Volume 8, Issue 2 April 2013
Newsleter of the Teaching Resources Collecion at Bishop Grosseteste University Library
e are very proud to be able to Wsay that our Teaching Resources Collecion has the Royal seal of approval! er Royal Highness The Princess Royal H(pictured let receiving a posy from Hannah Hicks) visited Lincoln on Friday 15th February and spent part of her morning here at Bishop Grosseteste University. Having been shown various parts of the campus Her Royal Highness concluded her visit in the Cornerstone Building where Emma had the honour of showing her around the Library (in the TRC the princess revealed a surprising amount of knowledge about Storysacks!).
er Royal Highness’ inal duty at BGU Hwas to formally open the Cornerstone Building, and during her speech we were paricularly pleased to hear her emphasise the importance of libraries and literacy in educaion. It was a special day enjoyed by all, and a beauifully sunny one at that. pologies (yet again) for the slightly Abelated publicaion of this issue; we’re not quite sure where the year has gone. Happy Reading! Emma and Janice
Inside this issue, as well as all of our regular features, you can read about... • The BGU Carnegie/Greenaway Challenge • Julia Jarman’s visit to the University • Newbery & Caldecot - who were they? • A Farewell to Jan Ormerod And The Winner Is... Julia Jarman’s Visit To BGU
ally Gardner’s Maggot Moon (Hot Key Books, £6.99), e thought we had featured life for the beter. Her popular Time Travelling Cat series Sabout a dyslexic teenager living in a dystopian world, Wprety much every author follows the adventures of Ka and her friend Topher as won the 2012 Costa Children’s Book Award. with links to Lincolnshire in they journey into the past. previous issues of Hullabaloo!. Julia’s visit to BGU was spent with students from our he ever-popular Sir Quenin Blake was the recipient It therefore came as a surprise of the 2012 Eleanor Farjeon Award which recognises BA (Hons) Primary Educaion programme. During her T when Julia Jarman told us, during talk which proved entertaining, thought provoking and outstanding contribuions to children’s books. her visit to the University back in informaive she acknowledged that although there is February, that although she now he 2012 , which always much discussion about the best way to teach ALCS Educaional Writers’ Award lives in Bedfordshire she was born in Lincolnshire, in her celebrates excellence in children’s non-icion, it, there can be no quesion about the importance of T grandmother’s cotage in the fenland village of Deeping was won by Ruth Thomson for her book Terezín: A reading, and the fact that it helps to improve wriing, St James. Story of the Holocaust (Franklin Wats, £9.99), about spelling and language skills. But, she suggested, it is life in a Jewish gheto in what was then known as Julia has always been an avid reader, writer and teller about more than developing pracical competence: Czechoslovakia, during the Second World War. of stories. She was a member of her local library, oten “Stories,” she remarked, “are like clothes that you can visiing twice a day during the school holidays, and at try on to ind out who you are and who you would he 2012 Peters Picture Book of the Year went the age of eight she wrote her irst story. Her favourite like to be”; they Tto Emma Dodd’s take on the Cinderella story, book is Louisa May Alcot’s Litle Women and she help us learn about Cinderelephant (Templar, £10.99), whilst Peters Ficion admits that Jo March has had a profound inluence on other people, Book of the Year went to A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by her. With this background it is perhaps unsurprising their experiences Dave Shelton (David Fickling, £10.99). that Julia studied English and Drama at university and and their feelings. then became a teacher. Julia also feels he American Library Associaion’s 2013 Newbery Julia’s daughter takes the credit for convincing her that reading ofers and Caldecot Medals (see page 6) were announced T to write professionally. Having listened to one of her companionship and in January, with the Newbery Medal going to Katherine the way to a beter Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan (HarperCollins mother’s stories she said, “that’s the most interesing thing you’ve said in your whole life – why don’t you world, developing Childrens, £6.99, a story inspired by true events and not only the skills write it down?” As a result Julia started When Polly Ran narrated by a gorilla!) and the Caldecot Medal to Jon but the emoional Klassen’s This Is Not My Hat (Walker, £11.99). Away, published in 1985. Many more books followed, for children of all ages, and along the way she has maturity to make the most of life’s opportuniies. Julia also paid tribute he winners of the 2012 teamed up with some wonderful arists, including Scoish Children’s Book to the crucial role teachers play in children’s lives. TAwards were announced at a special event in Adrian Reynolds who illustrated The Big Red Bath in Dundee on 7th March. They were, in the Bookbug 2004. A delighful story full of fun and acion, The Big