tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35088240.post6391501541037072068..comments2023-01-07T19:00:52.526-05:00Comments on the excelsior file: Faristedavid elzeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16653215150526146224noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35088240.post-90846214899727318202009-09-27T11:15:41.422-04:002009-09-27T11:15:41.422-04:00Susan, I know what you mean about the school dilem...Susan, I know what you mean about the school dilemma. I picked up the book at ALA last year and read it once to my students. But it was hard for me to read - not because farts aren't "allowed" in school. (In 1st grade them seem to happen with regularity, and it's not the fact that it *happens* that makes it a problem. It's the fact that the huge finger pointing and diannewriteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275009560340127068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35088240.post-55385450292856017912009-09-24T18:04:17.203-04:002009-09-24T18:04:17.203-04:00My dilemma is this: farts are not allowed in schoo...My dilemma is this: farts are not allowed in school. <br /><br />Any kind of fart talk, rather, is not allowed. Some, and I won't name names, cannot resist the impulse to speak of farts. Again, I don't know of anyone who got in trouble for that very thing TODAY. No.<br /><br />Would the parent of such a school child be able to read Fartiste without fearing that it would immediately be Susan T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17731455290655003809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35088240.post-17603273154579593212009-09-16T22:01:06.817-04:002009-09-16T22:01:06.817-04:00There does seem to be a disconnect between the boo...There does seem to be a disconnect between the book and the end notes in picture book biographies, and sometimes I wonder if they're put there to legitimize the story to adults. <br /><br />My personal opinion is that in picture books, the end notes ought to be directed to the reader, with bibliography and documentation of vetting for the adults.<br /><br />And lately it feels like every david elzeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16653215150526146224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35088240.post-59791999305008014252009-09-16T21:14:04.348-04:002009-09-16T21:14:04.348-04:00I've been thinking about the role of endnotes ...I've been thinking about the role of endnotes (of which I am ordinarily quite fond) lately, too. If they are directed at the adult reader, does it suggest to kids that what they just read (or heard) is somehow incomplete? It was actually refreshing to reach the end of Lasky's biography of darwin (One Beetle Too Many) and find that there were no endnotes, just a bibliography (always Anamaria (bookstogether)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10361389598002568007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35088240.post-22642661206483208412009-09-16T19:15:43.308-04:002009-09-16T19:15:43.308-04:00I often find the end notes of picture book biograp...I often find the end notes of picture book biographies more interesting than the main text.Gail Gauthierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673131515563387968noreply@blogger.com