From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:12:37 -0600

Thank you to all who contributed to the discussion of the 2005 Batchelder books. Your thoughtful comments on the books are part of an important larger discussion on the critical role of translated literature as a means of broadening readers' understanding of the global community of which they are a part, as well as providing them with the opportunity to read wonderful books they otherwise wouldn't have access to.

Today we turn our attention to the 2005 Sibert Award winner and honor books:

Winner: The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights by Russell Freedman. Clarion, 2004.

Honor Books:

Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley. Illustrated by Brian Selznick. Scholastic Press, 2004.

The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery. Photographs by Nic Bishop. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing by James Rumford. Houghton Mifflin, 2004.


Here at the CCBC, we have admired the Scientists in the Field series published by Houghton Mifflin for a long time, and were so pleased to see The Tarantula Scientist as a Sibert honor book.

What are your thoughts on this year's Sibert titles?

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
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