Julia interspersed her talk with funny and energeic Readers category The Day Louis Got Eaten by John Red Bath is a great book to read aloud, so much so readings. She demonstrated that telling a story involves Fardell (Andersen Press Ltd, £5.99); in the Young that The Arts Council has funded a theatrical version more than speaking the words on the page. A whole Readers category The World of Norm: May Contain Nuts which is touring the UK from September and includes range of techniques including facial expressions, eye by Jonathan Meres (Orchard, £5.99); and in the Older performances at the Lincoln LPAC on 29 September and contact, voice modulaion, diferent accents, and body Readers category fantasy novel The 13th Horseman by Stamford Arts Centre on 19 October. movements can be drawn on to act out the narraive. Barry Hutchison (HarperCollins Children’s, £6.99). For older children, Julia deals with a range of For the student teachers listening and watching Julia, challenging issues including animal rights, conlict it was clear that mastering these pracices is essenial een category and overall winner of the 2013 if they are in turn to inspire the children they teach to and bullying. Her 2010 book Inside looks at a young Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize was coming-of- T ofender and the choices he has to make to change his become readers. age story Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher (Indigo, £9.99). The Ficion for 5-12 Year Olds category was won by RJ Palacio’s Wonder (Corgi Children’s, £6.99), and the Picture Books category by Rebecca Cobb’s Lunchime The Competition (Macmillan’s Children’s Books, £6.99). ast issue’s winner was lecturer Ashley Compton who correctly spoted he winners of the 2013 Blue Peter Book Awards that the irst line of the poem was from Robert Frost’s Stopping By Twere announced in March. The Award for Best Story LWoods On A Snowy Evening. A new irst line is below. Simply email us at went to Liz Pichon for Tom Gates: Genius Ideas, Mostly [email protected] with the name of the poet and poem by 31 July and (Scholasic, £6.99), and the Best Book With Facts went the irst correct answer out of the hat will win a £10 Naional Book Token. to Nick Arnold and Tony De Saulles for Horrible Science: House of Horrors (Scholasic, £12.99). “This is the night mail crossing the border...” Our Shadowing Challenge: The Story So Far
n the last issue of Hullabaloo! we part and highlighted some of their Before we knew it it was 21 March I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein announced the BGU Carnegie/ favourite itles from the longlists. and ime for our second event I Review by Dan Morelle Review by Adam Houndslow-Eyre Greenaway Challenge, an iniiaive All 132 books were on display and to announce the shortlists and EXCELLENT! Very gritty WWII story we developed to mirror the promote the second stage of the Jon Klassen pays homage to Eisenstein’s The Red Shoes – scenes of torture/ escape/ shootings. shadowing schemes that take place Challenge. Helping us to celebrate with this unorthodox picture A lot left to the imagination- EVEN in UK schools. There are several were author and illustrator Jackie book. A triangular lash of red appears in WORSE!! Fabulous ‘feminist’ theme through the book with reasons why we wanted develop Morris (pictured let) and bookseller the thoughtfully paced sequence of images. two strong female lead characters. our own scheme. Firstly we wanted Marilyn Brocklehurst from the Klassen’s use of repetition and shocking denouement leaves children slightly puzzled to draw atenion not only to the Norfolk Children’s Book Centre. Goldilocks and Just The One Bear by Leigh Hodgkinson awards and shadowing schemes, but Jackie gave a fascinaing talk on and adults horriied: of course it is the reader Review by Sophie Ellis also to all of the past and present how she developed and illustrated who decides the fate of the millinery tea-leaf. I took the book to placement to share with the children winners and contenders. Secondly, her book The Cat & The Fiddle: A because I loved it so much! All the children enjoyed the story we thought it would be a great guests were invited to browse and Treasury of Nursery Rhymes which The Hueys in the New Jumper by Oliver Jefers and were very engaged by the illustrations. I had their full way to celebrate our new Teaching borrow a book from each longlist. was longlisted, but unfortunately Review by Philippa (aged 6) attention throughout. Resources Collecion (TRC) and our Over the next few weeks a steady not shortlisted, for this year’s Kate It was a really good book. It was pretty funny extensive collecion of children’s Greenaway Medal (see our Dec because they all thought they were different Croc and Bird by Alexis Deacon literature. Thirdly, we never 2012 issue for more informaion when they were all the same with the same Review by the Clarke brothers, Thomas (8) and Jamie (4) pass up a chance to promote the about Jackie and her connecion to jumpers on. I loved the drawings because they Thomas: This book is a good friendship story. It teaches you government’s Reading for Pleasure the TRC). As