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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 15:00:50 -0600
On Thursday evening, November 30, the CCBC hosted a four-hour "Michael L. Printz Award Discussion" co-sponsored with the Madison Metropolitan School District. More than 30 teachers, library media specialists and school staff members from area high schools and middle schools participated, along with CCBC staff.
For this discussion to occur in partnership with the MMSD and for these and other participants to have adequate time to read the books, the discussion list was compiled before all eligible books could be considered. No matter when the list was compiled, it had to be a short one for practical reasons. For those reasons and because of the abbreviated evening discussion time, it's not possible to make comparisons to the work of the actual Printz Award Committee. However, the participants who came to the CCBC to learn more about the Printz Award and to discuss a few of the books eligible for the upcoming Printz Award were well prepared due to their advance reading of and thinking about the books. They were passionate about their responses to their reading and articulate during the discussion.
CCBC Librarian Megan Schliesman reviewed the background of the Printz Award and discussed eligibility matters. She referred everyone to audiotapes made during a program at the June 2000 ALA conference. The speakers were representatives of the first Printz Committee and the authors whose books were formally acknowledged during the first Printz process. These audiotapes can be purchased from ALA or Wisconsin residents may borrow them from the Wis. Reference & Loan Library.
The large group was divided into two smaller groups. CCBC Guidelines for Book Discussion were used in each group: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/discguid.htm After each book had been discussed for an average of 10 minutes a book in the smaller groups, the entire group came together to share comments with each other and to vote. The voting procedure involved the hand-writing of secret ballots without chads. Each person voted for three books, ranking the three in priority order. First place votes counted for four points each, second place votes each received three points, and third place votes were valued at two points apiece.
The hands-down "winner" CCBC Printz Award Discussion with an overwhelming number of first place votes is "Kit's Wilderness" by David Almond (U.S.edition: Delacorte, c2000). One other book received enough points to warrant naming it an Honor Book: "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli (Alfred A. Knopf, c2000).
The actual 2001 Michael L. Printz Award & Honor Books will be announced in Washington, D.C., on Monday, January 15, 2001, during the ALA midwinter conference. For news about the actual winners that week and/or for more information at any time about the Michael L. Printz Award sponsored by the American Library Association / Young Adult Library Services Association and the ALA journal "Booklist"), visit the ALA web site: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz/index.html For more information about this CCBC book discussion, visit the CCBC web site: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/awards/printzre.htm
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Director, Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Sat 02 Dec 2000 03:00:50 PM CST
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 15:00:50 -0600
On Thursday evening, November 30, the CCBC hosted a four-hour "Michael L. Printz Award Discussion" co-sponsored with the Madison Metropolitan School District. More than 30 teachers, library media specialists and school staff members from area high schools and middle schools participated, along with CCBC staff.
For this discussion to occur in partnership with the MMSD and for these and other participants to have adequate time to read the books, the discussion list was compiled before all eligible books could be considered. No matter when the list was compiled, it had to be a short one for practical reasons. For those reasons and because of the abbreviated evening discussion time, it's not possible to make comparisons to the work of the actual Printz Award Committee. However, the participants who came to the CCBC to learn more about the Printz Award and to discuss a few of the books eligible for the upcoming Printz Award were well prepared due to their advance reading of and thinking about the books. They were passionate about their responses to their reading and articulate during the discussion.
CCBC Librarian Megan Schliesman reviewed the background of the Printz Award and discussed eligibility matters. She referred everyone to audiotapes made during a program at the June 2000 ALA conference. The speakers were representatives of the first Printz Committee and the authors whose books were formally acknowledged during the first Printz process. These audiotapes can be purchased from ALA or Wisconsin residents may borrow them from the Wis. Reference & Loan Library.
The large group was divided into two smaller groups. CCBC Guidelines for Book Discussion were used in each group: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/discguid.htm After each book had been discussed for an average of 10 minutes a book in the smaller groups, the entire group came together to share comments with each other and to vote. The voting procedure involved the hand-writing of secret ballots without chads. Each person voted for three books, ranking the three in priority order. First place votes counted for four points each, second place votes each received three points, and third place votes were valued at two points apiece.
The hands-down "winner" CCBC Printz Award Discussion with an overwhelming number of first place votes is "Kit's Wilderness" by David Almond (U.S.edition: Delacorte, c2000). One other book received enough points to warrant naming it an Honor Book: "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli (Alfred A. Knopf, c2000).
The actual 2001 Michael L. Printz Award & Honor Books will be announced in Washington, D.C., on Monday, January 15, 2001, during the ALA midwinter conference. For news about the actual winners that week and/or for more information at any time about the Michael L. Printz Award sponsored by the American Library Association / Young Adult Library Services Association and the ALA journal "Booklist"), visit the ALA web site: http://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz/index.html For more information about this CCBC book discussion, visit the CCBC web site: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/awards/printzre.htm
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at ccbc.education.wisc.edu Director, Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
Received on Sat 02 Dec 2000 03:00:50 PM CST
