From: Griffith, Susan C <griff2sc>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:35:41 -0400

We are pleased to announce the following-Susan Griffith, Chair, Addams Award Committee:

 

2009 Jane Addams Children's Book Award: Winners and Honor Books

 

Winners

 

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai. By Claire A. Nivola. Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. (Books for Younger Children)

 

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom. By Margarita Engle. Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. (Books for Older Children)

 

Honor Books

 

Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad. By James Rumford. A Neal Porter Book/Roaring Brook Press, an imprint of Macmillan children's Publishing Group. (Books for Younger Children)

 

The Storyteller's Candle/La velita de los cuentos. Story by Lucia Gonzalez. Illustrations by Lulu Delacre. Children's Book Press.
(Books for Younger Children)

 

Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry. By Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson. National Geographic. (Books for Older Children)

 

The Shepherd's Granddaughter by Anne Laurel Carter. Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press. (Books for Older Children)

 

The Jane Addams Children's Book Award is given annually to children's books that most effectively and engagingly invite children to think about issues related to peace, social justice, world community and equality of gender and race. More information about this Award that is sponsored by the Jane Addams Peace Association, the educational arm of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, can be found at www.janeaddamspeace.org

 

 
Received on Tue 28 Apr 2009 12:35:41 PM CDT