it was World Poetry were the same. that you don’t have to be friends just with people that are iniiaive. And lastly, we wanted Day we incorporated some poetry like you. to give the people of BGU the readings too, and Marilyn’s book My Big Shouing Day by Rebecca Paterson Jamie: The crocodile makes me laugh. opportunity to engage with some stall was a popular draw, especially Review by Diane fabulous books, make connecions when it came to Jackie’s books, all A good book to...stimulate talking about feelings...Nice simple language that younger children will understand. with fellow bibliophiles, and develop of which she very kindly signed (and their knowledge of children’s low of people came and borrowed doodled in!). literature; not only for their own the books and before long several of personal beneit, but to pass on the books had had a review placed There’s sill plenty of ime to A Review Of ‘The Weight of Water’ to the children they encounter at inside them (you can read a few of paricipate in the Challenge by home, on placement, and in the them the next page). voing for your favourite from each he Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan is a icional as Crossan explores issues of immigraion, loss of love, workplace. of the two shortlists. All Ttale that takes the unusual form of a verse novel. bullying and close friendships. Interesingly, as the novel sixteen shortlisted books This striking arrangement brings poeic quality to the is writen from a child’s perspecive, the innocence of We had a fantasic response. (listed below and pictured narraive that stands out as irst-class. Crossan captures youth is felt throughout Crossan’s narraive. People from across the let) are displayed in the TRC the mood superbly in high deiniion. This sharpness University atended the and you have unil 12 June focuses everyday struggles and anxieies felt by the This book is both accessible and enjoyable to teenagers launch in the TRC on 4 to cast your vote. By doing protagonist, Kasienka. and adults alike. The unclutered nature of the text February. Emma and Janice so you can also enter a prize leads the reader through the text quickly and easily. The introduced the Medals and draw to win copies of the two We follow twelve (almost thirteen) year old Kasienka inspired layout is exciing and visually energising. True outlined how to take part. oicial Medal winners, which and her mother as they leave their homeland to its poeic form, stanzas replace paragraphs and once Lecturers Helen Hendry and will be announced on 19 Poland. However, against all our expectaions, their read aloud the true expression of the characters, in Sibylle Erle then talked about June along with our own BGU lives become even more diicult once they reach paricular Kasienka, become illuminated and stand out the signiicance of taking winners. So get reading!! their desinaion. Mama must deal with the pain of from within the pages. heartbreak and Kasienka must bear the burden of being Feelings of anxiety, helplessness and loneliness are ‘the outsider’ in the alien world of modern Britain. As The CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist: The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlist: tensions rise, alongside feelings of sorrow and being very strong in this novel, allowing the audience to feel a homesick, both Mama and Kasienka discover unusual deep emoional connecion with each character. You as The Weight of Water Sarah Crossan Lunchtime Rebecca Cobb the reader are parachuted into the novel as Kasienka’s A Greyhound of a Girl Roddy Doyle Again! Emily Gravett methods of coping emoionally. conidant, allowing you the opportunity to relect upon Maggot Moon Sally Gardner Oh No, George! Chris Haughton This novel would appeal to a wide ranging audience each scenario as it unfolds. The novels simulaing form In Darkness Nick Lake I Want My Hat Back Jon Klassen due to Crossan’s ability to combine contrasing urges you to read on in order to ind out what happens Wonder R.J. Palacio Pirates ‘n’ Pistols Chris Mould situaions that are someimes very familiar to us and next, I could not put this book down, it had me gripped! Midwinterblood Marcus Sedgwick King Jack and the Dragon Oxenbury & Bently someimes completely new and unfamiliar. Despite A Boy and a Bear in a Boat Dave Shelton Black Dog Levi Pinfold By Lauren Doble being introduced to new thoughts and situaions, Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein Just Ducks! Rubbino & Davies 2nd year BA (Hons) English Literature audiences are able to sympathise with the characters Two Giants Of Children’s Literature Reading For Pleasure News
