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2004 Batchelder Award
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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:44:05 -0600
Thank you to those who commented on the 2004 Pura Belpre winners and honor books.
This week we turn our attention to the Batchelder Award, given to the publisher of the outstanding translated book of the year.
From the American Library Association Web Site:
"This award honors Mildred L. Batchelder, a former executive director of the Association for Library Service to Children, a believer in the importance of good books for children in translation from all parts of the world... Batchelder spent 30 years with ALA, working as an
ambassador to the world on behalf of children and books, encouraging and promoting the translation of the world's best children's literature. Her life's work was 'to eliminate barriers to understanding between people of different cultures, races, nations, and languages.'
"This award, established in her honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an
American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a
foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in he United States. ALSC gives the award to encourage American publishers to seek out superior children's books abroad and to promote communication among the peoples of the world."
The 2004 Batchelder Award went to Walter Lorraine Books / Houghton Mifflin for Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev. Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin (U.S. edition: 2003).
Chronicle Books received a 2004 Batchelder Honor for The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins by Bea Uusma Schyffert; translated from Swedish by Emi Guner.
(U.S. edition: 2003).
What are your thoughts about this year's Batchedler winner and honor titles?
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 23 Mar 2004 08:44:05 AM CST
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:44:05 -0600
Thank you to those who commented on the 2004 Pura Belpre winners and honor books.
This week we turn our attention to the Batchelder Award, given to the publisher of the outstanding translated book of the year.
From the American Library Association Web Site:
"This award honors Mildred L. Batchelder, a former executive director of the Association for Library Service to Children, a believer in the importance of good books for children in translation from all parts of the world... Batchelder spent 30 years with ALA, working as an
ambassador to the world on behalf of children and books, encouraging and promoting the translation of the world's best children's literature. Her life's work was 'to eliminate barriers to understanding between people of different cultures, races, nations, and languages.'
"This award, established in her honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an
American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a
foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in he United States. ALSC gives the award to encourage American publishers to seek out superior children's books abroad and to promote communication among the peoples of the world."
The 2004 Batchelder Award went to Walter Lorraine Books / Houghton Mifflin for Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev. Translated from the Hebrew by Hillel Halkin (U.S. edition: 2003).
Chronicle Books received a 2004 Batchelder Honor for The Man Who Went to the Far Side of the Moon: The Story of Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins by Bea Uusma Schyffert; translated from Swedish by Emi Guner.
(U.S. edition: 2003).
What are your thoughts about this year's Batchedler winner and honor titles?
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 23 Mar 2004 08:44:05 AM CST
