From: Lisa Von Drasek <lisav>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 10:09:55 -0400

I am please to announce that the 2000 Irma S. Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature goes to Jim LaMarche for The Raft. There were three honor books. Click Clack Moo, Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin, art by Betsy Lewin. Mammalabilia by Doug Florian and Basho and the Fox by Tim Myers, art by Oki S. Han.

The Award honors an outstanding book for young children--a book in which text and illustrations are inseparable, each enhancing and enlarging on the other to produce a singular whole. Over 1000 children participated in the voting this year.


Irma Simonton Black was a writer and editor of children's books and a founding member (in the 1930s) of the Bank Street Writers Laboratory, which included such stars of children's literature as Margaret Wise Brown and Maurice Sendak.

The Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature, which commemorates Irma's achievements, has been presented annually since 1973 by Bank Street College of Education. (The Award was presented in Irma's name only until 1992, when James Black's name was added in recognition of his ardent support of the Award.)

Additional information about the award and past winners can be found at http://streetcat.bnkst.edu/html/isb.html



Lisa Von Drasek, MLIS Children's Librarian Bank Street College of Education 610 West 112th St NY NY 10025

lisav at bnkst.edu
Received on Wed 02 May 2001 09:09:55 AM CDT