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Jane Addams Children's Book Awards event: Friday, Nov. 5
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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 12:01:31 -0600
The Jane Addams Peace Association will host its annual awards celebration at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, November 5, at 777 United Nations Plaza, New York City. Eight outstanding children's books published during 1998 will be honored.
There is no charge for attending this event at which many of the book creators and/or representatives from their publishers will be present.
Anyone interested in attending the 1999 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards presentation or wanting information about purchasing award seals may contact Dilys Purdy, Jane Addams Peace Association Director by phone (212h2?30); fax (212(6?11); or e-mail
(japa at igc.apc.org).
The two winners of the 1999 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards are the novel "Bat 6" by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Scholastic Press) and the picture book "Painted Words / Spoken Memories: Marianthe's Story" written and illustrated by Aliki (Greenwillow Books).
All books honored through this award process meet all standards for excellence as well as effectively expressing a theme promoting peace, social justice, world community, gender and/or equality of the sexes or races.
The 1999 Honor Books in the Longer Book category are "The Heart of a Chief" written by Joseph Bruchac (Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Putnam); "No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa" by written by Tim McKee with photographs by Anne Blackshaw (A Melanie Kroupa Book / DK Ink); and "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).
The 1999 Honor Books in the Picture Book category are "Hey, Little Ant" written by Phillip & Hannah Hoose and illustrated by Debbie Tilley (Tricycle 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).
Multiple voices relate the story in "Bat 6," Wolff's complex novel involving an annual sixth grade girls softball game competition in rural Oregon during 1949. A violent act by a troubled sixth grader affected by society's racism toward Japanese Americans creates growing tension within the cinematic narrative. Wolff examines themes related to war and peace, discrimination, women's roles, and prejudice in a superb work of fiction containing no easy answers.
The 1999 picture book winner, "Painted Words / Spoken Memories" combines two stories about the same little girl whose family just immigrated to the U.S. from an unnamed country. Although Marianthe speaks no English when she begins school, her teacher addresses classroom cruelty and understands that Marianthe's inner strengths make her able to communicate through her pictures. To read Aliki's unusual, sensitive, beautiful book and understand more about a child whose life has been turned upside down, young readers become involved by turning the physical book upside down.
Joseph Bruchac wrote the Honor Book "The Heart of a Chief," a novel featuring Chris, a sixth grade boy who just moved from the Penacook reservation to a public school. Matters generally unaddressed in today's non-Native society affect Chris: nicknames, mascots, alcohol abuse, casino development, stereotypes of Native women, and land use. Bruchac wove historical issues into a contemporary story enriched by cultural details and exquisitely written passages.
The Honor Book, "No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa," contains McKee's interviews conducted in 1995? with twelve South African teenagers. Eight of the twelve are Black, and their accounts are presented as first-person narratives with each person telling her or his life before and after the end of apartheid. All have high hopes for a future where opportunity, freedom and equality with replace poverty, brutality and oppression. Blackshaw's stunning black-and-white photographs bring the youths to life in this important record of their experiences and feelings.
The third Honor Book, "Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange" was created by Elizabeth Partridge who as a child knew her subject personally. Partridge's interviews with family members and friends, access to a large body of unpublished material, and keen eye for the photographs most likely to bring this unusual, high?hieving woman to life for young readers contribute to the excellence of this biography. Readers gain a strong sense of the famous photographer and the Depression years when her works documented poverty in this nation.
"Hey, Little Ant," one of the Honor Books in the Picture Book category, began as lyrics for a song performed by Phillip and Hannah Hoose, a father and young daughter. Transformed into the text for a picture book, their words and Debbie Tilley's artwork express one way for small-sized preschoolers without societal power to become engaged with the idea that small-sized non-human life has value.
Artwork by Michele Wood accompanies Toyomi Igus's words to create the Honor Book "i see the rhythm," a visual history of African American music. An inventive graphic design incorporates a time line, Igus's text and Wood's art to create an beautifully developed portrayal of history and culture. "i see the rhythm" offers a sophisticated aesthetic experience and provides distinctively developed information.
The Honor Book "This Land Is Your Land" contains all of Woody Guthrie's lyrics for his famous song. Because of the archives managed by Guthrie's daughter Nora and access to other resources, artist Kathy Jakobsen had unique primary source to inspire her development of the artwork. Jakobsen integrated an abundance of visual history about Guthrie's life and the nation's economic times during his active travels within her detailed full-color paintings of landscapes across the nation.
The 1999 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards were selected by a national jury chaired by Ginny Moore Kruse, School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Members of the 1999 jury were Marilyn Hurley Bimstein (Seattle, Washington); Rusty True Browder
(Brookline, Massachusetts); Mary Elting Folsom (Boulder, Colorado); Debby Langerman (Indianapolis, Indiana); Suzanne Martell (Harwich, Massachusetts); Serena Murray (San Jose, California); Cathie Reed (New Market, Maryland); Pat Wiser (Sewanee, Tennessee); Patty Wong
(Oakland, California); 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.
The Jane Addams Children's Book Awards have been given annually since 1953.
