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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:14:12 -0600
We invite members of the CCBC-Net community to continue the discussion begun this week about resources on war for children.
At the same time, we invite anyone who wants to comment on the Batchelder Award, our scheduled discussion topic, to do so.
The winner of the 2003 Batchelder Award was The Chicken House/Scholastic for TheThief Lord, by Cornelia Funke and translated by Oliver Latsch.
The honor citation went to David E. Godine,for Henrietta and
the Golden Eggs by Hanna Johansen,illustrated by K?thi
Bhend, and translated by John Barrett.
It seems an appropriate time to remember that the Bathelder Award was established to honor Mildred L. Batchelder, whose life work was "to eliminate barriers to understanding between people of different cultures, races, nations, and languages"
(from description of the Batchelder Award).
I also think of what what Naomi Shihab Nye wrote about in her introduction to her very first poetry anthology for children, "This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from arond the World": "During the Gulf War of 1991, when the language of headline news seemed determined to push human experience into the 'sanitized' distance, I found myself searching for poems by Iraqi poets to carry into the classrooms. Evne if the poems had been written decades earlier, they helped to give a sense of human struggle and real people living behind those headlines."
International for children and young adults, including books cited by the Batchelder Award committee over the years, are certainly one of the ways we as librarians and teachers can help foster connections and sense of global awareness.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, Wi 53706 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 18 Mar 2003 10:14:12 AM CST
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:14:12 -0600
We invite members of the CCBC-Net community to continue the discussion begun this week about resources on war for children.
At the same time, we invite anyone who wants to comment on the Batchelder Award, our scheduled discussion topic, to do so.
The winner of the 2003 Batchelder Award was The Chicken House/Scholastic for TheThief Lord, by Cornelia Funke and translated by Oliver Latsch.
The honor citation went to David E. Godine,for Henrietta and
the Golden Eggs by Hanna Johansen,illustrated by K?thi
Bhend, and translated by John Barrett.
It seems an appropriate time to remember that the Bathelder Award was established to honor Mildred L. Batchelder, whose life work was "to eliminate barriers to understanding between people of different cultures, races, nations, and languages"
(from description of the Batchelder Award).
I also think of what what Naomi Shihab Nye wrote about in her introduction to her very first poetry anthology for children, "This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems from arond the World": "During the Gulf War of 1991, when the language of headline news seemed determined to push human experience into the 'sanitized' distance, I found myself searching for poems by Iraqi poets to carry into the classrooms. Evne if the poems had been written decades earlier, they helped to give a sense of human struggle and real people living behind those headlines."
International for children and young adults, including books cited by the Batchelder Award committee over the years, are certainly one of the ways we as librarians and teachers can help foster connections and sense of global awareness.
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, Wi 53706 608&2?03 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Tue 18 Mar 2003 10:14:12 AM CST
