>And the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal goes to...

>. . . oh, the hell with confidentiality.

Unfortunately, the lady is ineligible, having not published citable work in the last twenty-five years (this rule got Robert McCloskey in trouble, too). But think of what Harper Lee has done for children's literature in this country--and, ahem, pursuant to our last discussion, without even a notion of writing "for children." You see her imprint most clearly in the southern coming-of-age tales by the likes of Betsy Byars, Sue Ellen Bridgers, Katherine Paterson and Kimberly Willis Holt; but I think the seriousness and respect with which she explored a child's moral and creative imagination gave real freedom to all juvenile realistic fiction in the last half of the last century.

Lee can, I believe, win the Margaret Edwards award, although I think one of the (shameless) criteria is that the winner must agree to show up and give a speech, which Lee famously does not do.
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Posted : Mar 23, 2008 03:12


shewhousuallydoesn'tdothistypeofthing

>Andy, I think you have completely missed my point because you're, as usual, so busy working on your rebuttal, you aren't really listening to what you're rebutting. Anyhow, I'm blogging permanently off this blog now. It's been fun but I think the book talkers are always more interested in their talk than the books and it's not the world I belong in. And good night to the old lady whispering hush.

Posted : Feb 02, 2006 04:31


Andy Laties

>I have sent four copies of my book and $260 to the IPPY awards people.
http://www.independentpublisher.com/ipaward.lasso

How vexing to have to engage in this sort of self-promotion. And yet I know so well that a silver sticker on my book will make it much more likely to prove credible to the casual browser in a bookstore, or book critic opening a huge stack of mail. My book attacks all the conventions of book distribution, and yet I must struggle to succeed in propagating my message in the very world I hope to help alter.

Posted : Feb 02, 2006 02:06


Andy Laties

>However, although clearly, SHE, you've got White pegged correctly, it's also true that the SUBJECT of "Charlotte's Web" is a character being celebrated by another character in such a way as to call general attention to his qualities. And Charlotte's efforts save Wilbur's life. That is: Charlotte publicizes Wilbur's virtues. Although the book is satiric of society's requirement that those virtues be highlighted in order that Wilbur be merely permitted to live, still, Charlotte does essentially enter Wilbur into that contest of virtues and it works. He wins his own life. It's horrible that this should be required. But we don't think less of Charlotte for ensuring that he get entered into this contest for survival, and for ensuring that he wins.

Posted : Feb 02, 2006 02:00


Andy Laties

>Well -- here's how Roger Angell remembers this:

Public gatherings—and most private ones, as well—made him jumpy. For years he had passed up family weddings and graduations, town meetings, dedications and book awards, cocktail bashes and boat gams and garden parties. As his literary reputation widened when he was in his forties and fifties, he did make it to a few select universities to receive honorary degrees, but despite prearranged infusions of sherry or Scotch he found the ceremonials excruciating. “So the old emptiness and dizziness and vapors seized hold of me,” he writes to my mother after his honoris causa Ph.D. appearance at Dartmouth in 1948. “Nobody who has never had my peculiar kind of disability can understand the sheer hell of such moments, but there they are.” And when the time came for the encomiums and the enrobing, there in the sunshine at Hanover, he went on, his hood—“white, quite big, and shaped like a loose-fitting horse collar”—became entangled with the honoree in the next seat, Ben Ames Williams: Andy’s worst dreams come true. “When I got seated the thing was up over my face, as in falconry,” he continues. “A fully masked Doctor of Letters, a headless poet.” After that, he stayed home, even passing up an invitation in 1963 to go to Washington and receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Lyndon Johnson; the deed was consummated instead by a stand-in, Maine’s Senator Edmund Muskie, in the office of the president of Colby College. Andy also skipped his wife’s private burial in the Brooklin Cemetery, in July, 1977. None of us in the family expected otherwise or held this against him. And when his own memorial came, eight years later, I took the chance to remark, “If Andy White could be with us today he would not be with us today.”

Posted : Feb 02, 2006 01:49


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