From: gmkruse at education.wisc.edu <gmkruse>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:18:49 -0500

Here are the results of your votes!


There was a very clear consensus in the Picture Book/Shorter Book category. The Composition was a clear favorite, as was The Yellow Star. None of the other shorter books emerged as favorites.


We had a lengthy discussion about the winner and honor books in the Longer Book category. Why? Because all four books ultimately cited were so very close in the balloting. We had to take another very careful look at each of your written comments and again at each of these four "finalists." We had a lengthy deliberation in order to make what finally became an obvious decision. We hope you each will be very pleased with the final results, just as we are.


Each of you will see some of your preferences reflected in the outcomes, although perhaps not in the same priority order. But each of the books cited will now have heightened national and international visibility for years to come because of your choices. We hope many people here and in other nations will find ways to bring each of these books to the attention of the children or teenagers on whom they might have an impact.


You might be interested to know that one of the strongest Madison preferences (Forgotten Fire) was not a "finalist." I'm so proud of these incredible WILPFers from the Madison area who were able last evening to set aside their personal preferences and move forward in a careful and deliberate way to fulfill the terms of the awards as well as the national committee's wishes.


I'll send you an e-mail copy of the press release as soon as I get it written this weekend. The information below is CONFIDENTIAL until I have reached each publisher, or at least until Sept. 6, whichever comes first. The press release will be issued by the Jane Addams Peace Association office on Sept. 6, the anniversary of Jane Addams's birth.



Website information about the awards will be updated within the next few days by my CCBC colleague Kathleen Horning.


I'll send you details about the Oct. 19th award presentation in New York City as soon as I have them, if you or anyone else you know can be there. If you or someone in one of your reading groups will be there, please let me know as soon as possible so each of you can have a role in the presentation.


With great appreciation for your thoughtful reading and thinking Peace, Ginny



2001 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards and Honor Books:


LONGER BOOKS:


WINNER: Esperanza Rising written by Pam Munoz Ryan (Scholastic Press)
    Please always use a diacritical marking when you write "Munoz." I can't do that on my e-mail.


HONOR BOOKS:


1. The Color of My Words written by Lynn Joseph (A Joanna Cotler Book
/ HarperCollins Children's Books)


2. Darkness over Denmark: The Danish Resistance and the Rescue of the Jews written by Ellen Levine (Holiday House)


3. Walking to the Bus-Rider Blues written by Harriette Gillem Robinet
(A Jean Karl Book / Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division)


PICTURE BOOKS:


WINNER: The Composition written by Antonio Skarmeta and illustrated by Alfonso Ruano (Groundwood Books) diacritical needed in
"Skarmeta"


HONOR BOOK:


The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark written by Carmen Agra Deedy and illustrated by Henri Sorensen (Peachtree Publishers, Ltd.) diacritical needed in "Sorensen"


- Ginny


Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse at education.wisc.edu


cc: Isha Dyfan, Executive Director of the Jane Addams Peace Association
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