ur Carnegie / Greenaway Challenge (see pages 4 which together form the Osborne Collecion of Early ileen Finch oten shared books with her children. any readers know from experience that the Oand 5) set us thinking about the two Medals and Children’s Literature; a beauiful and fascinaing EShe believed that this special ime together was Mbeneits of reading for pleasure cannot be the people they were named for. This then prompted collecion that you are encouraged to seek out: you’ll not only fun but also helped develop her children’s underesimated. However, more and more we are us to wonder about the equivalent prizes in the USA: ind it on the Children’s Reference shelves in the TRC. conidence, social and educaional skills. Later in life being asked to back up what we insincively know with The Newbery Medal and the Caldecot Medal. Both are Two other of the books in the Osborne Collecion - she wanted to do the same with her grandchildren but research and staisics. A report from the Department awarded by the American Library Associaion but do Babes in the Wood and The Divering History of John Eileen sufers from Stargardt’s Disease, which means for Educaion enitled Research Evidence in Reading they pre-date the UK awards, and who were Newbery Gilpin - were illustrated by Randolph Caldecot, and it that her central vision is progressively disappearing. for Pleasure helpfully summarizes the beneits and lists and Caldecot? is an image from the later which decorates one side of strategies to improve independent reading, including the Caldecot Medal; irst awarded in 1938, pre-daing Unable to ind any suitable picture books she decided the importance of choice and the home environment In fact, both of the American medals pre-date the the irst Kate Greenaway Medal by 17 years. to take acion, and ater intensive research, many Briish Medals, and they are named for two giants of the in fostering a lifelong love of books and reading. It setbacks and hard work Eileen successfully gained also stresses that reading for pleasure is strongly children’s literature world: John Newbery (1713-1767) Randolph Caldecot was born in Chester copyright permission to produce books with giant and Randolph Caldecot (1846-1886), both of whom, in 1846, just 6 days ater Kate Greenaway. inluenced by relaionships between teachers and print, braille and illustraions on each double page. children, and children and families. Read it in full at incidentally, were Briish. He iniially worked in a bank and studied Titles include The Grufalo, The Tiger Who Came to htp://inyurl.com/clogb83. art in his spare ime. His irst sketch was Tea, Handa’s Hen, and We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, The Newbery Medal was irst awarded in 1922, pre- published in the Illustrated London News the last two of which we purchased for the TRC. daing the irst Carnegie Medal by 14 years. Said to be when he was just 16 and he coninued the oldest children’s book prize in the world, it was the Find out more at www.access2books.org. to have drawings published in various magazines and idea of publisher and bookseller Frederic G. Melcher newspapers, unil in 1872 he moved to London to be who also suggested that the Medal be named for John a full-ime arist. His success grew quickly; he became Newbery, a publisher and bookseller like Melcher, and friends with the group of arists known as the Pre- oten referred to as ‘the father of children’s literature’. Raphaelite Brotherhood and had a paining exhibited at Coincidentally, this year marks the 300th the Royal Academy. anniversary of John Newbery’s birth, in In 1877 printer Edmund Evans asked Caldecot Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire. At the to create illustraions for two children’s books for age of 16 he was appreniced to a local Christmas, of which one was the aforemenioned The printer and eventually came to jointly Divering History of John Gilpin. own the business. By 1740 he had started his own publishing business in Reading and just three years later opened a shop in London. Ater publishing When I Was A Nipper several books for adults John Newbery turned his eye to This issue’s nipper is Mike Rogers, “This belongs to …” scrawl found in books for children; the irst person ever to do so. His who works as Collecions Team so many childhood books. irst children’s book, A Litle Prety Pocket Book, was Leader at the Lincolnshire Archives... published in 1744 and contained poems, proverbs and I had a few other volumes in the an alphabet song. It also had a bright cover to make it he Litle Old Engine is the 14th series, and there were yet more appealing to children. It was a resounding success and Tvolume of Rev W Awdry’s Railway at Infant School, avidly read by John Newbery went on to become the leading publisher Series. It was irst published in my contemporaries, but this was © Gullane (homas) LLC and used with the permission of Egmont UK Ltd. and author of children’s books in the eighteenth century 1959, some 14 years ater the irst deinitely my favourite. Apart with clients including Samuel Johnson and Oliver appearance of the anthropomorphic from short cameo appearances by Twins. Of these, the irst has always Goldsmith. The books were immediately popular. Caldecot engines of the Isle of Sodor. Gordon and James, the main line stuck in my mind – poor Peter Sam created two more every year for the rest of his life and and branch line engines play no part gets damaged by kamikaze slate The Litle John Newbery’s most famous book was the series (16 in total) cemented his reputaion as a I don’t recall who gave me the in the book. Instead it concentrates trucks on an inclined plane in a case History of Goody Two Shoes , a facsimile ediion of talented illustrator of children’s books. By the ime of book – presumably parents or on the escapades of ive narrow of mistaken idenity. which we keep grandparents – but it was a splendid his death in 1886, at the age of just 39, over 800,000 gauge engines: Peter Sam, Skarloey, in the Teaching choice. 