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Topic: RSS FeedWorth the Trouble.(Editorial)
Horn Book Magazine, The, September, 2009
Happenstance allowed that at the same time we were preparing this special issue about "Trouble," Simmons College's Center for the Study of Children's Literature was engaged in its biennial Summer Institute with a sympathetic theme: "Crimes and Misdemeanors."
For the month of July, I led a class of seventeen students in the Center's master's program in children's literature (the first in the country, founded in part by late Horn Book editors Paul and Ethel Heins). We looked at outlaws: the drug-running Jack Gantos (Hole in My Life), the gifted assassin Katsa in Kristin Cashore's Graceling, the young people who stood up to the Jim Crow South in Ellen Levine's Freedom's Children. We talked about rules--for children's books, for reading, for children. These...
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