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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:10:04 -0600
Thank you to everyone who contributed to a rich discussion about some of the Coretta Scott King Award books.
It's now time to turn our attention the Batchelder Award, given to the publisher of the oustanding translated book published for children (the book must have been originally published in a foreign langague in a foreign country).
We encourage you to visit the Batchelder web site at
to read more about the history and purpose of this award, which is a superb way to draw attention to the contributions of publishers (and editors) who are committed to providing children in this country with opportunities to read books that children in other countires are reading and to better understand that books are one way to cross the borders that too often divide us.
The 2005 Batchelder Committee recognized three titles:
Winner: Delacorte Press for The Shadows of Ghadames by Jo?lle Stolz. Translated from the French by Catherine Temerson. U.S. edition: Delacorte Press, 2004.
Honor Books:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux for The Crow-Girl written by Bodil Bredsdorff. Translated from the Dutch by Faith Ingwersen. U.S. edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Richard Jackson Books / Atheneum for Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi written by David Chotjewicz. Translated from the German by Doris Orgel. U.S. edition: A Richard Jackson Book / Atheneum, 2004.
From a novel that bridges the gap between childhood and adolescence as it illuminates the lives of women and girls in a 19th century Libyan city to a pro-Nazi German teens' shocking discovery that he is half Jewish just as the Nazi's are rising to power in a gripping, painfully honest young adult nove, to a fokloric children's story about a girl's quest for a place to belong in the wake of her grandmother's death, these three stories each offer readers the means to connect with characters firmly rooted in the specific context and cultures of the stories but whose disappointments and hopes and dreams have universal resonance.
Who has had a chance to read one or more of the 2005 Batchelder titles?
What are your thoughts?
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 Tue 15 Mar 2005 11:10:04 AM CST
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 11:10:04 -0600
Thank you to everyone who contributed to a rich discussion about some of the Coretta Scott King Award books.
It's now time to turn our attention the Batchelder Award, given to the publisher of the oustanding translated book published for children (the book must have been originally published in a foreign langague in a foreign country).
We encourage you to visit the Batchelder web site at
to read more about the history and purpose of this award, which is a superb way to draw attention to the contributions of publishers (and editors) who are committed to providing children in this country with opportunities to read books that children in other countires are reading and to better understand that books are one way to cross the borders that too often divide us.
The 2005 Batchelder Committee recognized three titles:
Winner: Delacorte Press for The Shadows of Ghadames by Jo?lle Stolz. Translated from the French by Catherine Temerson. U.S. edition: Delacorte Press, 2004.
Honor Books:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux for The Crow-Girl written by Bodil Bredsdorff. Translated from the Dutch by Faith Ingwersen. U.S. edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Richard Jackson Books / Atheneum for Daniel Half Human: And the Good Nazi written by David Chotjewicz. Translated from the German by Doris Orgel. U.S. edition: A Richard Jackson Book / Atheneum, 2004.
From a novel that bridges the gap between childhood and adolescence as it illuminates the lives of women and girls in a 19th century Libyan city to a pro-Nazi German teens' shocking discovery that he is half Jewish just as the Nazi's are rising to power in a gripping, painfully honest young adult nove, to a fokloric children's story about a girl's quest for a place to belong in the wake of her grandmother's death, these three stories each offer readers the means to connect with characters firmly rooted in the specific context and cultures of the stories but whose disappointments and hopes and dreams have universal resonance.
Who has had a chance to read one or more of the 2005 Batchelder titles?
What are your thoughts?
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 Tue 15 Mar 2005 11:10:04 AM CST
