[bksvol-discuss] Re: children's poetry/BSO?
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:01:50 -0600
Thanks, Courtney and Mayrie for the feedback. I am glad to hear that poetry
format is not a distractor to auditory readers. When you listen, do you have a
tool that allows you to bypass page numbers? If so, I would need to end each
page or begin the next with an asterisk if it is a story poem like Seuss's as
opposed to a book of poetry where a poem may only be a page long (like most of
the Jeff Foxworthy ones.)
With this feedback, I will submit some BSO's of the Seuss I have on hand before
I give them to schools or the library.
Thanks!
Valerie
On Feb 28, 2010, at 5:38 PM, Mayrie ReNae wrote:
> HI Valerie,
>
> I agree completely that books presented as poetry in print absolutely should
> be that way in bookshare's collection. An asterisk between stanzas for me as
> both a braille and auditory reader is the absolute best way to present
> poetry, given the capabilities of bookshare's tools.
>
> Mayrie
>
>
>
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> I sent this to Carrie, but I also thought I would send it to the list.
>
> Before I go to give away some of my children's poetry books like Dr. Seuss,
> I went to look at some, especially early additions. I notice few to none
> are formatted as poetry (for visual readers) with lines preserved to show
> how they are composed. I realize both styles help one group or the other,
> but unless we can preserve both paragraph and poetry format of poetry, it
> seems to me it should be presented as poetry in lines and stanzas.
>
> Would this be a good use of BSO or not? I know Nichole prefers reading
> poetry as lines, not paragraphs as do I, but am wondering what others think.
> How annoying would the asterisk (star) be between stanzas for those who
> listen instead of reading Braille or text?
>
> Thanks as always for your feedback!
> Valerie
>
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