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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:30:41 -0600
Thank you to Janice Del Negro for clarifying how books are considered for the annual ALA awards. I just want to add to her message that Harlem, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book, was also a Caldecott Honor Book this year, and it was wonderful to see this distinguished book doubly honored! I love the energy of the illustrations in Harlem--I think they stand out on their own, but have an incredible synergy with the text.
Likewise, I think Javaka Steptoe's images for In Daddy's Arms, the CSK Illustrator Winner, are astounding in the way in which they extend the emotional experience of the poems that they illustrate. WIth his diverse range of visual interpretations of the poems in the book, I truly felt I was looking at from-the-heart responses to each poem.
I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has used any of the CSK Illustrator books with children or young adults--to me they are all so visually compelling and I'm wondering how young people have responded to the art.
Megan Schliesman (schliesman at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706 608&2?03
All books nominated by ALSC members for Newbery and Caldecott are considered by the committee; the committee, on the other hand, gets to read everything submitted to them by publishers and make recommendations of their own.
I need to be clearer, here, I think. Publishers submit everything they think would even have a remote chance of being nominated for discussion to the committee; the committee reads everything they get (which is usually just about everything that comes out in a publishing year, which I can tell you from personal experience is a *lot* of work) and then individual committee members nominate the books they wish to discuss or believe worthy of discussion under the medal criteria.
Any member of ALSC who has a title they wish to nominate for discussion by either committee can do so by sending the title to the chair of the committee, which would immediately put it "on the table" for disussion.
Since both the nominations and discussions are confidential and closed, your question as stated is unanswerable.
But it's a good one.
Janice BCCB
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Violet Harris wrote:
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Received on Tue 24 Feb 1998 10:30:41 AM CST
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 10:30:41 -0600
Thank you to Janice Del Negro for clarifying how books are considered for the annual ALA awards. I just want to add to her message that Harlem, a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book, was also a Caldecott Honor Book this year, and it was wonderful to see this distinguished book doubly honored! I love the energy of the illustrations in Harlem--I think they stand out on their own, but have an incredible synergy with the text.
Likewise, I think Javaka Steptoe's images for In Daddy's Arms, the CSK Illustrator Winner, are astounding in the way in which they extend the emotional experience of the poems that they illustrate. WIth his diverse range of visual interpretations of the poems in the book, I truly felt I was looking at from-the-heart responses to each poem.
I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has used any of the CSK Illustrator books with children or young adults--to me they are all so visually compelling and I'm wondering how young people have responded to the art.
Megan Schliesman (schliesman at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706 608&2?03
All books nominated by ALSC members for Newbery and Caldecott are considered by the committee; the committee, on the other hand, gets to read everything submitted to them by publishers and make recommendations of their own.
I need to be clearer, here, I think. Publishers submit everything they think would even have a remote chance of being nominated for discussion to the committee; the committee reads everything they get (which is usually just about everything that comes out in a publishing year, which I can tell you from personal experience is a *lot* of work) and then individual committee members nominate the books they wish to discuss or believe worthy of discussion under the medal criteria.
Any member of ALSC who has a title they wish to nominate for discussion by either committee can do so by sending the title to the chair of the committee, which would immediately put it "on the table" for disussion.
Since both the nominations and discussions are confidential and closed, your question as stated is unanswerable.
But it's a good one.
Janice BCCB
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Violet Harris wrote:
were
Received on Tue 24 Feb 1998 10:30:41 AM CST
