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Molly Bang and the Charlotte Zolotow Award
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From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 11:44:34 -0500
Well, it looks like we've gotten this month's discussion started off with a bang!
Thanks to all of you who mentioned Molly Bang's "Picture This." I hope those of you who aren't familiar with it already will have a chance to take a look at it sometime soon. It's really worth seeking out.
We discussed Molly Bang's book "When Sophie Gets Angry ? Really, Really Angry..." briefly earlier this spring after the Caldecott Awards were announced. Perhaps some of you have had a chance to see it or read it with children since that time, and you want to take advantage of this second chance to chime it. Please feel free to do so.
As I recall from our discussion last February, someone pointed out how very different each Molly Bang book is from her previous works and, yet, as a group they are all so distinctly Molly Bang. In other words, you recognize a new book by her right away, even though it's likely to be a departure from her other work. As a picture book creator, she's always trying new things.
We talked last February about "When Sophie Gets Angry" as a Caldecott Honor book, speaking in particular about the illustrations. But this book was also awarded the 2000 Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book for children from birth through age seven.
The angle we'd like to take in this month's discussion is to look at the writing in picture books, a feature that's often overlooked or dismissed because there are so few words. And yet the words in a picture book are so important when one is reading aloud to small children. That's the reason we established the Charlotte Zolotow Award three years ago, in order to give the authors of picture books recognition for heir work and to call outstanding writing to the attention of those who read aloud to young children.
In 2000, in addition to "When Sophie Gets Angry-- Really, Really Angry" the Zolotow commitee also acknowledged two honor books: "Bark, George" by Jules Feiffer and
"Three Cheers for Catherine the Great" by Cari Best.
Further information about these books and the award itself can be found at: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/cz00.htm
Received on Thu 04 May 2000 11:44:34 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 11:44:34 -0500
Well, it looks like we've gotten this month's discussion started off with a bang!
Thanks to all of you who mentioned Molly Bang's "Picture This." I hope those of you who aren't familiar with it already will have a chance to take a look at it sometime soon. It's really worth seeking out.
We discussed Molly Bang's book "When Sophie Gets Angry ? Really, Really Angry..." briefly earlier this spring after the Caldecott Awards were announced. Perhaps some of you have had a chance to see it or read it with children since that time, and you want to take advantage of this second chance to chime it. Please feel free to do so.
As I recall from our discussion last February, someone pointed out how very different each Molly Bang book is from her previous works and, yet, as a group they are all so distinctly Molly Bang. In other words, you recognize a new book by her right away, even though it's likely to be a departure from her other work. As a picture book creator, she's always trying new things.
We talked last February about "When Sophie Gets Angry" as a Caldecott Honor book, speaking in particular about the illustrations. But this book was also awarded the 2000 Charlotte Zolotow Award for outstanding writing in a picture book for children from birth through age seven.
The angle we'd like to take in this month's discussion is to look at the writing in picture books, a feature that's often overlooked or dismissed because there are so few words. And yet the words in a picture book are so important when one is reading aloud to small children. That's the reason we established the Charlotte Zolotow Award three years ago, in order to give the authors of picture books recognition for heir work and to call outstanding writing to the attention of those who read aloud to young children.
In 2000, in addition to "When Sophie Gets Angry-- Really, Really Angry" the Zolotow commitee also acknowledged two honor books: "Bark, George" by Jules Feiffer and
"Three Cheers for Catherine the Great" by Cari Best.
Further information about these books and the award itself can be found at: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/cz00.htm
Received on Thu 04 May 2000 11:44:34 AM CDT
