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From: Gerber Daniel T <gerber.dani>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:53:17 -0600
Science Books & Films (SB&F) also has a prize for science trade books
(see http://www.sbfonline.com/SubaruAward/winners07.htm ). Please note that Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh. (Houghton Mifflin) also was the 2007 Middle Grades Science Book winner.
Tim Gerber, Ph.D. Biology University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 1725 State St. La Crosse, WI 54601 608-785-6977 (office phone) gerber.dani at uwlax.edu (email)
STEM website http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/departments/curriculum/stem/index.htm l TULIP Project website http://www.uwlax.edu/faculty/gerber/
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Hastings, Waller Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:11 AM To: Kathy Isaacs; Kathy Johnson Cc: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] 2007 Sibert Award
Note that there are non-fiction awards other than those given by the ALSC. The National Council of Teachers of English annually awards the Orbis Pictus Award for the outstanding work of nonfiction for young readers. I don't know their recent winners, but given that the organization consists mostly of secondary and higher-education English teachers, it seems likely the award would include books for older youth.
waller hastings
northern state university
aberdeen, sd 57401
hastingw at northern.edu
"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." - Oliver Cromwell, to his enemies
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[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Kathy Isaacs Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 1:48 PM To: Kathy Johnson Cc: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] 2007 Sibert Award
You raise an interesting point. The Sibert Award is given to informational books for readers up through 14, so it is not surprising that those books do not appear to be aimed at high school readers. And I recently had a conversation with an adult writer-hopeful who felt that
the Scientist in the Field series books I showed her (two of which have now received Sibert honors) must be for children - that is, 2nd-4th graders - because of the large number of pictures. And yet, a group of college juniors - elementary teachers to be - who also looked at 4 or 5 books from this series, felt that they were too difficult for their students, too wordy, and hard even for the college students to understand.
What age reader WOULD enjoy these books as leisure reading? What is the experience of librarians in the field?
My own feeling is that middle school readers and beyond - all the way to
adults - can enjoy books like the ones that were honored by the Sibert Committee this year. (I'm excepting To Dance which I haven't seen yet, but the cover is certainly aimed at a younger reader.) They aren't books for research, but for introducing the reader to a new subject or experience. Or, if you are an older adult for whom the race to the moon and the struggle for civil rights was part of your own history, they put together half-remembered history is a new perspective. All three were wonderful choices.
Kathy Isaacs
Kathy Johnson wrote:
> As someone who focuses on the young adult, especially high school end
> of the spectrum, once again this year I notice that the award-winning
> non-fiction is all intended (or at least labeled) for younger
> readers.
>
;;;
> On a related issue, a colleague has noticed that the large trim size
> of a number of non-fiction titles often leads them to be shelved in
> Children's Rooms, where Teens are reluctant to pick them up and read
> them because they look too much like picture books.
>
>
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Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:53:17 -0600
Science Books & Films (SB&F) also has a prize for science trade books
(see http://www.sbfonline.com/SubaruAward/winners07.htm ). Please note that Team Moon: How 400,000 People Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon by Catherine Thimmesh. (Houghton Mifflin) also was the 2007 Middle Grades Science Book winner.
Tim Gerber, Ph.D. Biology University of Wisconsin-La Crosse 1725 State St. La Crosse, WI 54601 608-785-6977 (office phone) gerber.dani at uwlax.edu (email)
STEM website http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/departments/curriculum/stem/index.htm l TULIP Project website http://www.uwlax.edu/faculty/gerber/
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Hastings, Waller Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 8:11 AM To: Kathy Isaacs; Kathy Johnson Cc: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] 2007 Sibert Award
Note that there are non-fiction awards other than those given by the ALSC. The National Council of Teachers of English annually awards the Orbis Pictus Award for the outstanding work of nonfiction for young readers. I don't know their recent winners, but given that the organization consists mostly of secondary and higher-education English teachers, it seems likely the award would include books for older youth.
waller hastings
northern state university
aberdeen, sd 57401
hastingw at northern.edu
"I beseech you in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken." - Oliver Cromwell, to his enemies
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Kathy Isaacs Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 1:48 PM To: Kathy Johnson Cc: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] 2007 Sibert Award
You raise an interesting point. The Sibert Award is given to informational books for readers up through 14, so it is not surprising that those books do not appear to be aimed at high school readers. And I recently had a conversation with an adult writer-hopeful who felt that
the Scientist in the Field series books I showed her (two of which have now received Sibert honors) must be for children - that is, 2nd-4th graders - because of the large number of pictures. And yet, a group of college juniors - elementary teachers to be - who also looked at 4 or 5 books from this series, felt that they were too difficult for their students, too wordy, and hard even for the college students to understand.
What age reader WOULD enjoy these books as leisure reading? What is the experience of librarians in the field?
My own feeling is that middle school readers and beyond - all the way to
adults - can enjoy books like the ones that were honored by the Sibert Committee this year. (I'm excepting To Dance which I haven't seen yet, but the cover is certainly aimed at a younger reader.) They aren't books for research, but for introducing the reader to a new subject or experience. Or, if you are an older adult for whom the race to the moon and the struggle for civil rights was part of your own history, they put together half-remembered history is a new perspective. All three were wonderful choices.
Kathy Isaacs
Kathy Johnson wrote:
> As someone who focuses on the young adult, especially high school end
> of the spectrum, once again this year I notice that the award-winning
> non-fiction is all intended (or at least labeled) for younger
> readers.
>
;;;
> On a related issue, a colleague has noticed that the large trim size
> of a number of non-fiction titles often leads them to be shelved in
> Children's Rooms, where Teens are reluctant to pick them up and read
> them because they look too much like picture books.
>
>
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