From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 08:41:01 -0600

Thanks, Frances and Marc, for clarifying the question about audience, popularity, quality, etc.

And, Marc, thanks for mentioning the 1/15 Booklist article and for letting us know some of the key points you made in it, especially since many of the people on CCBC-Net don't have easy access to Booklist. I hope this will be one of the things Booklist will put on their webpage in the near future.

For those of you who do have access to Booklist, the latest issue
(2/15) has an interview conducted by Hazel Rochman with Printz Award winner, Walter Dean Myers, in which they talk at length about
"Monster."

Note: Your local public library may have Booklist, even if it's not out on their periodical racks. Many libraries subscribe to it as part of their professional collection so it wouldn't hurt to ask for it if you would like to read Marc Aronson's article about the Printz Award from 1/-1/15/00 or Hazel Rochman's interview with Walter Dean Myers on 2/15/00.


Kathleen T. Horning (horning at education.wisc.edu) Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706 608&3930 FAX: 608&2I33

I'm sure the members of the committee can answer this for themselves, but I also discussed it in some detail in an article in the 1/15 issue of Booklist. The Printz is a prize for literary distinction. It is not a prize for popularity, morality, role models, teen appeal etc. As I said in the piece, a book for teenagers may be distinguished even if it takes a distinguished teenager to read it.

Marc Aronson

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