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1999 Caldecott Award Winner: Snowflake Bentley
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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:52:57 -0600
The announcement of Snowflake Bentley as the 1999 Caldecott Award winner yesterday morning in Philadelphia provided one of the genuine surprises of the ALA/ALSC press conference.
This handsome picture book is both a story and a biography. It's illlustrated with woodcuts, handtinted with watercolors by Mary Azarian to accompany Jacqueline Briggs Martin's writing. It begins, "In the days when farmers worked with ox and sled and cut the dark with lantern light, there lived a boy who loved snow more than anything else in the world."
This boy was Willie Bentley, who was born on February 9, 1865, on a farm in Jericho, Vermont. Willie loved butterflies, and he could net them. He loved apple blossoms and he could pick them to show his mother. But he could not net or pick or collect snowflakes - until he figured out a way to photograph them. This he did as a boy, a teenager, and throughout his adult life. The story and the biography are paralled on most pages in an imaginative pagedesign that makes it possible to read either one, or both.
It's wonderful to learn about Willie Bentley, and it's equally exciting to realize the wonder of this completely amazing universe as we see Willie examining and enjoying the completely unique snowflake he documented over time.
I know there are individuals within the CCBC-Net community who know the book Snowflake Bentley very well and want to share what they particularly appreciate about it, or who know Mary Azarian's artwork in other books and want to tell others about this fine artist who lives in Plainfield, Vermont, not far from Willie Bentley's home. Please step up and tell us more... And if you have questions or comments of any kind, please speak up, as well, because we want to discuss the Caldecott Honor Books, too, in a few more days... Cheers,
Ginny
*************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison 600 N. Park St., Madison, WI 63706) CCBC phone: 608&3720
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Received on Tue 02 Feb 1999 05:52:57 PM CST
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:52:57 -0600
The announcement of Snowflake Bentley as the 1999 Caldecott Award winner yesterday morning in Philadelphia provided one of the genuine surprises of the ALA/ALSC press conference.
This handsome picture book is both a story and a biography. It's illlustrated with woodcuts, handtinted with watercolors by Mary Azarian to accompany Jacqueline Briggs Martin's writing. It begins, "In the days when farmers worked with ox and sled and cut the dark with lantern light, there lived a boy who loved snow more than anything else in the world."
This boy was Willie Bentley, who was born on February 9, 1865, on a farm in Jericho, Vermont. Willie loved butterflies, and he could net them. He loved apple blossoms and he could pick them to show his mother. But he could not net or pick or collect snowflakes - until he figured out a way to photograph them. This he did as a boy, a teenager, and throughout his adult life. The story and the biography are paralled on most pages in an imaginative pagedesign that makes it possible to read either one, or both.
It's wonderful to learn about Willie Bentley, and it's equally exciting to realize the wonder of this completely amazing universe as we see Willie examining and enjoying the completely unique snowflake he documented over time.
I know there are individuals within the CCBC-Net community who know the book Snowflake Bentley very well and want to share what they particularly appreciate about it, or who know Mary Azarian's artwork in other books and want to tell others about this fine artist who lives in Plainfield, Vermont, not far from Willie Bentley's home. Please step up and tell us more... And if you have questions or comments of any kind, please speak up, as well, because we want to discuss the Caldecott Honor Books, too, in a few more days... Cheers,
Ginny
*************************************** Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.soemadison.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) A Library of the School of Education (www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/) University of Wisconsin - Madison 600 N. Park St., Madison, WI 63706) CCBC phone: 608&3720
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Received on Tue 02 Feb 1999 05:52:57 PM CST
