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Riverbank Review of Books for Young Readers – Fall 2002 AN INTERVIEW WITH LINDA SUE PARK ~R.1ver b ankR ev1ew . ~~~~ ---~ - ~~ --~~ ------­ of l>ook.s foi- Young -readers Ten Great Alphabet Books The Picture Book Redefined By Nathalie op de Beeck John Caddy's Earth Journal A Profile of ~anet Taylor Lisle By Christine Heppennann The Charlotte Zolotow Award New Books for Fall FALL 2002 2 3> a 74470 94662 s $5.95 US $7.95 CAN Read with someone you love ALPHABOAT BOB Michael Chesworth Tracey Campbell Pearson "A delightful sail on the sea of "A rooster with a bit of an identity crisis language lunacy. Full of shameless takes center coop in this lighthearted wordplay and outrageous puns (the picture book about the sounds various best kind). It's insidious, contagious, animals make ... Pearson's kicky pencil­ and funny. Just what a children's and-watercolor scenes give this simple book should be." -Norton Juster barnyard tale a vibrant sense of sound $16.00 I 0-374-30244-8 I Ages 4-8 and movement." -Publishers Weekly $16.00 I 0-374-39957-3 I Ages 3--6 COMIC ADVENTURES OF BOOTS POTCH & POLLY Satoshi Kitamura William Steig "Kitamura expertly storyboards the Pictures by Jon Agee action and encloses all the written "Antisentimentalist Steig crafts a screwball narration in conversational voice Cinderella story about a couple of klutzes bubbles. With their big ears, dazed .. As in other wacky courtships - Popeye eyes and nonplussed expressions, his and Olive come to mind - the romance is cats are anything but quick thinkers, hard to fathom, but the puckish storytelling and their neighborhood 'adventures' and artful compositions have considerable unfold at a leisurely pace that spark." -Publishers Weekly heightens the absurd humor." $16.00 I 0-374-36090-1 I Ages 4-8 -Publishers Weekly $16.00 I 0-374-31455-1 I Ages 5 up DAHLIA Barbara McClintock * "A doll story that will win over even confirmed tomboys ... McClintock's detailed tableaux conveying the garb, architecture and furnishings of the era perfectly fit the mood of the story, their delicate lines and coloring belied by the robust action they convey. A timeless charmer." -Starred, Publishers Weekly $16.00 I 0-374-31678-3 I Ages 4-8 Frances Foster Books Illustration by Barbara McClintock from Dnlilin FARRAR• STRAUS• GIROUX Fall 2002 contents Essays ~ The Picture Book Redefined ................. 8 The picture book is an inherently adventurous art form. Our friends are often our angels, even By Nathalie op de Beeck when they do not see their own wings. Small Wonders ........................... 16 Last fall, such a friend arrived at my Short novels for children can make a big impact. doorstep. I was lost. In the two years fol­ By Mary Lou Burket lowing my mother's death I had not been able to write or create pictures. Reviews Nothing made sense. ~ My friend arrived with a book and New Books for Fall .............. .. ........ 28 began to read the great Mississippi River tale Huckleberry Finn. As he read, a quiet Features peace prevailed. The leaves falling out­ ~ side the window and the words falling r HE TEACHER'S ART E-Mailing the Wild ......................... 5 through the quiet room were joined. A poet's "Earth Journal" connects readers Next we read Tom Sawyer and the falling with the natural world. leaves turned to falling snow. Moby Dick By john Caddy began in the winter and the words came of the PROFILE Janet Taylor Lisle .... .................. 12 up as tulips by the time Pequod's The truth is never easy to define in this novelist's sinking. The green of summer brought provocative and surprising stories. Melville's short stories and Sherlock By Christine Heppermann Holmes's deductions. Somehow, with the help of my BOOKMARK Ten Great Alphabet Books .... ............. 15 friend's voice and these stories, the world began to make sense again. Joy The Charlotte Zolotow Award . 18 returned, this time within the knowledge Named for a distinguished author and editor, this award honors outstanding picture-book text. that all leaves, and all people, fall. We do this together. It is our amazing story. INTERVIEW Linda Sue Park ............. .. ... ...... 23 This cover is my grateful response to The 2002 Newbery Medalist delves into Korea's past a year of reading aloud-a thank you for to write about the passionate lives of children. all those falling words and the peace By Susan Marie Swanson they brought. -Debra Frasier A POEM FOR FALL "Monarchs Migrating" ........ .. ........... 26 By Marilyn Singer Debra Frasier's picture books include On the Day Yo u Were Born (Harcourt, 1991) and, )NE FOR THE SHELF Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden ... .. 