Conclusion to Evaluating children's books : a critical look : aesthetic, social, and political aspects of analyzing and using children's books (Papers presented at the Allerton Park Institute held October 25-27, 1992)
Sutton, Roger
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Title
Conclusion to Evaluating children's books : a critical look : aesthetic, social, and political aspects of analyzing and using children's books (Papers presented at the Allerton Park Institute held October 25-27, 1992)
Author(s)
Sutton, Roger
Issue Date
1993
Keyword(s)
Children --Books and reading
Book reviewing
Abstract
"It is amazing, in a three-day conference devoted to the subject of
evaluating books for children and young adults, that not one speaker
has given much attention to the question, ""What is a good book?""
It reminds me of the first day of a college English class where the
professor, the late, lamented Beverle Houston, sat at the head of the
seminar table, blew an impressive smoke ring into the air above us,
and majestically announced that there was no such thing as a good
book. We senior English majors, each passionately attached to various
books, authors, or centuries, were aghast, dismayed at the thought that
four years of fancy education had just gone down the drain."
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Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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