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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:25:29 -0600
In yesterday's "News Notes" written immediately after I returned from a series of intense meetings during the American Library Association conference, I wrote a couple of things confusing to some. Let's clarify.
I intended to write that Christopher Paul Curtis was announced at the press conference as being the first African American writer to win the Newbery Award since Mildred Taylor won the 1977 Award for "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" (c1976). I did not intend to imply that Curtis was the only African American writer to win the Newbery Award. Virginia Hamilton's "M.C. Higgins the Great" (c1974) was the 1975 Newbery winner. I certainly didn't intend to imply that other African American writers have not received Newbery Honor Book status during the past decades. Let's not get sidetracked right now as to how or why there have been no other African American writers honored with the actual Newbery Award. As important a question as that is, and it is a most important one, it's a speculative one. Each Newbery committee does its best to arrive at the committee's choose of the most distinguished writing midst all the eligible books each year. The more astonishing fact announced on Monday was that Curtis is the first writer to win both the Newbery and the Coretta Scott King Author Award in the same year for the same book.
Sorry for the alphabet soup. I know better. Here's the information you requested. Various American Library Association divisions, roundtables and affiliates sponsor these fine annual book awards. They are the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC); the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA); the Social
Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT); and REFORMA (National Association to Promote Library Services to the Spanish Speaking). More information about each of these and other ALA divisions, roundtables and affiliates can be found on the ALA website (http://www.ala.org/) - and you'll find more information about most of the recently announced awards there today, too. More info to come on that website as the week progresses, I'm sure.
Meanwhile, let's talk about the picture books!
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center A Library of the School of Education, UW-Madison
Received on Wed 19 Jan 2000 12:25:29 PM CST
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 12:25:29 -0600
In yesterday's "News Notes" written immediately after I returned from a series of intense meetings during the American Library Association conference, I wrote a couple of things confusing to some. Let's clarify.
I intended to write that Christopher Paul Curtis was announced at the press conference as being the first African American writer to win the Newbery Award since Mildred Taylor won the 1977 Award for "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" (c1976). I did not intend to imply that Curtis was the only African American writer to win the Newbery Award. Virginia Hamilton's "M.C. Higgins the Great" (c1974) was the 1975 Newbery winner. I certainly didn't intend to imply that other African American writers have not received Newbery Honor Book status during the past decades. Let's not get sidetracked right now as to how or why there have been no other African American writers honored with the actual Newbery Award. As important a question as that is, and it is a most important one, it's a speculative one. Each Newbery committee does its best to arrive at the committee's choose of the most distinguished writing midst all the eligible books each year. The more astonishing fact announced on Monday was that Curtis is the first writer to win both the Newbery and the Coretta Scott King Author Award in the same year for the same book.
Sorry for the alphabet soup. I know better. Here's the information you requested. Various American Library Association divisions, roundtables and affiliates sponsor these fine annual book awards. They are the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC); the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA); the Social
Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT); and REFORMA (National Association to Promote Library Services to the Spanish Speaking). More information about each of these and other ALA divisions, roundtables and affiliates can be found on the ALA website (http://www.ala.org/) - and you'll find more information about most of the recently announced awards there today, too. More info to come on that website as the week progresses, I'm sure.
Meanwhile, let's talk about the picture books!
Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center A Library of the School of Education, UW-Madison
Received on Wed 19 Jan 2000 12:25:29 PM CST
