From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 13:41:24 -0500

Thanks, Michael, for providing us with the interesting publishing history of "Junk." I'm curious: Did Penguin issue the paperback before or after the Carnegie shortlist was announced?

I tried to track down the cited articles on each newspaper's webpage and they don't seem to be readily available on-line any longer. If you get a chance to give us some quotes from your cuttings file, it would be greatly appreciated by all, I'm sure.

One thing that becomes clear when you mention the outcry after the Carnegie shortlist was announced is how different are the Carnegie Award proceedings from the American equivalent, the Newbery Medal. With the Newbery, everything is hush-hush until the final winner is announced
(then we have the outcry!). I can't imagine what it would be like for a jury to have the press hounding them during their final decision-making proceedings.

Since it seems to be so different, can you tell us a little about how the Carnegie Medal winner is chosen or refer us to a web site where this is described?

Kathleen Horning



Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison Room 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706 Telephone: 608&3720 FAX: 608&2I33 ccbcinfo at mail.soemadison.wisc.edu www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Tue 02 Jun 1998 01:41:24 PM CDT