From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:28:31 -0600

In response to Sari's question about the eligibility of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night for the Printz Award, I went to the Printz Award web site, which says: "To be eligible, a title must have been designated by its publisher as being either a young adult book or one published for the age range that YALSA defines as
"young adult," i.e., 12 through 18. Adult books are not eligible."

This extraordinary book was published as an adult book in the United States.

I'm hoping that the book might be picked up by a young adult house for future publication, perhaps as a paperback if not hardcover. I don't know whether it would then be eligible for the Printz Award (having been previously published in the U.S. I didn't find anything in the Printz criteria that specifically would exclude such a book), but regardless it might help it find its way intot he hands of more young adult readers.

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 Fri 05 Dec 2003 10:28:31 AM CST