[LM_NET] Article about Newbery winner: Lynne Rae Perkins

[Mary Ludwick <ludwick@SWBELL.NET>]

Read an interesting story about Lynne Rae Perkins, Newbery winner, in the 
Houston paper over the weekend.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/4155615.html

from the article:
Perkins sees things in a way the rest of us don't. She likes it that way.

"If everybody starts seeing the same things I do, then nobody would see 
anything interesting in what I do," the author/illustrator says with a 
smile.

A Perkins novel for teens, Criss Cross, won the 2006 Newbery Medal, awarded 
to the year's best book for children. The book is honest and funny and 
quirky. Like Perkins.

The book startled and charmed critics, in part because of the odd stuff 
Perkins included.

You're reading along about a teen named Debbie and her friends as they 
navigate confounding teen life, and suddenly there's a bit of haiku. Or song 
lyrics. Or the text shifts to a question-and-answer session.

Perkins tossed in little drawings and photographs to illustrate her points, 
goofy little things such as a buffalo wearing glasses or a comb jumping out 
of a kid's back pocket. She rigged that photo herself with a comb, some wire 
and her husband's pocket...........article continues..........



Mary Croix Ludwick, Librarian  K-5
Thomas Haley Elem, Irving, Texas (near Dallas)
ludwick@swbell.net (home address)

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