libraries. I have loved being a judge, particularly in the last few months of the silence breaking. This is where I’m most comfortable – sharing the tales I love and getting excited about them. Meeting my coordinators and the other judges has been special - missing out on five days next year with such fun and literate people is my saddest loss. I would like to thank all of you for your support over this intense year. It has been a really exciting opportunity for me to be involved, and I hope I’ve done you all justice. I take comfort in the fact that I leave you in the hands of Tehani Wessely, who is dedicated, brilliant, and who I’m sure will take up my pet cause of making sure that speculative offerings don’t slip through the cracks! I’ll be taking some time off to read a good book. This time, I choose! Lyndon Riggall Event: Read for Australia As part of this year’s National Literacy and Numeracy Week, Read for Australia will be held on Wednesday 31 July at 2.00pm (AEST). Teachers and students in schools across the country are invited to participate in a mass simultaneous read of the Read for Australia selected book Herman and Rosie by Gus Green . Set in New York, the story is about friendship, music and following your dreams. Gus Green who was originally from Northern NSW spent many years working on cattle stations around Australia before pursuing a drawing career. Since illustrating his first children’s book in 1996 he has written and illustrated over 70 books for children. For more information about Read for Australia and how you can get involved, go to: www.literacyandnumeracy.gov.au/national-celebration-literacy/read-australia ‘She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be - she was a librarian, after all.’ ~ Sarah Beth Durst CBCA Tasmanian Branch Newsletter No. 3, 2013 Page 2 Visual Spatial Learning and Modern Children’s Books by Andrea Potter Children today are different to what children were like when we were young, and this needs to be taken into account when creating and choosing children’s books. Children are increasingly becoming Visual Spatial Learners (VSLs) due to abundant exposure to images on computers and television. This high level of exposure to images is stimulating their brains and helping children create new thinking pathways. This is a wonderful opportunity for educators who can take advantage of images to help children to learn faster and more deeply. I am an illustrator, artist and art teacher and I am very aware that I learn very differently to most people my age. People in their 40s and older are more likely to be Auditory Sequential Learners than VSLs. Auditory Sequential Learners are more likely to learn phonetically and with information presented in sequence. VSLs are more likely to learn using imagery and imagination. How does this impact upon the modern children’s book? Books for upper primary children have fewer illustrations than books for younger children. I wonder if this may correlate with children’s waning interest in reading as they get older. It would be understandable to think that older children no longer need pictures and this may be true, but illustrations stimulate their brains differently to text. I believe that books filled with images will keep these VSL children interested in reading for longer. We only have to look at how children love books by Andy Griffith and Terry Denton to see a good example of how this works. The images and text works together to create something larger than the sum of the parts. The images and text are interconnected and this stimulates more areas of the brain. This does not mean that I think that all comics, or all illustration rich books, are good books. I believe that good quality books, full of images, are more likely to keep children reading, especially if they are about a topic that interests the child. I do love comics and graphic novels but there are a lot of them that don’t have good images and if the images are not stimulating I don’t feel inclined to read them. So quality is still the key. As a VSL myself, I notice I learn much faster when I can see the big picture first and can see the benefit from taking on the new information. Some children, however, haven’t had lots of books read to them before they go to school. Once at school, unfortunately these children might have to learn the letters and word identification before they are convinced that books are full of exciting stories and adventures. This is very sad as they don’t know books are fun, surprising and entertaining. These children need to learn that books are full of exciting adventures, fun characters, drama and comedy, as opposed to hard work. VSLs often love fantasy. They learn heaps from fantasy as it stimulates their imagination and they can begin to think of strange and wonderful possibilities. In the past, some people believed that fantasy wasn’t suitable for young children. They believed children wouldn’t know the difference between what is real and what is not; everyone knows when they are watching TV and when they are not and it is the same with imagination. Reading fantasy books helps children believe in the impossible. Having the ability to believe in the impossible has been very important for the advancement of our society. The Wright brothers and Henry Ford had to believe it was possible for their machines to work, in order to put all that hard work into inventing. Without this kind of imagining we wouldn’t be living in houses, driving cars or be able to fly to another country. CBCA Tasmanian Branch Newsletter No. 3, 2013 Page 3 Article by Andrea Potter (cont’d) Some children learn so much more with an imaginative approach to learning. I remember my VSL daughter learning to read through an imaginative approach to letter, word identification and stories.
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