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What does a novel make a young adult book?
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Tue, 03/31/2009 - 14:20
The Pre-conference event really got well going!
We had an interesting discussion this morning about what makes a book typically a book for young adults.
So far there were three presentations: Christian Holzmann from Austria gave us all kinds of tips about nice books to read and how he stimulates his students to start reading. His talk was called ¨So many books - so little time¨ and that was a good title: you would want to run off to the bookshop and start reading instead of listening to the next speaker.
The next speaker also came from Austria, Jennifer Schumm Fauster, and she talked about project she did with her students at university: Üsing Adult Literature to Explore Cultural Values in EFL¨. An interesting project in which students had to read Young Adult Books and present them to pupils at a secondary schools.
Alan Pulverness also gave all kinds of nice tips of books to read and he especially talked about the criteria of young adult literature. We had some nice discussions about this topic.
What would you say: what makes a book immediately recognisable as a book for young adults?
Tue, 03/31/2009 - 16:38
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We ended the day with a presentation by Carel Burghout about a website he has developed with all kinds of ideas to get reluctant readers to read books. With worksheets for evaluations-
It was a day well spent.
Hi Everyone
I was with Christien in the sessions this morning adn I make her words mine - very interesting topics and I would particularly highlight Alan Pulversness´ talk which I think has broken some of the paradigms in what people usually think appeals to/makes for Young Adult Fiction. It was a fantastic opportunity to review some of teachers´pre-conceptions regarding content, language and resolution in books for Youbg Adults and also how difficult it is to draw a line between YAF and Adult fiction.
First session in the afternnon - we are in the coffee break now - was David A. Hill making us reflect on Melvin Burgess´books. More about what is going on in the LMCS later.
Lots of food for thought :)
Cheers - Chris