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From: Donna Barkman <barkman>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:50:31 -0400
A final reminder about the Jane Addams Children's Book Award ceremony on October 20th, plus a suggestion that you make a children's literature weekend of it all by attending the Yale Child Study Center and Anna Freud Centre children's literature conference on Saturday, October 21st, info included below. We hope to see you there!
INVITATION TO THE JANE ADDAMS CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARDS - 2006
You are invited to attend the presentations of the 53rd Jane Addams Children's Book Awards on Friday, October 20, at 2:30 PM in New York City at 777 United Nations Plaza (2nd Floor) on the corner of 44th St. and 1st Ave. These awards honor books of excellence, published during the previous year, having themes of peace and social justice, conflict resolution, community cooperation, and the equality of genders and all races. An annual event, the ceremony offers a memorable afternoon of presentations, responses by honorees or their representatives, and an opportunity to meet and talk with each honored guest. This year, we are expecting honorees Karen Blumenthal, Benny Andrews, Pamela Porter, and Marlene Carvell to be present to accept their awards. A reception and book signing will follow the presentations, with the honored books available for purchase.
Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights, written by the late Jim Haskins, illustrated by Benny Andrews, and published by Candlewick Press, is the winner in the Books for Younger Children category. Mr. Law, a mail carrier by trade and a courageous activist by conviction, catalyzed and led his community in the peaceful integration of all public facilities in Savannah, Georgia in the 1940s and well beyond. Haskins traces Law's impressive progress in succinct chapters, each accompanied by expressive oil-and-collage illustrations by Andrews.
The winner in the Books for Older Children category is Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America, by Karen Blumenthal and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Replete with photos, comic strips, and progress "score cards," the book provides exciting moment-by-moment political coverage of the 1972 bill that ensures equal education for girls. The book is splendidly executed in design and documentation.
Poems to Dream Together=Poemas Para So?ar Juntos, written by Francisco X. Alarc?n, illustrated by Paula Barrag?n and published by Lee & Low Books, Inc., has been named an honor book in the Books for Younger Children category. In nineteen short and heartfelt poems in Spanish and English, Alarc?n inspires us to dream alone and to dream and work together, as families and communities, in order to make our hopes for a better world come true. The stylized paintings of Paula Barrag?n colorfully extend and interpret the theme.
Two books have won honors in the Books for Older Children category, each written as a prose poem: The Crazy Man, by Pamela Porter, published by Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, and Sweetgrass Basket, by Marlene Carvell, published by Dutton Children's Books/a Division of Penguin Young Readers Group.
The Crazy Man intertwines the emotional lives of an injured girl, a dazed mother, a runaway father, and a mental patient. Spare free-verse narration of twelve-year-old Emaline tells a story in which everyone is challenged to change in this 1960's Saskatchewan community. Porter touchingly captures both the wide, lonely prairies and the closed minds central to the tension in this book.
Sweetgrass Basket is told in the alternating voices of two young Mohawk sisters. Each describes leaving her beloved home to be schooled in the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School, founded in 1879. Devoted to each other and their father, but opposite in personality and outlook, the sisters experience their virtual imprisonment differently: Mattie, rashly defiant, and Sarah, fearfully obedient until it's too late to act.
Members of the 2006 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Committee are Donna Barkman, Chair (Ossining, New York), Dionne Delancy (Brooklyn, New York), Eliza T. Dresang (Tallahassee, Florida), Susan C. Griffith (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan), Margaret Jensen (Madison, Wisconsin), Jo Montie (Minneapolis, MN), Suzanne Martell (Harwich, Massachusetts), Sarah Park (Long Beach, CA) Deborah Taylor (Baltimore, Maryland), Pat Wiser (Sewanee, Tennessee) and Lorrie Wright (Juneau, Alaska). Regional reading and discussion groups participated with many of the committee members throughout the jury's evaluation and selection process.
Plan now to join everyone who will offer their congratulations on October 20th to the authors, artists, editors and publishers of the fine books being honored this year. Many within the children's book community are already planning to attend, as are members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Reservations are not needed. Please come and enjoy!
The Jane Addams Peace Association houses the UN office of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. For information about JAPA and the book awards, visit www.janeaddamspeace.org. and http://www.ala.org/BookLinks, March 2005 issue. For information about WILPF during its 92nd year, visit www.wilpf.int.ch/.
For more information about the Award event, contact JAPA Executive Director Linda B. Belle, 777 United Nations Plaza, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017-3521; 212-682-8830; japa at igc.org.
Online registration is open for "Fear and Fiction: The Power of Children's Books and the Inner Life of the Child," a conference co-sponsored by the Yale Child Study Center and the Anna Freud Centre in London. This unique event will bring together top children's authors with child development experts to discuss the healing role books can play in a world that often seems to bombard children with conflicting messages. The conference will be held at Bank Street College in New York City on Saturday, October 21, 2006. We think this conference will be of great interest and hope you'll consider registering.
Gregory Maguire, author of "Wicked," and Stephen Marans, Ph.D., director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence and author of "Listening to Fear: Helping Kids Cope from Nightmares to the Nightly News" are the keynote speakers. Participating authors include David Almond, Chris Crutcher, Robie H. Harris, Lois Lowry, Pam Munoz Ryan, Martin Waddell, Mo Williams and Jacqueline Woodson. For more information and to register, visit: http://childstudycenter.yale.edu/annafreud
Donna Barkman barkman at bestweb.net
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Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:50:31 -0400
A final reminder about the Jane Addams Children's Book Award ceremony on October 20th, plus a suggestion that you make a children's literature weekend of it all by attending the Yale Child Study Center and Anna Freud Centre children's literature conference on Saturday, October 21st, info included below. We hope to see you there!
