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From: Vardell, Sylvia <SVardell>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:09:21 -0600
First of all, congratulations to you on your Newbery honor for AFTER TUPAC AND D FOSTER!! And to KT, too, Arbuthnot Lecturer! Both of you are so deserving and I'm thrilled about both those awards.
I agree that the Coretta Scott King award choices were especially exciting this year. Did you notice that nearly all these books were POETRY? I was so tickled about that!
Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith. Illustrated by E.B. Lewis. Henry Holt, 2008.
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford. Illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Wordsong, 2008.
The Blacker the Berry illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Written by Joyce Carol Thomas. Amistad/HarperCollins, 2008.
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane illustrated by Sean Qualls. Illustrated by Carole Boston Weatherford. Henry Holt, 2008.
And I was lucky enough to serve on the Sibert committee this year and our choice for the Sibert award, WE ARE THE SHIP, received dual CSK awards for the art AND writing. We concur! :-) It is a complete wonder!
Sylvia
Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D. Professor Texas Woman's University School of Library & Information Studies P O Box 425438 Denton TX 76204-5438 940-898-2616 svardell at twu.edu http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/ 09 Sibert Award Committee Co-editor, BOOKBIRD, the journal of international children's literature (http://www.ibby.org)
Author of: POETRY ALOUD HERE! SHARING POETRY WITH CHILDREN IN THE LIBRARY (ALA, 2006) POETRY PEOPLE; A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CHILDREN'S POETS (Libraries Unlimited, 2007) CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ACTION; A LIBRARIAN'S GUIDE (Libraries Unlimited, 2008) BOOK LINKS columnist: Everyday Poetry
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu on behalf of Jacqueline Woodson Sent: Wed 1/28/2009 8:35 AM To: CCBC-NET Subject: [CCBC-Net] Awards
While I was very happy (obviously) with the Newbery Award choices and EXTREMELY psyched about K.T. ( Brilliant, thoughtful, articulate, awesome, KT), I was pretty much over the moon about the CSK choices and how I do wish we could spend some time talking about this. The committee this year chose some really great old and new voices to celebrate and given that this will be its 40th Anniversary, it's gonna be a party! (That I wouldn't miss for the world). I think this award is particularly exciting to me this year because it really makes me think about the importance of these awards in the world. I was just looking at Shadra Strickland's art on line thinking "I should do a book with her" and Hope Anita Smith's stories appeal to young people across the line. And Kadir -- what else can one say about Kadir? He's just a gift to the world in so many ways. So yes, I'm busy preparing my legs for the 4 hour receiving line and explaining to my six year old that while Chicago is no Disneyland?/ World? - wherever we were last year for ALA, there still are some fun things to do there.
Just wanted to take a moment to say this. It's snowing in Brooklyn. Hope you all are warm wherever you are.
Jacqueline Woodson
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Received on Wed 28 Jan 2009 09:09:21 AM CST
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:09:21 -0600
First of all, congratulations to you on your Newbery honor for AFTER TUPAC AND D FOSTER!! And to KT, too, Arbuthnot Lecturer! Both of you are so deserving and I'm thrilled about both those awards.
I agree that the Coretta Scott King award choices were especially exciting this year. Did you notice that nearly all these books were POETRY? I was so tickled about that!
Keeping the Night Watch by Hope Anita Smith. Illustrated by E.B. Lewis. Henry Holt, 2008.
Becoming Billie Holiday by Carole Boston Weatherford. Illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Wordsong, 2008.
The Blacker the Berry illustrated by Floyd Cooper. Written by Joyce Carol Thomas. Amistad/HarperCollins, 2008.
Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane illustrated by Sean Qualls. Illustrated by Carole Boston Weatherford. Henry Holt, 2008.
And I was lucky enough to serve on the Sibert committee this year and our choice for the Sibert award, WE ARE THE SHIP, received dual CSK awards for the art AND writing. We concur! :-) It is a complete wonder!
Sylvia
Sylvia M. Vardell, Ph.D. Professor Texas Woman's University School of Library & Information Studies P O Box 425438 Denton TX 76204-5438 940-898-2616 svardell at twu.edu http://poetryforchildren.blogspot.com/ 09 Sibert Award Committee Co-editor, BOOKBIRD, the journal of international children's literature (http://www.ibby.org)
Author of: POETRY ALOUD HERE! SHARING POETRY WITH CHILDREN IN THE LIBRARY (ALA, 2006) POETRY PEOPLE; A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO CHILDREN'S POETS (Libraries Unlimited, 2007) CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN ACTION; A LIBRARIAN'S GUIDE (Libraries Unlimited, 2008) BOOK LINKS columnist: Everyday Poetry
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu on behalf of Jacqueline Woodson Sent: Wed 1/28/2009 8:35 AM To: CCBC-NET Subject: [CCBC-Net] Awards
While I was very happy (obviously) with the Newbery Award choices and EXTREMELY psyched about K.T. ( Brilliant, thoughtful, articulate, awesome, KT), I was pretty much over the moon about the CSK choices and how I do wish we could spend some time talking about this. The committee this year chose some really great old and new voices to celebrate and given that this will be its 40th Anniversary, it's gonna be a party! (That I wouldn't miss for the world). I think this award is particularly exciting to me this year because it really makes me think about the importance of these awards in the world. I was just looking at Shadra Strickland's art on line thinking "I should do a book with her" and Hope Anita Smith's stories appeal to young people across the line. And Kadir -- what else can one say about Kadir? He's just a gift to the world in so many ways. So yes, I'm busy preparing my legs for the 4 hour receiving line and explaining to my six year old that while Chicago is no Disneyland?/ World? - wherever we were last year for ALA, there still are some fun things to do there.
Just wanted to take a moment to say this. It's snowing in Brooklyn. Hope you all are warm wherever you are.
Jacqueline Woodson
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