From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 10:50:44 -0600

Over the next 12 days, we invite you to share your thoughts about National Book Award for YOung People's Literatur winner Godless by Pete Hautman, as well as the finalsts in that cateogry: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti; Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance by Laban Carrick Hill; The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses; and Luna: A Novel by Julie Anne Peters.


This year, Judy Blume was recipient of the National Book Foundation's Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She is the first author of books for youth to receive this distinction. So at the same time we invite you to comment on this year's winner and finalists, we also invite you to discuss Judy Blume's contributions to literature, which includes the role she has taken on as an activist for the first amendment rights of children and teens.

For more information on the National Book Award and National Book Foundation, go to http://www.nationalbook.org/nba.html

Megan

Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706

ph: 608&2?03 fax: 608&2I33 schliesman at education.wisc.edu
Received on Wed 05 Jan 2005 10:50:44 AM CST