From: Griffith, Susan C <griff2sc>
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 09:54:58 -0400

INVITATION TO THE JANE ADDAMS CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARDS - 2004
  You are invited to attend the presentations of the 51st Jane Addams Children's Book Awards on Friday, October 22, at 1:30 PM in New York City at 777 United Nations Plaza (2nd Floor) on the corner of 44th St. and 1st Ave. This annual award event offers a memorable afternoon of presentations, responses by all honorees or their representatives, and an opportunity to meet and talk with each honored guest. A reception and book signing will follow the presentations, with the honored books available for purchase, courtesy of Bank Street Bookstore.
  The winner in the Picture Book category is Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, written by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Yuyi Morales, and published by Harcourt Children's Books. Chavez's life is traced from his comfortable Arizona childhood through drought, loss, and backbreaking field labor to his adult leadership in organizing migrant workers. The winner in the category of Books for Older Children is Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope. South African apartheid and its aftermath are experienced over seven decades by young, courageous protagonists whose portrayals cross races, classes, and genders. Written by once-exiled South African Beverley Naidoo, the book is published by HarperCollins Children's Books.
  In the Picture Book category, both Honor Books are portraits of determined and resourceful women. Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings was inspired by the accomplishments of Alta Weiss, a girl in early 20th century Ohio who pitched her way onto an all-male baseball team. Told by Deborah Hopkinson and accompanied by the pictures of Terry Widener, the book is published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, An Anne Schwartz Book. In Luba: The Angel of Bergen?lsen, author Michelle McCann recounts the story of danger, suffering and courage told to her by Luba Tryszynska-Frederick, who secretly saved the lives of 54 orphaned, imprisoned children. Oil paintings by Ann Marshall illustrate this Tricycle Press book.
  In the category of Honor Books for Older Children, two books were named: Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe and Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 188024 by Deborah Hopkinson. Crowe rehearses in text and photographs the grisly and shameful 1955 lynching of Emmett Till. This almost-forgotten episode in U.S. history was published by Phyllis Fogelman Books/Penguin Books for Young Readers. Published by Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc., Shutting Out the Sky depicts the lives of five people who immigrated as children to the U.S. around 1900, following them with archival photos and narrative to their eventual hard-won status as naturalized citizens.
  The Jane Addams Awards annually acknowledge books published during the previous year which, as well as meeting conventional standards for excellence, most effectively address themes or topics that promote peace, justice, community, and/or equality of the sexes and all races. Seals for Winners and Honor Books honored in all years can be purchased in large and small quantities from the Jane Addams Peace Association. Additional information and a complete list of books honored since 1953 are available on the web at www.janeaddamspeace.org
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  Members of the 2004 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Committee are Donna Barkman, 2004 Chair (Ossining, New York), Marilyn Hurley Bimstein
(Seattle, Washington), Eliza T. Dresang (Tallahassee, Florida), Susan C. Griffith (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan) Ginny Moore Kruse, (Madison, Wisconsin), Jo Montie (Minneapolis, Minnesota), Cathie Reed (New Market, Maryland), Suzanne Martell (Harwich, Massachusetts), Pat Wiser (Sewanee, Tennessee). Regional reading and discussion groups participated with many of the committee members throughout the jury's evaluation and selection process.
  In addition to the Jane Addams Children's Book Awards and its many other educational projects, the Jane Addams Peace Association houses the UN office of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. JAPA owns the Jane Addams House in Philadelphia where the U.S. section of WILPF is located. For information about JAPA, visit www.janeaddamspeace.org. For information about WILPF during its 89th year, visit www.wilpf.int.ch/
  Plan now to join everyone who will offer their congratulations on October 22nd to the authors, artists, editors and publishers of the fine books being honored this year. Many within the children's book community are already planning to be there, and so are local members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Ann Chalmers Pendell, national president of the Jane Addams Peace Association will be there, along with members of the JAPA Board and Award Committee Members Ginny Moore Kruse, and Susan Griffith who will participate in the presentations. Everyone is welcome to come to this event, so tell others, and forward this message to those who will want to know of this opportunity.
  For more information about the Award event, contact JAPA Executive Director Linda B. Belle, 777 United Nations Plaza, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017521; phone 212h2?30; or email your question to japa at igc.org .
 
 
 
  Donna Barkman, 1 Reservoir Road, Ossining New York 10562 914v2f35; barkman at bestweb.net
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