From Tomie dePaola to Paulo Freire: 2004 Ted Hipple Service Award Winner John Mason

With its many distribution channels (trade, clubs, fairs, etc) both domestically and internationally, Scholastic is the world's largest publisher and distributor of English-language children's/YA books. The early 1970s was a time of exciting innovation in education in England, especially in primary (elementary) schools-hordes of Americans used to come over to see the British "open classroom" system where students supposedly engaged in "self-directed learning" in small groups rather than sitting in traditional rows of desks being instructed. John: Having worked in children's/YA books from the 1970's 'til today, I've seen the same trends and milestones as everyone else-the tremendous impact of July Blume-the growth of "realistic" fiction, the "problem novel," authors tackling almost every conceivable issue that faces young adults. Many teens today lead very busy lives with after-school activities, sports, social activities, and many forms of entertainment including TV, movies and DVDs, music, computer games, "IM"-ing, and surfing the web, but nothing engages the imagination with such impact, intimacy, and mind-expanding possibilities as books. [...]I get involved in things that I never expected, like searching for a way we might collaborate with other publishers (working with our International division and the Children's Book Council) to contribute books to school libraries in India and Sri Lanka that were destroyed by the tsunami.

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Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Anonymous

Đề mục:

Young adult literature

Nhà xuất bản:

Assembly on Literature for Adolescents -- National Council of Teachers of English

Ngày xuất bản:

Summer 2006

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Định danh tư liệu:

https://doi.org/10.21061/alan.v32i3.a.6

Nguồn gốc:

ALAN Review; Youngstown, Volume 32, Issue 3, Summer 2006, Pages 29-32

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ISSN 0882-2840

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From Tomie dePaola to Paulo Freire: 2004 Ted Hipple Service Award Winner John Mason

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