From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 09:49:04 -0600

Thank you to all for the discussion of the Michael L. Printz Award winner and honor books. I realize there are questions posed that have gone unanswered, but it is time for us to move the month's discussion on to the 2002 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award

Winner: Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 184550 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Houghton Mifflin)

Honor Books:

Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps by Andrea Warren
(HarpeCollins)

Vincent van Gogh by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan (Delacorte)

Brooklyn Bridge by Lynn Curlee (Atheneum)

For an explanation of the terms and criteria of the Sibert Award, visit the Sibert Award web site at www.ala.org/alsc/sibert.html

What are your thoughts about this year's Sibert Award selections? Three of the books are aimed at a middle school and higher audience, while The Brooklyn Bridge is accessible for grades 3 or 4 and up. Who has had experience using these books with children and young adults?

Megan

Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education UW-Madison 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 12 Mar 2002 09:49:04 AM CST