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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:27:02 -0600
Sylvia, I'm so glad you pointed out on January 28th that four books of poetry were honored this year by the 2009 Coretta Scott King Awards Committee.
Make that five!
The CSK John Steptoe / New Talent award winner for artwork is Shada Strickland for her wonderful work in the book **/Bird /published by Lee
& Low Books. It's important to remember that a series of absolutely splendid poems written by Zetta Elliott forms the narrative text in
/Bird/. This amazing book is also cited in the 2009 ALSC Notable Children's Books list.
Three cheers for these five fine books! Ginny
Vardell, Sylvia wrote:
> ...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.
>
Sylvia
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:27:02 -0600
Sylvia, I'm so glad you pointed out on January 28th that four books of poetry were honored this year by the 2009 Coretta Scott King Awards Committee.
Make that five!
The CSK John Steptoe / New Talent award winner for artwork is Shada Strickland for her wonderful work in the book **/Bird /published by Lee
& Low Books. It's important to remember that a series of absolutely splendid poems written by Zetta Elliott forms the narrative text in
/Bird/. This amazing book is also cited in the 2009 ALSC Notable Children's Books list.
Three cheers for these five fine books! Ginny
Vardell, Sylvia wrote:
> ...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.
>
Sylvia
-- Ginny Moore Kruse Emerita Director Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) gmkruse at wisc.edu phone: 608.238.9225Received on Fri 30 Jan 2009 02:27:02 PM CST