15 new pence well spent. At the age of 13, on a school trip copies of Caldecot’s Christmas books had been sold and Sir Handel, Duncan, and Rusty the Resources to North Wales, we stopped of in he was famous around the world. diesel. Collecion. It My own copy is the irst paperback Llanberis. There, in an abandoned is one of a The website www.randolphcaldecot.co.uk contains ediion, 1970, and is in surprisingly As with all the volumes in the slate quarry just like the one in small number some moving tributes writen about Randolph Caldecot good condiion given the original series, there are four linked the book, were several bright red of facsimile following his death and is a great place to read more hammering it must have received. stories, beauifully illustrated on narrow gauge steam engines … we There are a few loose pages, and ediions we about his life and work. every other page: Trucks!; Home at had inally met. And yes, I do own own, and someone has used the back cover Last; Rock ‘n’ Roll; and Litle Old the Complete Collecion in one to test biros, but it lacks a scrawled volume. Farewell Jan Ormerod (1946-2013)
ustralian author and illustrator Jan Ormerod died about her youngest daughter’s agonizing wait for her Aof cancer in Leicester on 23rd January 2013 aged new kiten to arrive; 101 Things To Do With A Baby 66. Born Janet Hendry in Bunbury, Australia Ormerod (1984) dealt with the arrival of a new sibling; and the was the youngest of four sisters. She enjoyed art from Baby Book and New Baby Book series focused on the an early age and is said to have drawn inspiraion from relaionship between father and toddler and pregnant girls’ annuals and comics. Ater atending art school mum and toddler respecively. Furthermore, we in Perth she taught in secondary schools and a teacher included When An Elephant Comes to School in our training college before marrying librarian Paul Ormerod Transiions Reading Resource as an excellent book to in 1971. She and her youngest daughter Sophie share with children concerned about staring school. discovered picture books together when husband Paul used to bring them home from the library. She Jan Ormerod’s career spanned over 30 years, during describes how she “was hooked. I knew I wanted to which ime she wrote and/or illustrated around 100 make picture books. I resigned my job, let the house, books and won several awards, the most recent and set of for London and my career in picture books.” of which was in 2011 when her collaboraion with indigenous Australian (and current Australian Children’s Ormerod’s irst book, Sunshine, was published in 1981. Laureate) Boori Monty Prior, Shake a Leg, won them A double-page spread from the book can be seen at the Australia’s Prime Minister’s Literary Award. botom of the page. The book shows, through pictures alone, a young girl and her parents sleepily staring their Just as it is clear from her work that she cherished her day; waking up, having breakfast, geing dressed, and role as a parent, it is clear from the content of the many leaving the house. Though simple in its concept – akin obituaries writen ater her death that Jan Ormerod was to a storyboard or ilm strip – in the early 80s the format a caring, generous, stylish woman with a great sense had rarely been seen in picture books. It soon became of humour. It is also clear, from her own words – in Anita Silvey’s book Children’s Books and Their Creators a hit, receiving both the Mother Goose Award (a Briish prize for newcomers to children’s book illustraion, last - that she had a fundamental understanding of the given out in 1999) and the Australian Picture Book of importance and value of storytelling: the Year Award, as well as a Kate Greenaway Medal I depend on an adult to create the right atmosphere commendaion. A companion book, Moonlight, which and help children with my books…I believe that teachers, showed a young girl and her family sleepily ending their librarians, and parents can enjoy idenifying with the day, was published four years later in 1985. adult in the book, while the children see the book from their perspecive. When this happens, it is a ime for Many of Ormerod’s books were writen for babies and young children. They are the results of observing physical closeness and comfort, a quiet ime for sharing her own and her friends’ children, and of having a ideas and feelings, for laughing and learning together. Any adult who takes ime to share books with small fundamental understanding of what interested, excited, children will be rewarded, enriched, and revitalized by it and worried them. Kiten Day (1989) was writen every ime.
From Sunshine by Jan Ormerod copyright (c) Frances Lincoln Ltd. 2005. Reproduced by permission of Frances Lincoln Ltd.
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