From: Ginny Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 08:25:00 -600

The annual CCBC Coretta Scott King Writing Award Discussion was held last evening with active participation and thoughtful discussion by a large number of Madison School District teachers & library media specialists (all elementary & middle school levels) as well as an area library media specialist, a public librarian and CCBC staff. The actual award outcome will be announced in Washington, D.C., on Monday morning, February 17. Our consensus following almost three hours of discussing ten books written by African-American authors: Winner: Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt, 1996)
- middle & senior high school level Honor Books (alphabetical order): 1. Kofi and His Magic written by Maya Angelou with photographs by Margaret Courtney-Clarke. (Clarkson-Potter, 1996) - preschool & elementary school level 2. Rebels against Slavery: American Slave Revolts by Patricia C. and Fredrick L. McKissack (Scholastic, 1996) - middle & senior high school level 3. Slam! by Walter Dean Myers. (Scholastic, 1996) - middle & senior high school level
******************************************************************* 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
Received on Thu 16 Jan 1997 08:25:00 AM CST