INVITATION TO THE JANE ADDAMS CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARDS - 2006
You are invited to attend the presentations of the 53rd Jane Addams Children's Book Awards on Friday, October 20, at 2:30 PM in New York City at 777 United Nations Plaza (2nd Floor) on the corner of 44th St. and 1st Ave. These awards honor books of excellence, published during the previous year, having themes of peace and social justice, conflict resolution, community cooperation, and the equality of genders and all races. An annual event, the ceremony offers a memorable afternoon of presentations, responses by honorees or their representatives, and an opportunity to meet and talk with each honored guest. This year, we are expecting honorees Karen Blumenthal, Benny Andrews, Pamela Porter, and Marlene Carvell to be present to accept their awards. A reception and book signing will follow the presentations, with the honored books available for purchase.
Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights, written by the late Jim Haskins, illustrated by Benny Andrews, and published by Candlewick Press, is the winner in the Books for Younger Children category. Mr. Law, a mail carrier by trade and a courageous activist by conviction, catalyzed and led his community in the peaceful integration of all public facilities in Savannah, Georgia in the 1940s and well beyond. Haskins traces Law's impressive progress in succinct chapters, each accompanied by expressive oil-and-collage illustrations by Andrews.
The winner in the Books for Older Children category is Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America, by Karen Blumenthal and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. Replete with photos, comic strips, and progress "score cards," the book provides exciting moment-by-moment political coverage of the 1972 bill that ensures equal education for girls. The book is splendidly executed in design and documentation.
Poems to Dream Together=Poemas Para So?ar Juntos, written by Francisco X. Alarc?n, illustrated by Paula Barrag?n and published by Lee & Low Books, Inc., has been named an honor book in the Books for Younger Children category. In nineteen short and heartfelt poems in Spanish and English, Alarc?n inspires us to dream alone and to dream and work together, as families and communities, in order to make our hopes for a better world come true. The stylized paintings of Paula Barrag?n colorfully extend and interpret the theme.
Two books have won honors in the Books for Older Children category, each written as a prose poem: The Crazy Man, by Pamela Porter, published by Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, and Sweetgrass Basket, by Marlene Carvell, published by Dutton Children's Books/a Division of Penguin Young Readers Group.
The Crazy Man intertwines the emotional lives of an injured girl, a dazed mother, a runaway father, and a mental patient. Spare free-verse narration of twelve-year-old Emaline tells a story in which everyone is challenged to change in this 1960's Saskatchewan community. Porter touchingly captures both the wide, lonely prairies and the closed minds central to the tension in this book.
Sweetgrass Basket is told in the alternating voices of two young Mohawk sisters. Each describes leaving her beloved home to be schooled in the notorious Carlisle Indian Industrial School, founded in 1879. Devoted to each other and their father, but opposite in personality and outlook, the sisters experience their virtual imprisonment differently: Mattie, rashly defiant, and Sarah, fearfully obedient until it's too late to act.
Members of the 2006 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Committee are Donna Barkman, Chair (Ossining, New York), Dionne Delancy (Brooklyn, New York), Eliza T. Dresang (Tallahassee, Florida), Susan C. Griffith (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan), Margaret Jensen (Madison, Wisconsin), Jo Montie (Minneapolis, MN), Suzanne Martell (Harwich, Massachusetts), Sarah Park (Long Beach, CA) Deborah Taylor (Baltimore, Maryland), Pat Wiser (Sewanee, Tennessee) and Lorrie Wright (Juneau, Alaska). Regional reading and discussion groups participated with many of the committee members throughout the jury's evaluation and selection process.
Plan now to join everyone who will offer their congratulations on October 20th to the authors, artists, editors and publishers of the fine books being honored this year. Many within the children's book community are already planning to attend, as are members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Reservations are not needed. Please come and enjoy!
The Jane Addams Peace Association houses the UN office of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. For information about JAPA and the book awards, visit www.janeaddamspeace.org. and http://www.ala.org/BookLinks, March 2005 issue. For information about WILPF during its 92nd year, visit www.wilpf.int.ch/.
For more information about the Award event, contact JAPA Executive Director Linda B. Belle, 777 United Nations Plaza, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017-3521; 212-682-8830; japa at igc.org.
Online registration is open for "Fear and Fiction: The Power of Children's Books and the Inner Life of the Child," a conference co-sponsored by the Yale Child Study Center and the Anna Freud Centre in London. This unique event will bring together top children's authors with child development experts to discuss the healing role books can play in a world that often seems to bombard children with conflicting messages. The conference will be held at Bank Street College in New York City on Saturday, October 21, 2006. We think this conference will be of great interest and hope you'll consider registering.
Gregory Maguire, author of "Wicked," and Stephen Marans, Ph.D., director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence and author of "Listening to Fear: Helping Kids Cope from Nightmares to the Nightly News" are the keynote speakers. Participating authors include David Almond, Chris Crutcher, Robie H. Harris, Lois Lowry, Pam Munoz Ryan, Martin Waddell, Mo Williams and Jacqueline Woodson. For more information and to register, visit: http://childstudycenter.yale.edu/annafreud
Donna Barkman barkman at bestweb.net
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