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1999 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards & Honor Books
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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 17:09:39 -0500
The 1999 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards & Honor Books will be celebrated on Friday, November 5, in an event beginning at 1:30pm at the Jane Addams Peace Association, 777 United Nations Plaza, in New York City. Put this date on your calendar now, if you are interested in attending this awards event and reception honoring the authors and artists. All interested individuals are welcome.
The Jane Addams Children's Book Awards are given to books published during the previous year which, as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence, most effectively address themes or topics promoting peace, social justice, world community, and/or equality of the sexes and all races.
A complete press release is available from the Jane Addams Peace Association, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 777 United Nations Plaze, 6yh Floor, New York, NY 10017521 (phone 212h2?30) or (japa at igc.apc.org)
1999 WINNER - LONGER BOOK CATEGORY :
"Bat 6" written by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Scholastic Press)
HONOR BOOKS - LONGER BOOK CATEGORY (listed in alphabetical order) :
"The Heart of a Chief" written by Joseph Bruchac (Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Putnam, Inc.)
"No More Strangers Now" by written by Tim McKee with photographs by Anne Blackshaw (A Melanie Kroupa Book / DK Ink)
"Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange" written by Elizabeth Partridge with photographs by Dorothea Lange and others
(Viking / Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers)
1999 WINNER - PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY :
"Painted Words / Spoken Memories: Marianthe's Story" written and illustrated by Aliki (Greenwillow Books)
HONOR BOOKS - PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY (listed in alphabetical order) :
"Hey, Little Ant" written by Phillip & Hannah Hoose and illustrated by Debbie Tilley (Tricycle Press / Ten Speed Press)
"i see the rhythm" written by Toyomi Igus with paintings by Michele Wood (Children's Book Press)
"This Land Is Your Land" words and music by Woody Guthrie with paintings by Kathy Jakobsen (Little, Brown and Company)
Members of the 1999 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Committee are Marilyn Hurley Bimstein (Seattle, Washington); Rusty True Browder
(Brookline, Massachusetts); Mary Elting Folsom (Boulder, Colorado); Ginny Moore Kruse, Chair (Madison, Wisconsin); Debby Langerman
(Indianapolis, Indiana); Serena Murray (San Jose, California); Cathie Reed (New Market, Maryland); Suzanne Martell (Harwich, Massachusetts); Patty Wong (Oakland, California); Pat Wiser (Sewanee, Tennessee); and Laurie Wright (Juneau, Alaska). Regional reading and discussion groups participated as possible with many of the committee members throughout the evaluation and selection process for the 1999 awards.
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu)
Received on Sat 04 Sep 1999 05:09:39 PM CDT
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 17:09:39 -0500
The 1999 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards & Honor Books will be celebrated on Friday, November 5, in an event beginning at 1:30pm at the Jane Addams Peace Association, 777 United Nations Plaza, in New York City. Put this date on your calendar now, if you are interested in attending this awards event and reception honoring the authors and artists. All interested individuals are welcome.
The Jane Addams Children's Book Awards are given to books published during the previous year which, as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence, most effectively address themes or topics promoting peace, social justice, world community, and/or equality of the sexes and all races.
A complete press release is available from the Jane Addams Peace Association, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 777 United Nations Plaze, 6yh Floor, New York, NY 10017521 (phone 212h2?30) or (japa at igc.apc.org)
1999 WINNER - LONGER BOOK CATEGORY :
"Bat 6" written by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Scholastic Press)
HONOR BOOKS - LONGER BOOK CATEGORY (listed in alphabetical order) :
"The Heart of a Chief" written by Joseph Bruchac (Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Putnam, Inc.)
"No More Strangers Now" by written by Tim McKee with photographs by Anne Blackshaw (A Melanie Kroupa Book / DK Ink)
"Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange" written by Elizabeth Partridge with photographs by Dorothea Lange and others
(Viking / Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers)
1999 WINNER - PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY :
"Painted Words / Spoken Memories: Marianthe's Story" written and illustrated by Aliki (Greenwillow Books)
HONOR BOOKS - PICTURE BOOK CATEGORY (listed in alphabetical order) :
"Hey, Little Ant" written by Phillip & Hannah Hoose and illustrated by Debbie Tilley (Tricycle Press / Ten Speed Press)
"i see the rhythm" written by Toyomi Igus with paintings by Michele Wood (Children's Book Press)
"This Land Is Your Land" words and music by Woody Guthrie with paintings by Kathy Jakobsen (Little, Brown and Company)
Members of the 1999 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Committee are Marilyn Hurley Bimstein (Seattle, Washington); Rusty True Browder
(Brookline, Massachusetts); Mary Elting Folsom (Boulder, Colorado); Ginny Moore Kruse, Chair (Madison, Wisconsin); Debby Langerman
(Indianapolis, Indiana); Serena Murray (San Jose, California); Cathie Reed (New Market, Maryland); Suzanne Martell (Harwich, Massachusetts); Patty Wong (Oakland, California); Pat Wiser (Sewanee, Tennessee); and Laurie Wright (Juneau, Alaska). Regional reading and discussion groups participated as possible with many of the committee members throughout the evaluation and selection process for the 1999 awards.
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu)
Received on Sat 04 Sep 1999 05:09:39 PM CDT
