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From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:57:00 -600
I've been asked to report on the outcomes of the CCBC Coretta Scott King Book Discussions, and I'm happy to do this! Both lively discussion evenings involved teachers, school library media specialists, graduate students, a public librarian and CCBC staff. I'll report the Writing Discusion Outcome here, and I'll write a separate message about the Illustration Discussion. The CCBC Writing Discussion concluded with an overwhelmingly large number of votes cast for the winner, which was The Well by Mildred Taylor. The actual award winner will be determined by a jury appointed by the chair of the Coretta Scott King Awards Task Force, which is associated with the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association. The jury's decision will be announced on January 22, 1996, at the ALSC/ALA Press Conference.
CCBC Coretta Scott King Award Discussion: Writing (Dec. 12, 1995) THE WINNER: The Well, a novella written by Mildred Taylor (Dial) Honor Books: A. Like Sisters on the Homefront written by Rita
Williams-Garcia (Lodestar)
B. The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963 written by
Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte) Other books discussed that evening were:
- A Blessing in Disguise, a novel by Eleanor E. Tate (Delacorte)
- Darkness, a picture book written by Mildred Pitts Walter and
illustrated by Marcia Jameson (Simon & Schuster)
- From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, a novel by Jacqueline Woodson
(Scholastic)
- Gingerbread Days, poems written by Joyce Carol Thomas and
illustrated by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins)
- Her Stories; African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True
Tales retold by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and
Diane Dillon (Scholastic)
- Hold Fast to Dreams, a novel written by Andrea Davis Pinkney
(Morrow)
- Humming Whispers, a novel written by Angela Johnson (Orchard)
- If You Please, President Lincoln, a novel written by Harriette
Gillem Robinet (Atheneum)
- It's Kwanzaa Time! an anthology and activities book created by
Linda and Clay Goss with illustrations by award-winning artists
(Putnam)
- More Than Anything Else, a picture book written by Marie Bradby and
illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet (Orchard)
- Papa Tells Chita a Story, a picture book written by Elizabeth
Fitzgerald Howard and illustrated by Floyd Cooper (Simon &
Schuster)
- The Story of the Three Kingdoms, an original picture book tale
written by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Ashley Bryan
(HarperCollins)
- Tremonisha written from the Scott Joplin opera by Angela Shelf
Medearis and illustrated by Michael Bryant (Henry Holt) The above books and many others are eligible this year for the Coretta Scott King: Writing Award. It will be interesting to see which books are selected for this important award. To be eligible, a writer must be African-American. Other information about eligibility for this award can be found in THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARDS BOOK; FROM VISION TO REALITY edited by Henrietta M. Smith (ALA, 1994).
.. Ginny
******************************************************************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison FAX: 608&2I33
Received on Mon 18 Dec 1995 02:57:00 PM CST
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 14:57:00 -600
I've been asked to report on the outcomes of the CCBC Coretta Scott King Book Discussions, and I'm happy to do this! Both lively discussion evenings involved teachers, school library media specialists, graduate students, a public librarian and CCBC staff. I'll report the Writing Discusion Outcome here, and I'll write a separate message about the Illustration Discussion. The CCBC Writing Discussion concluded with an overwhelmingly large number of votes cast for the winner, which was The Well by Mildred Taylor. The actual award winner will be determined by a jury appointed by the chair of the Coretta Scott King Awards Task Force, which is associated with the Social Responsibilities Round Table of the American Library Association. The jury's decision will be announced on January 22, 1996, at the ALSC/ALA Press Conference.
CCBC Coretta Scott King Award Discussion: Writing (Dec. 12, 1995) THE WINNER: The Well, a novella written by Mildred Taylor (Dial) Honor Books: A. Like Sisters on the Homefront written by Rita
Williams-Garcia (Lodestar)
B. The Watsons Go To Birmingham - 1963 written by
Christopher Paul Curtis (Delacorte) Other books discussed that evening were:
- A Blessing in Disguise, a novel by Eleanor E. Tate (Delacorte)
- Darkness, a picture book written by Mildred Pitts Walter and
illustrated by Marcia Jameson (Simon & Schuster)
- From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun, a novel by Jacqueline Woodson
(Scholastic)
- Gingerbread Days, poems written by Joyce Carol Thomas and
illustrated by Floyd Cooper (HarperCollins)
- Her Stories; African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True
Tales retold by Virginia Hamilton and illustrated by Leo and
Diane Dillon (Scholastic)
- Hold Fast to Dreams, a novel written by Andrea Davis Pinkney
(Morrow)
- Humming Whispers, a novel written by Angela Johnson (Orchard)
- If You Please, President Lincoln, a novel written by Harriette
Gillem Robinet (Atheneum)
- It's Kwanzaa Time! an anthology and activities book created by
Linda and Clay Goss with illustrations by award-winning artists
(Putnam)
- More Than Anything Else, a picture book written by Marie Bradby and
illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet (Orchard)
- Papa Tells Chita a Story, a picture book written by Elizabeth
Fitzgerald Howard and illustrated by Floyd Cooper (Simon &
Schuster)
- The Story of the Three Kingdoms, an original picture book tale
written by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Ashley Bryan
(HarperCollins)
- Tremonisha written from the Scott Joplin opera by Angela Shelf
Medearis and illustrated by Michael Bryant (Henry Holt) The above books and many others are eligible this year for the Coretta Scott King: Writing Award. It will be interesting to see which books are selected for this important award. To be eligible, a writer must be African-American. Other information about eligibility for this award can be found in THE CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARDS BOOK; FROM VISION TO REALITY edited by Henrietta M. Smith (ALA, 1994).
.. Ginny
******************************************************************* Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison FAX: 608&2I33
Received on Mon 18 Dec 1995 02:57:00 PM CST
