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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 11:07:17 -0600
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. All interested individuals are welcome at this annual awards event and reception honoring the authors & artists.
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.
If you hope to attend this fine event, it will be helpful if you will indicate your plans by phoning 212h2?30) or writing an e-mail message to the Jane Addams Peace Association Director Dilys Purdy
(japa at igc.apc.org).
The books and book creators to be honored on Friday are the 1999 winner in the Longer Book category: the novel "Bat 6" written by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Scholastic Press) and the 1999 Picture Book winner: "Painted Words / Spoken Memories: Marianthe's Story" written and illustrated by Aliki (Greenwillow Books).
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 Wed 03 Nov 1999 11:07:17 AM CST
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 11:07:17 -0600
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. All interested individuals are welcome at this annual awards event and reception honoring the authors & artists.
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.
If you hope to attend this fine event, it will be helpful if you will indicate your plans by phoning 212h2?30) or writing an e-mail message to the Jane Addams Peace Association Director Dilys Purdy
(japa at igc.apc.org).
The books and book creators to be honored on Friday are the 1999 winner in the Longer Book category: the novel "Bat 6" written by Virginia Euwer Wolff (Scholastic Press) and the 1999 Picture Book winner: "Painted Words / Spoken Memories: Marianthe's Story" written and illustrated by Aliki (Greenwillow Books).
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 Wed 03 Nov 1999 11:07:17 AM CST
