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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:46:11 -0600
On Monday evening, December 4, the CCBC hosted a four-hour "Coretta Scott King Awards Discussion" co-sponsored with the Madison Metropolitan School District. Approximately 28 teachers, library media specialists and school staff members from area elementary 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 lists - one for illustration and one for writing - were compiled before all eligible books could be considered. No matter when the lists were compiled, for practical reasons the lists had to be short in order to encourage participation. For those reasons and because of the abbreviated evening discussion time, it's not possible nor reasonable to make comparisons to the work of the actual Coretta Scott King Awards Awards Jury.
CCBC Librarian Kathleen Horning reviewed the background of the Coretta Scott King Awards and discussed eligibility matters.
Everyone saw the fine videotape produced by Scholastic for the 30th anniversary of the CSK Awards. Brief tributes to the importance of the awards by a few of the authors and artists honored by the CSK Award process are preceded by a statement by Virginia Hamilton. From artist George Ford - winner of the first CSK Award - to recent winners Javaka Steptoe and Sharon Draper, the videotape highlights the scope and potential for all young people of the impressive three?cade listing of award & honor books created by African American authors and artists. Check your public library or the professional resources of your school district or campus to see if this brief videotape is available there. Copies were given by Scholastic to everyone at the Coretta Scott King Awards Breakfast during the Am. Lib. Assoc. conference last July and at other occasions since then. It's my impression that the videotape is not available for sale, but perhaps I'm in error about this. But do check around to locate a copy locally. I estimate that at least 2,000 copies have been distributed to people who across North America.
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. Each person voted for three books in each of the two categories: writing and illustration. On each ballot the three votes were ranked 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.
A very close contest emerged in the Writing category. The "Winner" of the CCBC Coretta Scott King Award Discussion for Writing is "145th Street" written by Walter Dean Myers (Delacorte, c2000). One CCBC Discussion "Honor Book" was named, and it was only two votes shy of tying the winner. The CCBC Coretta Scott King Discussion's Honor Book is "Miracle's Boys" written by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam, c2000).
The overwhelming favorite of participants at the CCBC in the Illustration category is the book "Shades of Black" illustrated with photographs by Myles Pinkney and written by Sandra L. Pinkney
(Scholastic, c2000). The two clear choices for Honor Books are: "The Girl Who Spun Gold" illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon and retold by Virginia Hamilton (Blue Sky / Scholastic, c2000) and "Wings" illustrated and written by Christopher Myers (Scholastic, c2000).
The actual 2001 Coretta Scott King Award winners & Honor Books will be announced in Washington, D.C., on Martin Luther King Day, which is Monday, January 15, 2001, during the American Library Association's midwinter conference. For news about the actual winners that week and/or for more information at any time about the Coretta Scott King Awards sponsored by the Coretta Scott King Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of ALA, visit the ALA web site http://www.ala.org/srrt/csking/cskawin.html We'll be discussing the actual winners and honor books in CCBC-Net sometime in February, 2001.
For more information about this CCBC book discussion and a complete list of books discussed, visit the CCBC web site http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/awards/cskre.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 Tue 05 Dec 2000 10:46:11 AM CST
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:46:11 -0600
On Monday evening, December 4, the CCBC hosted a four-hour "Coretta Scott King Awards Discussion" co-sponsored with the Madison Metropolitan School District. Approximately 28 teachers, library media specialists and school staff members from area elementary 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 lists - one for illustration and one for writing - were compiled before all eligible books could be considered. No matter when the lists were compiled, for practical reasons the lists had to be short in order to encourage participation. For those reasons and because of the abbreviated evening discussion time, it's not possible nor reasonable to make comparisons to the work of the actual Coretta Scott King Awards Awards Jury.
CCBC Librarian Kathleen Horning reviewed the background of the Coretta Scott King Awards and discussed eligibility matters.
Everyone saw the fine videotape produced by Scholastic for the 30th anniversary of the CSK Awards. Brief tributes to the importance of the awards by a few of the authors and artists honored by the CSK Award process are preceded by a statement by Virginia Hamilton. From artist George Ford - winner of the first CSK Award - to recent winners Javaka Steptoe and Sharon Draper, the videotape highlights the scope and potential for all young people of the impressive three?cade listing of award & honor books created by African American authors and artists. Check your public library or the professional resources of your school district or campus to see if this brief videotape is available there. Copies were given by Scholastic to everyone at the Coretta Scott King Awards Breakfast during the Am. Lib. Assoc. conference last July and at other occasions since then. It's my impression that the videotape is not available for sale, but perhaps I'm in error about this. But do check around to locate a copy locally. I estimate that at least 2,000 copies have been distributed to people who across North America.
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. Each person voted for three books in each of the two categories: writing and illustration. On each ballot the three votes were ranked 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.
A very close contest emerged in the Writing category. The "Winner" of the CCBC Coretta Scott King Award Discussion for Writing is "145th Street" written by Walter Dean Myers (Delacorte, c2000). One CCBC Discussion "Honor Book" was named, and it was only two votes shy of tying the winner. The CCBC Coretta Scott King Discussion's Honor Book is "Miracle's Boys" written by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam, c2000).
The overwhelming favorite of participants at the CCBC in the Illustration category is the book "Shades of Black" illustrated with photographs by Myles Pinkney and written by Sandra L. Pinkney
(Scholastic, c2000). The two clear choices for Honor Books are: "The Girl Who Spun Gold" illustrated by Leo & Diane Dillon and retold by Virginia Hamilton (Blue Sky / Scholastic, c2000) and "Wings" illustrated and written by Christopher Myers (Scholastic, c2000).
The actual 2001 Coretta Scott King Award winners & Honor Books will be announced in Washington, D.C., on Martin Luther King Day, which is Monday, January 15, 2001, during the American Library Association's midwinter conference. For news about the actual winners that week and/or for more information at any time about the Coretta Scott King Awards sponsored by the Coretta Scott King Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table of ALA, visit the ALA web site http://www.ala.org/srrt/csking/cskawin.html We'll be discussing the actual winners and honor books in CCBC-Net sometime in February, 2001.
For more information about this CCBC book discussion and a complete list of books discussed, visit the CCBC web site http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/awards/cskre.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 Tue 05 Dec 2000 10:46:11 AM CST
