Comments on: Forsooth, ‘Tis Two Brief Excerpts From Laura Amy Schlitz’s ‘Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!’ So That Thou May Know the 2008 Newbery Medal Winner http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/forsooth-tis-two-brief-excerpts-from-laura-amy-schlitzs-good-masters-sweet-ladies-so-that-thou-may-know-the-2008-newbery-medal-winner/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:28:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/forsooth-tis-two-brief-excerpts-from-laura-amy-schlitzs-good-masters-sweet-ladies-so-that-thou-may-know-the-2008-newbery-medal-winner/#comment-5429 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:22:30 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/forsooth-tis-two-brief-excerpts-from-laura-amy-schlitzs-good-masters-sweet-ladies-so-that-thou-may-know-the-2008-newbery-medal-winner/#comment-5429 I haven’t read “Feathers,” but I’m so eager to, because it was high on a lot of “Mock Newbery” and other lists. Thanks for giving me an extra incentive.

Oddly enough, “Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!” has quite a bit about God and Christianity. Simon, “The Knight’s Son” in the book, says: “I would fight / for widows and orphans / Christ and His church.” There are many lines about saints and Christian holidays (though there’s material on Judaism, too).

But in my experience, many publishers and others are more willing to accept Christianity in books about the distant past — that is, in books treat Christianity as history rather than as a living faith. So I don’t know if, good as she is, Schlitz would have won if she’d written about contemporary people who, for example, spoke about fighting for “Christ and His church.”

I’d love to know what some librarians think about that one, wouldn’t you?

Jan

]]> By: womanreader http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/forsooth-tis-two-brief-excerpts-from-laura-amy-schlitzs-good-masters-sweet-ladies-so-that-thou-may-know-the-2008-newbery-medal-winner/#comment-5428 Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:15:25 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/forsooth-tis-two-brief-excerpts-from-laura-amy-schlitzs-good-masters-sweet-ladies-so-that-thou-may-know-the-2008-newbery-medal-winner/#comment-5428 HI,
Through this entry I found your question about Christian themes keeping books from winning awards. Do you have any thoughts about the Newbery Honor winner “Feathers” by Jacqueline Woodson? After reading it, my first thought was that the Christianity in the story would keep it from much publicity!

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