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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:14:25 -0600
We haven't begun to tap the depth and possibility of each of the 2001 Coretta Scott King Award & Honor Books during these past two weeks. Some of them were probably commented upon during the December
"favorites" month, and others were no doubt mentioned during the week immediately following the ALA awards announcements. These fine books are recommended for year-round use, so please don't think of them only during Black History Month, when - indeed - there is a genuine role for some of them.
Thanks to Kathleen Hofschield for alerting us to the fact that there was a recent technical glitch on our end for a few days. Those of you signed up to receive CCBC-Net messages in a digest format didn't get any messages during that time. Now you - or others - might have something to add about any one of the Coretta Scott King books. Please do. There's always a bit of cross-over discussion when we make a transition to another subject.
Between February 16 - 28, we'll discuss the 2001 Michael L. Printz Award winner and honor books for literary excellence in young adult literature. All are novels.
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)
You'll notice by looking at the list above that eligibility for the Printz Award extends to books first published in other nations and then published in the USA during 2000. This is different from eligibility for the Newbery and Caldecott Awards, which are limited to authors/artists who are U.S. citizens or residents.
In a speech given last summer by the chair of the first Printz Award Committee, we learned that the this committee considered a "young adult" to be someone between ages twelve and eighteen.
Possibly in some future year the same book will win both the Printz and the Newbery Awards, because the Newbery Committee, like the Caldecott Committee, considers books for readers through the age of fourteen.
Do you have any immediate thoughts or responses to any of the books brought to visibility through the Printz Award process? If you've had a chance to witness the response(s) of any teenagers who've read any of these novels, please share those comments with us. If any of you have served on either of the Printz Award Committees so far and want to share comments about the scope of the award, the criteria, and other matters you can mention without breaching committee confidentiality, we'll all appreciate this very much.
- Ginny
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
Received on Thu 15 Feb 2001 01:14:25 PM CST
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:14:25 -0600
We haven't begun to tap the depth and possibility of each of the 2001 Coretta Scott King Award & Honor Books during these past two weeks. Some of them were probably commented upon during the December
"favorites" month, and others were no doubt mentioned during the week immediately following the ALA awards announcements. These fine books are recommended for year-round use, so please don't think of them only during Black History Month, when - indeed - there is a genuine role for some of them.
Thanks to Kathleen Hofschield for alerting us to the fact that there was a recent technical glitch on our end for a few days. Those of you signed up to receive CCBC-Net messages in a digest format didn't get any messages during that time. Now you - or others - might have something to add about any one of the Coretta Scott King books. Please do. There's always a bit of cross-over discussion when we make a transition to another subject.
Between February 16 - 28, we'll discuss the 2001 Michael L. Printz Award winner and honor books for literary excellence in young adult literature. All are novels.
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)
You'll notice by looking at the list above that eligibility for the Printz Award extends to books first published in other nations and then published in the USA during 2000. This is different from eligibility for the Newbery and Caldecott Awards, which are limited to authors/artists who are U.S. citizens or residents.
In a speech given last summer by the chair of the first Printz Award Committee, we learned that the this committee considered a "young adult" to be someone between ages twelve and eighteen.
Possibly in some future year the same book will win both the Printz and the Newbery Awards, because the Newbery Committee, like the Caldecott Committee, considers books for readers through the age of fourteen.
Do you have any immediate thoughts or responses to any of the books brought to visibility through the Printz Award process? If you've had a chance to witness the response(s) of any teenagers who've read any of these novels, please share those comments with us. If any of you have served on either of the Printz Award Committees so far and want to share comments about the scope of the award, the criteria, and other matters you can mention without breaching committee confidentiality, we'll all appreciate this very much.
- Ginny
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
Received on Thu 15 Feb 2001 01:14:25 PM CST
