From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:19:08 -0600

Thanks for your patience during these first nine days of the 21st Century! Before we began our discussion, we wanted to convey the results of the 2000 Charlotte Zolotow Award process to you. We couldn't do that until we were certain that the winner of the 2000 Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book for young children had been contacted. Unlike Lois Lowry, who was on an Antarctica cruise at the time her Newbery Award for the book "The Giver" was announced, Molly Bang was only en route between Massachusetts and California. Anyway, congratulations to Molly Bang, and kudos to everyone in the CCBC-Net community for keeping your concerns to yourself during this silence. Yes, you're still signed up for CCBC-Net!

Yes, we still are hoping to hear from you regarding your responses to any of the books nominated for the 1999 National Book Award in the Children's Literature category. The titles of these books are repeated below. We particularly encourage anyone who did NOT have a chance to send a message about any of these five books to do so. Quite a few individuals have already written comments for the CCBC-Net community during one or more of our earlier discussions of Monster, The Birchbark House, and/or the December Favorites of 1999 discussions. We'd like to especially encourage people who read one of the five books (below) since the time of each of those discussions - or who did not write a message earlier - to step up at this time, and let us all know why you appreciate them or tell us about the responses of young readers to any of them. If you sent a message earlier, you are most certainly welcome to participate in the discussion during these seven days, but please do so with by adding something you didn't have a


chance to say earlier.

OK, here we go: who has something to say or something new to say about The Birchbark House, Speak, When Zachary Beaver Came to Town, The Trolls, or Monster?

Through JANUARY 16: The 1999 National Book Award "Young People's Literature" Award winner was announced in November. As listed in the
"New York Times" on October 14, 1999, the five 1999 NBA nominees were: 1) "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich (Hyperion); 2) "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson (Farrar); 3) "When Zachary Beaver Came to Town" by Kimberly Willis Holt (Henry Holt); 4) "The Trolls" by Polly Horvath
(Henry Holt); and 5) "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers" (HarperCollins). The winner of the 1999 National Book Award in the Children's Literature category is "When Zachary Beaver Came to Town."

JANUARY 17: Winners of the American Library Association Book Awards will be announced on this date on CCBC-Net, after which the CCBC-Net community will participate in its very popular annual discussion of the winners and honor books. The awards include: Caldecott, Newbery, Coretta Scott King and Michael Printz Awards (see below). They also include the Pura Belpre Award (outstanding Latino literature for children and young adults as written by Latino/a authors and artists during the preceding two years), and Mildred Batchelder Award
(outstanding translated books). Winners of the latter two awards will discussed in March.

JANUARY 19 - 25: The 2000 Caldecott Award & Honor Books
(distinguished illustration for children through age 14)

JANUARY 26 - 31: The 2000 Newbery Award & Honor Books (distinguished writing for children through age 14)

Ginny Moore Kruse (gmkruse at education.wisc.edu) for Kathleen Horning, Megan Schliesman (on leave), Anna Lewis and Christopher Dowling

Cooperative Children's Book Center (www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/) A Library of the School of Education University of Wisconsin - Madison
Received on Mon 10 Jan 2000 04:19:08 PM CST