Received on Mon 01 Nov 1999 12:01:31 PM CST
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 12:01:31 -0600
The Jane Addams Peace Association will host its annual awards celebration at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, November 5, at 777 United Nations Plaza, New York City. Eight outstanding children's books published during 1998 will be honored.
There is no charge for attending this event at which many of the book creators and/or representatives from their publishers will be present.
Anyone interested in attending the 1999 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards presentation or wanting information about purchasing award seals may contact Dilys Purdy, Jane Addams Peace Association Director by phone (212h2?30); fax (212(6?11); or e-mail
(japa at igc.apc.org).
The two winners of the 1999 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards are the novel "Bat 6" by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Scholastic Press) and the picture book "Painted Words / Spoken Memories: Marianthe's Story" written and illustrated by Aliki (Greenwillow Books).
All books honored through this award process meet all standards for excellence as well as effectively expressing a theme promoting peace, social justice, world community, gender and/or equality of the sexes or races.
The 1999 Honor Books in the Longer Book category are "The Heart of a Chief" written by Joseph Bruchac (Dial Books for Young Readers / Penguin Putnam); "No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa" by written by Tim McKee with photographs by Anne Blackshaw (A Melanie Kroupa Book / DK Ink); and "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).
The 1999 Honor Books in the Picture Book category are "Hey, Little Ant" written by Phillip & Hannah Hoose and illustrated by Debbie Tilley (Tricycle 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).
Multiple voices relate the story in "Bat 6," Wolff's complex novel involving an annual sixth grade girls softball game competition in rural Oregon during 1949. A violent act by a troubled sixth grader affected by society's racism toward Japanese Americans creates growing tension within the cinematic narrative. Wolff examines themes related to war and peace, discrimination, women's roles, and prejudice in a superb work of fiction containing no easy answers.
The 1999 picture book winner, "Painted Words / Spoken Memories" combines two stories about the same little girl whose family just immigrated to the U.S. from an unnamed country. Although Marianthe speaks no English when she begins school, her teacher addresses classroom cruelty and understands that Marianthe's inner strengths make her able to communicate through her pictures. To read Aliki's unusual, sensitive, beautiful book and understand more about a child whose life has been turned upside down, young readers become involved by turning the physical book upside down.
Joseph Bruchac wrote the Honor Book "The Heart of a Chief," a novel featuring Chris, a sixth grade boy who just moved from the Penacook reservation to a public school. Matters generally unaddressed in today's non-Native society affect Chris: nicknames, mascots, alcohol abuse, casino development, stereotypes of Native women, and land use. Bruchac wove historical issues into a contemporary story enriched by cultural details and exquisitely written passages.
The Honor Book, "No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa," contains McKee's interviews conducted in 1995? with twelve South African teenagers. Eight of the twelve are Black, and their accounts are presented as first-person narratives with each person telling her or his life before and after the end of apartheid. All have high hopes for a future where opportunity, freedom and equality with replace poverty, brutality and oppression. Blackshaw's stunning black-and-white photographs bring the youths to life in this important record of their experiences and feelings.
The third Honor Book, "Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange" was created by Elizabeth Partridge who as a child knew her subject personally. Partridge's interviews with family members and friends, access to a large body of unpublished material, and keen eye for the photographs most likely to bring this unusual, high?hieving woman to life for young readers contribute to the excellence of this biography. Readers gain a strong sense of the famous photographer and the Depression years when her works documented poverty in this nation.
"Hey, Little Ant," one of the Honor Books in the Picture Book category, began as lyrics for a song performed by Phillip and Hannah Hoose, a father and young daughter. Transformed into the text for a picture book, their words and Debbie Tilley's artwork express one way for small-sized preschoolers without societal power to become engaged with the idea that small-sized non-human life has value.
Artwork by Michele Wood accompanies Toyomi Igus's words to create the Honor Book "i see the rhythm," a visual history of African American music. An inventive graphic design incorporates a time line, Igus's text and Wood's art to create an beautifully developed portrayal of history and culture. "i see the rhythm" offers a sophisticated aesthetic experience and provides distinctively developed information.
The Honor Book "This Land Is Your Land" contains all of Woody Guthrie's lyrics for his famous song. Because of the archives managed by Guthrie's daughter Nora and access to other resources, artist Kathy Jakobsen had unique primary source to inspire her development of the artwork. Jakobsen integrated an abundance of visual history about Guthrie's life and the nation's economic times during his active travels within her detailed full-color paintings of landscapes across the nation.
The 1999 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards were selected by a national jury chaired by Ginny Moore Kruse, School of Education, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Members of the 1999 jury were Marilyn Hurley Bimstein (Seattle, Washington); Rusty True Browder
(Brookline, Massachusetts); Mary Elting Folsom (Boulder, Colorado); Debby Langerman (Indianapolis, Indiana); Suzanne Martell (Harwich, Massachusetts); Serena Murray (San Jose, California); Cathie Reed (New Market, Maryland); Pat Wiser (Sewanee, Tennessee); Patty Wong
(Oakland, California); 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.
The Jane Addams Children's Book Awards have been given annually since 1953.
Received on Mon 01 Nov 1999 12:01:31 PM CST
