From: karen leggett <leggett>
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 09:53:44 -0400

I am pleased to announce the 2004 Washington Post/Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award winner Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

"We are all creative, and each of us has important things to say in our own unique voices that are valuable to others." Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

 

Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, author of more than 100 books about nature and science, has been selected as the winner of the 2004 Nonfiction Award, presented annually by the Washington Post and the Children's Book Guild of Washington, D.C. Patent will receive her award at the annual Children's Book Guild Luncheon in Washington, D.C. on November 13. She will be joined at the podium by authors Eileen and Jerry Spinelli and illustrator Mark Teague.

 

The Nonfiction Award is presented to "an author or illustrator whose total body of work has contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children". As the 28th winner, Patent joins an illustrious group including Steve Jenkins, George Ancona, Jim Murphy, Diane Stanley, Isaac Asimov, Jean Craighead George and Jean Fritz. The winner is selected by a committee of members from the Children's Book Guild, a professional organization of authors, illustrators and children's literature specialists.

 

Patent's books have been winning major awards for more than 25 years, beginning with her Golden Kite Honor Book in 1977, Evolution Goes on Every Day, and including several titles chosen as Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children by the National Science Teachers Association. Her newest titles include The Right Dog for the Job: Ira's Path from Service Dog to Guide Dog (Walker, 2004), Fabulous Fluttering Tropical Butterflies (Walker, 2003), The Lewis and Clark Trail, Then and Now (Dutton, 2002), Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark (Clarion, 2002) and Plants on the Trail with Lewis and Clark (Clarion, 2003). Patent lives with her husband in Missoula, Montana, where she established the Athanor Arts center in a nearby forest. For many years, she taught a class on writing and art in Yellowstone National Park: "Creating with the Elements" helped young students use earth, water, fire and air as inspiration for their writing.

 

Patent's books "answer a child's questions about the natural world and satisfy their curiosity outside the classroom as well as inside," according to Mary Downing Hahn, who chaired this year's Nonfiction Award Committee for the Children's Book Guild. An author and former librarian herself, Hahn says Patent's books "have long filled a need in schools for quality nonfiction to assist children in researching and writing reports."

 

For more information about Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, visit her website at http://www.dorothyhinshawpatent.com.

Luncheon details and reservation forms will be available on later this summer at www.childrensbookguild.org. This site also includes speaking information and web pages for our member authors and illustrators





Karen Leggett

Children's Book Guild

leggett at comcast.net
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