From: 4joyces at mchsi.com <4joyces>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:19:02 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed both TEAM MOON and QUEST FOR THE TREE KANGAROO.

TEAM MOON is winningly told, involving so many of the people behind the scenes--with quotes from their very lips--that I finally had a sense of what a tremendous undertaking the moon launch was, involving so many people, with so many chances for failure. And the dramatic black pages plunge the reader into contemplation of that vast void into which these travelers journeyed.

In another kind of journey, Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop give us a wonderful sense of life in the villages where the TREE KANGAROOS are found. I consistently love the books of this writer-photographer pair, who always explore such interesting mysteries and find such fascinating people to learn from.

These books demonstrate how the best current nonfiction is a far cry from the dry science texts I grew up with.

Joyce Sidman


> We thank you for your many announcements and continued discussion of ALA
> award books.
>
> Today we are scheduled to begin discussion of the 2007 Sibert Award
> winner and honor books:
>
> Winner:
>
> Team Moon : How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine
> Thimmesh (Houghton Mifflin)
>
> Honor Books:
>
> Freedom Riders: John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the Front Lines of the Civil
> Rights Movement by Ann Bausum (National Geographic)
>
> Quest for the Tree Kangaroo An Expedition to the Cloud Forest of New
> Guinea by Sy Montgomery. Photos by Nic Bishop. (Houghton)
>
> To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel. Ill.by
> Mark Siegel. (A Richard Jackson Book / Simon & Schuster)
>
>
> These are four very different books that really show a range of what
> excellence in non-fiction publishing can be.
>
> What are your thoughts about 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
>
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> fax: 608-262-4933
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