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From: Megan Schliesman <Schliesman>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:38:06 -0600
Let's begin our discussion of the 2006 Bachelder Award winner and honor books:
Winner:
Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, Inc. for An Innocent Soldier by Josef Holub. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. U.S. edition: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, Inc., 2005
Honor Books
Phaidon Press for Nicholas by Ren? Goscinny. Translated from the French by Anthea Bell. Illustrated by
Jean-Jacques Semp?. U.S. edition: Phaidon Press, 2005 Bloomsbury for When I Was a Soldier by Val?rie Zenatti. Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.
U.S. edition: Bloomsbury. 2005
Here's more information on the Batchelder from the American Library Association web site::
The award goes to "an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States. ALSC gives the award to encourage American publishers to seek out superior children's books abroad and to promote communication among the peoples of the world."
For more information, terms and criteria, go to
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/batchelderaward/batchelderaward.htm
Often the Batchedler Award books are among those with which readers--youth and adults--are least familiar. We hope many of you have had the opportunity to read one or more of the three books recognized by the 2006 Batchedler Committee.
I did not have the chance to read the winning title, An Innocent Soldier, until just after the ALA award announcements were made and it's become for me one of those books I feel I "missed" during my reading throughout the year and I'm so happy to have found out about it thank to the Batchelder Committee's work. It's a chilling look at the terror of war, and a powerful look at the bonds of friendship. In it, two young men--boys, really--begin their relationship worlds apart with regard to class and position. They are drawn together by their growing, mutual hatred for war as they march on Moscow (and eventually make a frantic and tragic retreat) as part of Napoleon's army. That's the barest outline of a book that has much happening both on and beneath the surface.
WHo else has read An Innocent Soldier, or one or both of the honor books?
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
ph: 608-262-9503 fax: 608-262-4933
schliesman at education.wisc.edu www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Thu 02 Mar 2006 08:38:06 AM CST
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:38:06 -0600
Let's begin our discussion of the 2006 Bachelder Award winner and honor books:
Winner:
Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, Inc. for An Innocent Soldier by Josef Holub. Translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. U.S. edition: Arthur A. Levine Books / Scholastic, Inc., 2005
Honor Books
Phaidon Press for Nicholas by Ren? Goscinny. Translated from the French by Anthea Bell. Illustrated by
Jean-Jacques Semp?. U.S. edition: Phaidon Press, 2005 Bloomsbury for When I Was a Soldier by Val?rie Zenatti. Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter.
U.S. edition: Bloomsbury. 2005
Here's more information on the Batchelder from the American Library Association web site::
The award goes to "an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States. ALSC gives the award to encourage American publishers to seek out superior children's books abroad and to promote communication among the peoples of the world."
For more information, terms and criteria, go to
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/batchelderaward/batchelderaward.htm
Often the Batchedler Award books are among those with which readers--youth and adults--are least familiar. We hope many of you have had the opportunity to read one or more of the three books recognized by the 2006 Batchedler Committee.
I did not have the chance to read the winning title, An Innocent Soldier, until just after the ALA award announcements were made and it's become for me one of those books I feel I "missed" during my reading throughout the year and I'm so happy to have found out about it thank to the Batchelder Committee's work. It's a chilling look at the terror of war, and a powerful look at the bonds of friendship. In it, two young men--boys, really--begin their relationship worlds apart with regard to class and position. They are drawn together by their growing, mutual hatred for war as they march on Moscow (and eventually make a frantic and tragic retreat) as part of Napoleon's army. That's the barest outline of a book that has much happening both on and beneath the surface.
WHo else has read An Innocent Soldier, or one or both of the honor books?
Megan
Megan Schliesman, Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center School of Education, UW-Madison 600 N. Park St., Room 4290 Madison, WI 53706
ph: 608-262-9503 fax: 608-262-4933
schliesman at education.wisc.edu www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Thu 02 Mar 2006 08:38:06 AM CST
