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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:30:44 -0600
On Thursday evening, December 7, the CCBC hosted a four-hour
"Caldecott Award Discussion." Ten individuals - teachers, library media specialists, graduate students and book enthusiasts participated with two CCBC librarians.
For participants to have adequate time to read the books, the discussion lists were compiled long 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 Caldecott Award Committee.
I served as facilitator for the discussion and began by reviewing the background of the Caldecott Award and eligibility matters. CCBC Guidelines for Book Discussion were used: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/discguid.htm After each book had been discussed for an average of 10 minutes, participants voted. The voting procedure each person voting for three books, the votes being 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.
The outcomes of our substantial discussion and subsequent voting are as follows:
Winner:
"So You Want to Be President?" illustrated by David Small and written by Judith St. George. (Philomel, 2000)
Honor Books:
"Do You Know What I'll Do?" illustrated by Javaka Steptoe and written by Charlotte Zolotow (HarperCollins, 2000)
"Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys" illustrated by E. B. Lewis and written by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
"Wings" illustrated and written by Christopher Myers (Scholastic, 2000)
The actual 2001 Caldecott Award winner & 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 Caldecott Award sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association, visit the ALA web site http://www.ala.org/alsc/cmedal.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/caldre.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 Fri 08 Dec 2000 12:30:44 PM CST
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:30:44 -0600
On Thursday evening, December 7, the CCBC hosted a four-hour
"Caldecott Award Discussion." Ten individuals - teachers, library media specialists, graduate students and book enthusiasts participated with two CCBC librarians.
For participants to have adequate time to read the books, the discussion lists were compiled long 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 Caldecott Award Committee.
I served as facilitator for the discussion and began by reviewing the background of the Caldecott Award and eligibility matters. CCBC Guidelines for Book Discussion were used: http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/discguid.htm After each book had been discussed for an average of 10 minutes, participants voted. The voting procedure each person voting for three books, the votes being 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.
The outcomes of our substantial discussion and subsequent voting are as follows:
Winner:
"So You Want to Be President?" illustrated by David Small and written by Judith St. George. (Philomel, 2000)
Honor Books:
"Do You Know What I'll Do?" illustrated by Javaka Steptoe and written by Charlotte Zolotow (HarperCollins, 2000)
"Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys" illustrated by E. B. Lewis and written by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (Simon & Schuster, 2000)
"Wings" illustrated and written by Christopher Myers (Scholastic, 2000)
The actual 2001 Caldecott Award winner & 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 Caldecott Award sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association, visit the ALA web site http://www.ala.org/alsc/cmedal.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/caldre.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 Fri 08 Dec 2000 12:30:44 PM CST
