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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 22:26:48 -0600
The 1998 Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winners and Honor Books will be formally presented to the honored authors, illustrators or their representatives by the Jane Addams Peace Association on Friday, December 11, 3:30-5:00p.m. This event will take place at the Church Center for the United Nations, 777 United Nations Plaza, 2nd floor, (corner of 44th Street and 1st Avenue), in New York City.
If you are interested in attending this awards event, please RSVP with your name and daytime phone number by phoning Eurydice Kelley
(212h2?30).
The 1998 Winners and Honor Books are:
Winner, Picture Book Category - Seven Brave Women written by Betsy Hearne and illustrated by Bethanne Andersen (Greenwillow Books, 1997) Honor Book, Picture Book Category - Celebrating Families written and illustrated with photographs by Rosmarie Hausherr (Scholastic Press, 1997) Honor Book, Picture Book Category - Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story written by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee with an afterword by Hiroki Sugihara. (Lee & Low Books, 1997)
Winner, Longer Book Category - Habibi written by Naomi Shihab Nye (Simon
& Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997) Honor Book, Longer Book Category - The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child written by Francisco Jimenez (University of New Mexico Press, 1997) Honor Book, Longer Book Category - Seedfolks written by Paul Fleischman
(HarperCollins, 1997)
The Jane Addams Children's Book Awards have been presented annually since 1953 (Longer Book Category) and 1993 (Picture Book Category) by the Jane Addams Peace Association, Inc., to the children's books of the preceding year that most effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice and world community. The Jane Addams Peace Association is the educational affiliate of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, founded in 1915 with Jane Addams, the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, as the first WILPF president.
Seals to be placed on copies of the winning books may be purchased from the Jane Addams Peace Association. For information, inquire at the Jane Addams Peace Association, 777 United Nations Plaza, 6th Floor, New York City, NY 10017521 (212h2?30.
********************************************************* 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 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706 USA
Received on Tue 01 Dec 1998 10:26:48 PM CST
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 22:26:48 -0600
The 1998 Jane Addams Children's Book Award Winners and Honor Books will be formally presented to the honored authors, illustrators or their representatives by the Jane Addams Peace Association on Friday, December 11, 3:30-5:00p.m. This event will take place at the Church Center for the United Nations, 777 United Nations Plaza, 2nd floor, (corner of 44th Street and 1st Avenue), in New York City.
If you are interested in attending this awards event, please RSVP with your name and daytime phone number by phoning Eurydice Kelley
(212h2?30).
The 1998 Winners and Honor Books are:
Winner, Picture Book Category - Seven Brave Women written by Betsy Hearne and illustrated by Bethanne Andersen (Greenwillow Books, 1997) Honor Book, Picture Book Category - Celebrating Families written and illustrated with photographs by Rosmarie Hausherr (Scholastic Press, 1997) Honor Book, Picture Book Category - Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story written by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee with an afterword by Hiroki Sugihara. (Lee & Low Books, 1997)
Winner, Longer Book Category - Habibi written by Naomi Shihab Nye (Simon
& Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997) Honor Book, Longer Book Category - The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child written by Francisco Jimenez (University of New Mexico Press, 1997) Honor Book, Longer Book Category - Seedfolks written by Paul Fleischman
(HarperCollins, 1997)
The Jane Addams Children's Book Awards have been presented annually since 1953 (Longer Book Category) and 1993 (Picture Book Category) by the Jane Addams Peace Association, Inc., to the children's books of the preceding year that most effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice and world community. The Jane Addams Peace Association is the educational affiliate of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, founded in 1915 with Jane Addams, the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, as the first WILPF president.
Seals to be placed on copies of the winning books may be purchased from the Jane Addams Peace Association. For information, inquire at the Jane Addams Peace Association, 777 United Nations Plaza, 6th Floor, New York City, NY 10017521 (212h2?30.
********************************************************* 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 4290 Helen C. White Hall, 600 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706 USA
Received on Tue 01 Dec 1998 10:26:48 PM CST
