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Comment on Telemarketing Kills Charity by izzy foreal

izzy foreal — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:05:04 +0000

Sorry to tell you all this. The response rate to mail makes it much less cost effective than a fundraising call. I work in the non-profit world. It is amazing how much less costly and lower carbon footprint the phones are.

It can cost almost a dollar to send a letter. How many appeal letters will it take before you make a gift? How many have you thrown away? I know it is uncomfortable to be asked by a person to help a charitable group but it is just a phone call.

Comment on How to Publish Your Article by Philip Nel

Philip Nel — Mon, 13 May 2013 10:35:08 +0000

Shimshon: Yes, but you would want to let the journal know that you’ve published it previously in a different language. Its previous publication might be a problem or it might not — after all, they’d have the opportunity to publish the article for the first time in a different language.

Comment on How to Publish Your Article by Shimshon

Shimshon — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:11:08 +0000

If one publishes an article in one language, can they publish a similar version of the article in another language? (Obviously a different audience). If so, would they inform the journal that a version of the submission has already been published in a different language?

Comment on Happy Mother’s Day! Love, Bruce Springsteen by Tracy McMillen

Tracy McMillen — Sun, 12 May 2013 16:53:45 +0000

Awesome! She’s adorable!!

Comment on One year later: Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) by Philip Nel

Philip Nel — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:40:33 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Mary. I’ve been meaning to pick up a copy of this for some time. After seeing your post earlier today, I finally ordered one.

Comment on One year later: Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) by Mary Galbraith

Mary Galbraith — Wed, 08 May 2013 16:40:18 +0000

“Tell Them Anything You Want,” the HBO documentary on Maurice Sendak by Spike Jonze, has recently appeared on Youtube –it may not stay long, and in any case it’s better to buy it. I show this documentary to my students every semester as an introduction to picture book artists, and every semester I get thank yous for showing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYpCP_9Hn2k

Comment on A Manifesto for Children’s Literature; or, Reading Harold as a Teenager by Weekend Reading: Children's Literature Link Roundup | Super Simple Learning Blog

Fri, 03 May 2013 17:44:40 +0000

[...] his blog Nine Kinds of Pie, Phil Nel recently posted a manifesto for children’s literature, where he writes beautifully about why adults should take children’s book seriously. Nel [...]

Comment on A Manifesto for Children’s Literature; or, Reading Harold as a Teenager by Rosanne Parry

Rosanne Parry — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 03:13:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing your manifesto, Phil. As ever, good food for thought. Here’s my point to add to your list.

Adults should continue to read children’s books because the concerns of childhood do not leave us when we reach our legal majority. The essential questions about the world and our place in it continue life-long. What are my talents and how should I use them? Who will be a be a good companion to me and how can I be a good companion to another? What is the just response in this situation and why should I care? I haven’t out grown these concerns. I hope I never do. My mother died unexpectedly a month ago today, and I’m finding this moment in my adult life as much a coming of age as any first trip to summer camp or boarding school. I read plenty of adult literature, plays, essays, and poetry, but there isn’t a single adult novel that I recall from a lifetime of reading that would comfort and support me in this moment. But there are plenty of children’s books that have nourishing things to say. Because all these years later, Pooh still has his Kanga, and Harold and his crayon are drawing their way back home to his own warm and safe bedroom.

Comment on A Manifesto for Children’s Literature; or, Reading Harold as a Teenager by Gloria Hardman

Gloria Hardman — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:56:00 +0000

I’m proud and happy to take credit for introducing Phil to Harold. I found Harold and the Purple Crayon in the Lynnfield public library which was a favorite place for us to visit. Phil was about three or four years old and he certainly enjoyed the book, but it went back to the library and the memory must have drifted away.

I was delighted when he rediscovered Harold and embarked on the research and writing of the biography of Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss.

Gloria a.k.a Phil’s Mom

Comment on A Manifesto for Children’s Literature; or, Reading Harold as a Teenager by Aaron Kashtan

Aaron Kashtan — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:44:14 +0000

Thank you for the brilliant post, Phil.

I don’t know if Perry’s point about embarrassment is true about scholars of children’s literature, but I think it may well be true about comics scholars. As a comics scholar, I feel that many of us in the field have internalized a certain sense of embarrassment about the supposedly childish and low-cultural nature of our object of study. And we feel we have to justify our decision to study comics by claiming that comics can be just as sophisticated and literary as books without pictures.