From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 17:19:28 -0600

Here are two lists of award-winning books. The lists contain the books we'll discuss within the CCBC-Net community during February. All were published in the U.S.A. during the year 2000.

Between now and February 15, we'll discuss the Coretta Scott King Award Award winners and honor books for outstanding writing and illustration by African Americans. For general information about each book and about the Coretta Scott King Awards, visit http://www.ala.org/srrt/csking/index.html

1 - Miracle's Boys, a novel written by Jacqueline Woodson (Putnam) CSK Winner for Writing 2 - Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters written by Andrea Davis Pinkney & illustrated by Stephen Alcorn (Gulliver Books / Harcourt) CSK Honor Book for Writing 3 - Uptown, a picture book illustrated and written by Bryan Collier
(Henry Holt) Winner for Illustration 4 - Freedom River, a picture book story illustrated by Bryan Collier
& written by Doreen Rappaport (Jump at the Sun / Hyperion) Honor Book for Illustration 5 - Only Passing Through: The Story of Sojourner Truth illustrated by R. Gregory Christie & written by Anne Rockwell (Knopf) Honor Book for Illustration 6 - Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys, a picture book story illustrated by E.B. Lewis & written by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard
(Simon & Schuster) Honor Book for Illustration

We hope that those of you who've had a chance to read any of the CSK books yourselves or with children or young readers will step forward with your comments about any of them now.
         Between February 16 - 28, we'll discuss the Michael L. Printz Award winner and honor books for literary excellence in young adult literature. All are novels. Perhaps you'll be able to locate one or more of them between now and the middle of February, if you haven't already read them. For general information about each book and about the Michael L. Printz Award, visit http://www.ala.org/yalsa/printz/index.html
         1 - Kit's Wilderness by David Almond. (U.S. edition: Delacorte Press) Winner 2 - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging: Confessions of Georgia Nicolson by Louise Rennison. (U.S. edition: HarperCollins) 3 - The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci (Harcourt) 4 - Many Stones by Carolyn Coman (Front Street) 5 - Stuck in Neutral by Terry Trueman (HarperCollins)


Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu Cooperative Children's Book Center www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/ A Library of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin Madison
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