26042: Benson (reply) RE: 26029: jhudicourt (reply) Re: 26012: (Ask) Deb Stockdale RE: children's books (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Legrace Benson <legrace@twcny.rr.com>

> From LeGrace Benson: This response below prompts me to mention working with
a group of teachers in Cap Haitien where the teachers in one of their
classes had an opportunity to make books in Kreyol using a stack of Haitian
paintings about Haitian history copied off on color Xerox, some ordinary
office paper and staples to hold it all together. In another class they made
similar books with pictures cut from magazines that had been recently
discarded.  They designed their books to suit the age kids they would be
teaching.  These were not the handsome productions of Hachette/Duchamps
(they are lovely) but the teachers seemed to enjoy the process and had an
inexpensive, found materials type project to pass along.  There was some
resistance among them to using Kreyol, by the way, so the books were
bilingual.