From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 14:09:58 -0600

This month: Images of Families in Books for Children and Young Adults. Nuclear. Extended. Single-parent. Two-parent. Biracial. Multiracial. Lesbian & Gay. All of these terms and more lend themselves to a collective understanding the word "family" today. How does literature for children and young adults reflect this diversity? What books provide especially effective, and affecting, portrayals of family life?

December 2002: Favorites of the Year. Each December we invite members of the CCBC-Net community to share their favorite titles published for children and young adults in 2002. From picture books to poetry, novels to non-fiction, it's time to talk about the books you've most appreciated this year.

January 2003: Award Winners January 1& ? National Book Award winner and nominees "Feed" by M.T. Anderson; "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer; "19 Varieties of Gazelle" by Naomi Shihab Nye; "This Land Was Made for You and Me" buy Elizabeth Partridge; and "Hush" by Jacqueline Woodson.

Jan 271 ? ALA Awards (Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, Coretta Scott King, Batchelder)



Kathleen T. Horning, Acting Director Cooperative Children's Book Center University of Wisconsin-School of Education 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 North Park St. Madison, WI 53706

horning at education.wisc.edu Voice: 608&3721 Fax: 608&2I33 www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
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