From: Tom Hurlburt <tsh2257>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:26:57 -0600

While not presented with the bevy of other rewards given out at the ALA's Mid-Winter meetings, there is a fairly new but prestigious award given annually to the author of the best picture book text published in the U.S. This is the Charlotte Zolotow Award that is administered by the CCBC in Madison, WI who hosts this list-serv. The following link provides more information

http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/books/zolotow.asp

Tom Hurlburt, Children's Librarian/Associate Director Rhinelander District Library, Wisconsin


>From: "Elliott BatTzedek" <ebattzedek at cliontheweb.org>
>To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu>
>Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Show Way
>Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:09:55 -0500
>
>I was delighted that the Newbery team gave notice to excellence in writing
>in a picture book format. Show Way is just astoundingly good writing (and
>what a wonderful year for Jacqueline Woodson!). One of the drawbacks of
>the giving awards only the illustration in picture books is that the hard
>work of writing these texts goes un-awarded. I think it is high time a
>major award was given to the authors who create these short but rich and
>deep and broad and beautiful and emotionally rich texts.
>
>Elliott batTzedek
>Children's Literacy Initiative
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Pamela Turner [mailto:pstrst at pacbell.net]
>Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 5:06 PM
>To: ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu
>Subject: [CCBC-Net] Show Way
>
>
>On the topic of award-winners, I am wondering what people think of "Show
>Way" ending up as a Newbery Honor. I found it very inventive (though the
>variety of styles in the artwork was a bit much) but the text is so short I
>was astounded that it ended up in the Newbery category. I thought it would
>be seriously considered for the Caldecott.
>
>Pam Turner
>
>
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