From: Megan Schliesman <schliesman>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:20:59 -0500

We'll spend the rest of March on CCBC-Net talking about the 2007 Coretta Scott King award books.

The Coretta Scott King Awards are "given to African American authors and illustrator for outstanding inspirational and educational contributions, the Coretta Scott King Book Award titles promote understanding and appreciation of the culture of all peoples and their contribution to the realization of the American dream." (From CSK web site at http://www.ala.org//ala/emiert/corettascottkingbookaward/corettascott.htm)

Here are this year's CSK Award books:

CSK Author Award Winner: Copper Sun by Sharon Draper (Atheneum)

CSK Author Award Honor Book: The Road by Paris by Nikki Grimes (Putnam)

CSK Illustrator Award Winner: Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom illustrated by Kadir Nelson. Written by Carole Boston Weatherford (Jump at the Sun / Hyperion)

CSK Illustrator Award Honor Books:

Jazz illustrated by Christopher Myers. Written by Walter Dean Myers
(Holiday House)

Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes illustrated by Benny Andrews. Edited by David Roessel and Arnold Rampersad (Sterling)

CSK John Steptoe New Talent Award: Standing Against the Wind by Traci L. Jones (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)


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 

Received on Wed 21 Mar 2007 08:20:59 AM CDT