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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:32:22 -0600
Megan Schliesman, Katy Horning and I just returned from the American Library Association Midwinter Conference at which the annual award winning books and publishers were announced on Monday morning. We were glad to see some of the CCBC-NET community there once again in "real time" and to meet some of you for the first time.
Like so many who attended this ALA conference in New Orleans, Megan, Katy and I crowded into the huge room where the press conference was held on 1/12. Like others we clapped, cheered and - at times - gasped with surprise at some of the announcements. These are always electric moments. You received the complete list on CCBC-NET yesterday. I think it's accurate to report that announcements of selections for Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King/Illustration Awards were met with especially loud applause and even cheers.
As you probably recall, Out of the Dust (Newbery) and Rapunzel
(Caldecott) were mentioned repeatedly throughout the December-January CCBC-NET sharing of personal favorites and in reports of grassroots discussions across the nation. Perhaps the award to Javaka Steptoe's In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall (CSK/Illus) was a greater surprise to those assembled yesterday, but the news certainly was received with loud acclamation.
The Wilder Award for Russell Freedman garnered sustained applause, and the naming of Arbuthnot Lecturer Lillian Gerhardt was also happy news in general. This is not to say that the other were unpopular, not at all, but to provide a sense of the moment.
One more happy announcement was heard later in the day at the ALSC Directors' Board meeting: the winner of the 1998 William Morris Distinguished Service Award. This award will be presented in June to the very distinguished Mr. Spencer Shaw of Seattle, Washington, who graduated long ago from the Library School at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and who not long ago received an honorary degree from UW-Madison.
Let's begin discussing the Caldecott Award winner and Honor Books. We realize that some of you have not seen all or any of these books and so just chime in according to the book(s) with which you're familiar. Please refer to yesterday's message listing the Caldecott books, and share your responses to the news as well as your experiences in using any of these books with children in your school, library or home. Megan, Katy and I will announce a weekly schedule for the CCBC award book discussions tomorrow. Cheers, 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
Received on Tue 13 Jan 1998 04:32:22 PM CST
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 16:32:22 -0600
Megan Schliesman, Katy Horning and I just returned from the American Library Association Midwinter Conference at which the annual award winning books and publishers were announced on Monday morning. We were glad to see some of the CCBC-NET community there once again in "real time" and to meet some of you for the first time.
Like so many who attended this ALA conference in New Orleans, Megan, Katy and I crowded into the huge room where the press conference was held on 1/12. Like others we clapped, cheered and - at times - gasped with surprise at some of the announcements. These are always electric moments. You received the complete list on CCBC-NET yesterday. I think it's accurate to report that announcements of selections for Newbery, Caldecott, and Coretta Scott King/Illustration Awards were met with especially loud applause and even cheers.
As you probably recall, Out of the Dust (Newbery) and Rapunzel
(Caldecott) were mentioned repeatedly throughout the December-January CCBC-NET sharing of personal favorites and in reports of grassroots discussions across the nation. Perhaps the award to Javaka Steptoe's In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall (CSK/Illus) was a greater surprise to those assembled yesterday, but the news certainly was received with loud acclamation.
The Wilder Award for Russell Freedman garnered sustained applause, and the naming of Arbuthnot Lecturer Lillian Gerhardt was also happy news in general. This is not to say that the other were unpopular, not at all, but to provide a sense of the moment.
One more happy announcement was heard later in the day at the ALSC Directors' Board meeting: the winner of the 1998 William Morris Distinguished Service Award. This award will be presented in June to the very distinguished Mr. Spencer Shaw of Seattle, Washington, who graduated long ago from the Library School at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and who not long ago received an honorary degree from UW-Madison.
Let's begin discussing the Caldecott Award winner and Honor Books. We realize that some of you have not seen all or any of these books and so just chime in according to the book(s) with which you're familiar. Please refer to yesterday's message listing the Caldecott books, and share your responses to the news as well as your experiences in using any of these books with children in your school, library or home. Megan, Katy and I will announce a weekly schedule for the CCBC award book discussions tomorrow. Cheers, 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
Received on Tue 13 Jan 1998 04:32:22 PM CST
