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Crimes and Misdemeanors on Display in Beatley Library

Posted June 30, 2009

The latest display in Beatley Library has been inspired by the theme of this year’s Children’s Literature Summer Symposium and Institute, Crimes and Misdemeanors.

The brochure for this year’s institute notes that, “Children’s and young adult literature embraces the subversive as both a privilege and an offense of childhood. It tests the limits of social power and personal agency. The summer symposium and institute invite consideration of the literal and metaphoric wrongs perpetrated as they shape plot, theme, character, image and story in children’s books.”

Our display includes works written by authors speaking at the institute this month, such as M.T. Anderson, Martha Brooks, Jack Gantos, and Marilyn Nelson. Also included are books by other authors that address topics similar to the works that are on library reserve for the symposium. Titles range from older works such as Robert Cormier’s I Am the Cheese and Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, to more recent books, including Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis, and Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Please look for Crimes and Misdemeanors on the first floor of the Library, near the Reference Desk, and check out a book from our new display.

 

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