Background
Heller, Janet Ruth was born on July 8, 1949 in Milwaukee. Daughter of William Charles and Joan Ruth Heller.
( How the Moon Regained Her Shape is a fiction picture ...)
How the Moon Regained Her Shape is a fiction picture book for children. Janet Ruth Heller has written a legend influenced by Native American folktales that explains why the moon changes shape and helps children deal with bullies. The sun insults the moon, and the moon feels so badly hurt that she shrinks and leaves the sky. The moon turns to her comet friend and her many friends on earth to comfort her. Her friends include rabbits and Native Americans. Then she regains her full shape, happiness, and self-esteem, and she returns to her orbit. An educational appendix gives advice about bullying, scientific information about the moon, and ideas for related activities for children. This book has won four national awards for its lyrical writing and its wonderful artwork. Illustrator Ben Hodson won a Benjamin Franklin Award for this book's artwork in 2007. How the Moon Regained Her Shape also won a Book Sense Pick (2006), a Children's Choices award (2007), and a Gold Medal in the Moonbeam Children's Book Awards (2007). The book was also a finalist for the Oregon Reading Association's 2009 Patricia Gallagher Picture Book Award. Children will learn from this book 1) that they need to tell friends and adults when bullying occurs, 2) that a bully's insults are seldom true, 3) that children will recover from abuse, and 4) that we can be friends with people who are different from us. Bullying thrives in secrecy , and most kids feel intimidated by abuse. Adults will learn that many children need the help and advice of friends and adults to stop bullying and to recover from the loss of trust and self-esteem that such harassment causes.
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( Many nineteenth-century writers believed that the best ...)
Many nineteenth-century writers believed that the best tragedy should be read rather than performed, and they have often been attacked for their views by later critics. Through detailed analysis of Coleridge's Shakespearean Criticism, Lamb's On the Tragedies of Shakespeare, and Hazlitt's Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, Heller shows that in their concern with educating the reader these Romantics anticipate twentieth-century reader response criticism, educational theory, and film criticism.
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English language writing and literature educator
Heller, Janet Ruth was born on July 8, 1949 in Milwaukee. Daughter of William Charles and Joan Ruth Heller.
Student, Oberlin College, 1967-1970; Bachelor, University of Wisconsin, 1971; Master of Arts, University of Wisconsin, 1973; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1987.
Coordinator writing program, University of Chicago, 1976-1981; lecturer creative writing, University of Chicago, 1981-1982; instructor English, Northern Illinois U., DeKalb, 1982-1988; assistant Professor of English, Nazareth College, Kalamazoo, 1989-1990; assistant Professor of English, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan, 1990-1997; assistant Professor of English, Albion College, since 1998; assistant professor english department, Western Michigan U., since 1999.
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( How the Moon Regained Her Shape is a fiction picture ...)
President sisterhood Congregation of Moses, since 2004. Member Modern Language Association (regional delegate 1985-1987), Midwest Modern Language Association, Michigan College English Association (campus representative since 1990, vice president since 2004), National Council Teachers English, North America Society Study of Romanticism, Society Study of Midwestern Literature (board directors 1999-2006, president 2003).
Married Michael Alexander Krischer, June 13, 1982.