From: Esme Raji Codell <esme>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 22:22:08 -0600

Hello, friends! The Chapman Awards for Shared Reading were announced in January, but in the spirit of the Oscars and envelope opening it occurred to me that I should share them here as well! And the winners are:

Picture Books The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds (Candlewick) In English, of Course by Josephine Nobisso, illustrated by Dasha Ziborova
(Gingerbread House) Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver, illustrated by Lynne Rowe Reed
(Holiday House) Mrs. Chicken and the Hungry Crocodile by Won-Ldy Paye and Margaret H. Lippert (Holt) The Hard-Times Jar by Ethel Footman Smothers, illustrated by John Holyfield
(Farrar Straus Giroux)

Fiction The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick) City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (Random House)

Non-Fiction Mathematickles! by Betsy Franco, illustrated by Steven Salerno (Simon and Schuster) Abe Lincoln: The Boy Who Loved Books by Kay Winters, illustrated by Nancy Carpenter (Simon and Schuster) Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Yuyi Morales (Harcourt) We Are Americans by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler (Scholastic) The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordecai Gerstein (Roaring Brook)

Special Commendations The reissue of The Little Bookroom by Eleanor Farjeon, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone (New York Review of Books Children's Collection) Zoo Ology by Joelle Jolivet (Roaring Brook)

Details about the Chapman and the winning books may be found at http://www.planetesme.com/chapman.html . The shortlist for the award is available upon request. Happy reading...and reading aloud...to everyone!

Sincerely, Esme Raji Codell Site Director

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