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• W2055332946 abstract "Reviewed by: Profiles in Children's Literature: Discussions with Authors, Artists, and Editors Petros Panaou (bio) Profiles in Children's Literature: Discussions with Authors, Artists, and Editors. By Jaqueline Shachter Weiss. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2001 This volume is a collection of summarized interviews with numerous established authors, illustrators, and a few editors of children's books. Throughout the volume, Jaqueline Shachter Weiss incorporates audiovisual material from her video series, also entitled Profiles in Children's Literature. While the book is valuable for foregrounding the many connections between creators' work and their personal lives, the endeavor of transforming an audiovisual series into a book produces a somewhat awkward result. The fact that most of the audiovisual material was originally produced in the 1970s adds to the awkwardness of this 2001 publication. When an oral conversation is transferred to the page, it mutates into a completely different creature. Because of this transition from screen to paper, the text's structure and style suffer. The interaction or dialogue between authors, illustrators, and their editors is also lost, since each individual's statements are reported in separate sections that only sporadically include references to the collaborative effort of publishing a children's book. However, by arranging the interviews in alphabetical order and providing a chronological account of each individual's life and work, Weiss manages to keep this considerable amount of material under control. At the end of the book, one finds an appendix entitled Children's Book Awards. Here, Weiss lists all the recipients of the John Newbery Medal, the Randolph Caldecott Medal, the Coretta Scott King Award, and the Pura Belpré Award. To compensate for the datedness of most of the interviews—forty-two of the sixty-six interviews were conducted during the 1970s—Weiss adds a brief update section at the end of most entries. This is hardly sufficient, though, since these additional sections merely list recent publications and awards. The visual material that gets included in the book—black and white stills from the videotaped interviews—adds to the dated look. Each entry is approximately five pages long and features a brief biographical sketch and a chronological presentation of the subject's publications and awards. Weiss uses extensive quotations in which authors and illustrators talk about their work. The collection's chief strength is exactly the creators' intimate commentary about their motivation and inspiration. This commentary brings to center stage the connections between the interviewees' emotions, memories, and relationships and their artistic: production. For example, in a 1991 interview, Jane Yolen shares the following experience in relation to her literary folktale, The Boy Who Sang for Death (The Dream Weaver, Collins, 1979): The boy says, 'Any gift I have I would surely give to get my mother back.' When I wrote it, I didn't have anyone in mind. I was in my kitchen alone one day and started crying when I realized this was a reference to my mother who had died eight years earlier [of lung cancer] (373). Similarly, in a 1978 interview, Virginia Hamilton, in response to a comment about self-reliance being one of the major themes in her work, parallels her characters' experiences to her own: I call it survival. While my characters are not based on real people, they represent something in my past. As a child living in rural Ohio, I was often on my own, made mistakes, and learned from them (141). Weiss' text is notable for its diversity, including outstanding authors and illustrators such as John Steptoe, E.B. Lewis, and Hamilton. Weiss makes her goal clear: to collect interviews with some of the twentieth century's finest creators of children's books (ix). She succeeds. However, while her collection includes Pura Belpré, Kristin Hunter, Aliki, and others, the absence of authors of Asian descent is notable. In her forward, Carolyn Wicker Field identifies the audience for this volume as children's literature fans, including parents and grandparents; pre- and in-service teachers and librarians; university students in children's literature classes; and bright students in grade 6 and beyond (ix). This definition of audience is too broad. Those who will benefit most from this publication are grade school and middle..." @default.
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