60 most recent[y, In the Space of the Sky, by By Christine Alfano Richard Lewis (Harcourt, 2002). Riverbank Review 911 Editor Martha Davis Beck Art Director THE BOOK OF HELP Kristi Anderson Two Spruce Design ~ Contributing Editors Christine Alfano, Mary Lou Burket, Christine Heppermann, Susan Marie Swanson Marketing Director Christine Alfano Circulation Manager Jodi Grandy Controller Greg Triplett Bookkeeper Michele Tempel Copy Editor Lynn Marasco House Artist Julie Delton Web Site Manager Mary Beth Hanson Fall 2002/Volume V, Number 3 Copyright (~ 2002 by Riverbank Review. All rights reserved. AUTHORS RESPOND Please direct correspondence to: TO THE TRAGEDY Riverbank Review 1624 H armon Place, Suite 305 Minneapolis, MN 55403 Edited by Phone: (6 12) 486-5690 Fax: (866) 261-6729 Michael Cart, with Marc Aronson and E-mail: [email protected] Marianne Carus Web site: \vww.riverbankreview.com "Here are heroic people who show the basic core of goodness in Riverbank Rl"virw (ISSN 1099-6389) is published humanity, here is the anger, here the fear, here the calm, eventual quarterly. Subscriptions are $22.95 for one year, acceptance of tragic events as part of our world. The entire $37.95 for two years (Canada: $32.95/ $52.95). anthology could serve as the basis for seminars, writing classes, Acknowledgments or even a college course." Riverbank Rrview is grateful to the following individu­ -starred review, Kirkus Reviews als for their support during the past quarter: Alice Angell, Avery J. Beer, Inez Bergquist, Rosemary Brooks, Joseph Bruchac, Deborah Bunn Alley, Pamela Burkley, A Book Sense 76 Children's Pick Jay and Page Cowles, John Coy, Sally Derby, Lois EWert, Judy Hawkinson, Jennifer Heldenbrand, Aaron Hsu­ $17. 95 / ISBN 0-8126-2659-1 / Hardcover Flanders, Paula Huddy, Valerie Jndenbaum, Susan S. $9.95 / ISBN 0-8126-2676-1 / Trade paper Kiewra, Gloria C. Kortmeyer, Annie Kuhn, A. Scheffer Lang, Sandra Zelenke Marr, E.G. Olstad, Susan Young Adult •:• Teacher's Guide available •:+ www.911bookforteens.com Rosenthal, Mary Ellen Strupp, Margaret Winters, and Nora Wise. Publication of Ri1.1erbank Rl'1.liew is made possible, in p.1rt, by funds provided by the Metropolitan Regional Ans Council from an appropri,ttion by the Minnesota Legislature, and by grJnts from the Elmer L. Jnd Eleanor Andersen II J. Cricket Books Foundation, the Minnesota Humanities A Mnrcnlo Book Commission, Robins, Kaplan, Miller and Distnhutl•d by Publi~hcr; Group \Vest Ciresi LL.P., Scholastic Inc., and the DeWin ~0~.r;.~W~~ and Caroline Van Evera Foundation. CO"IMISSION 2 Fall 2002 editors note A year has passed since the terrorist attacks that violently ing. Background on the flag and the Pledge is provided in shook our world. The impulse to mark the anniversary of such manageable snippets that don't bog down the flow of the an event may strike some as arbitrary, but I think it is innate. main text, but effectively offer context. The notes implicitly Human beings have always been conscious of the calendar. reinforce an idea that is appallingly absent from most patri­ We take our cues from the natural world, which, even as it otic books: the notion that individuals must figure out what erupts unexpectedly with fires, earthquakes, and floods, also they think about the world and their place in it, and that the offers regular intervals ofrenewal that many ofus anticipate and freedom and responsibility to do this is one of the most depend upon. In her poem "A Settlement," Mary Oliver important principles underlying American culture. describes the beauty of springtime that turns "last year's A handful of recently published children's books direct­ loose dust" into "soft willingness." The power of new life is ly address the events of September 11. Three are reviewed in inescapable, pushing the poet into as inescapable a resolution: this issue: two poetry books (Naomi Shihab Nye's 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems ofthe Middle East and Georgia Heard's pic­ Therefore, dark past ture-book anthology, This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort) as I'm about to do it. well as a collection of essays, poems, and stories published I'm about to forgive you by Cricket Books, 911: The Book ofHelp. Each is thoughtful for everything. and provocative in its own way. My favorite September 11-related children's book is In this part of the country, each season's arrival is dra­ Maira Kalman's Fireboat, a friendly and moving picture matic and offers its own invitation to start fresh . The cool air book about a refurbished fireboat's helpful role following and bright colors of fall have the power to reinvigorate both the World Trade Center disaster. It's a true story, full of pluck body and spirit. Like many people, I feel special need of and optimism, the fireboat and its crew as engaging as the such an effect this year. human and human-made characters in Virginia Lee Bur­ September 11 has been a reference point in much that has ton's classic picture books (Mike Mulligan and His Steam been written in recent months-for children as well as Shovel, Katy and the Big Snow, The Little House) .
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