From: Julie Kline <jkline>
Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 12:08:57 -0500

Good afternoon,

I'm pleased to share news of the 2009 Am?ricas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature with the CCBC-net community. Please see below.

best wishes,

Julie Kline Am?ricas Award Coordinator

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Julie Kline
Outreach and Academic Program Coordinator
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
PO Box 413
Milwaukee, WI  53201
(414) 229-5986 phone
(414) 229-2879 fax
jkline at uwm.edu <mailto:jkline at uwm.edu>
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS
4-23-2009
 
Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP)**
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*2009*
*Am?ricas Award***
for
Children's and Young Adult Literature
 
 
The Am?ricas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, 
poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works 
for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish 
that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, 
_or_ Latinos in the United States.  By combining both and linking the 
Americas, the award reaches beyond geographic borders, as well as 
multicultural-international boundaries, focusing instead upon cultural 
heritages within the hemisphere.  The award is sponsored by the national 
Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs (CLASP).
 
The award winners and commended titles are selected for their 1) 
distinctive literary quality; 2) cultural contextualization; 3) 
exceptional integration of text, illustration and design; and 4) 
potential for classroom use.  The winning books will be honored at a 
ceremony (fall 2009) during Hispanic Heritage Month at the Library of 
Congress, Washington, D.C.
 
 
*_2009 Am?ricas Award Winners_*
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*Just in Case:  A Trickster Tale and Spanish Alphabet Book *by Yuyi 
Morales.  Roaring Brook Press (A Neal Porter Book), 2008.   32 pgs.  
ISBN 978-1-59643-329-8       
 
*The Surrender Tree:  Poems of  Cuba's Struggle for Freedom *by 
Margarita Engle.  Holt, 2008.  169 pgs.  ISBN 978-0-8050-8674-4
 
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*_Am?ricas Award Honorable Mentions_*
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*The Best Gift of All:  The Legend of La Vieja Bel?n / El Mejor Regalo 
del Mundo:  La Leyenda de la Vieja Bel?n *by Julia Alvarez.  Illustrated 
by Ruddy Nu?ez.  Alfaguara/Santillana, 2008. 32 pgs.  ISBN 978-1-60396-325-1
 
*Dark Dude *by Oscar Hijuelos.   Atheneum, 2008.  440 pgs.      
978-1-4169-4804-9
 
*The Storyteller's Candle / La velita de los cuentos *by Luc?a 
Gonz?lez.  Illustrated by Lulu Delacre.  Children's Book Press, 2008.   
32 pgs.  ISBN 978-0-89239-222-3      
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*_Am?ricas Award Commended Titles_*
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*Animal Poems of the Iguaz?/Animalario del Iguaz? *by Francisco X. 
Alarc?n.  Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonz?lez.  Children's Book 
Press, 2008.   32 pgs.  ISBN 978-0-89239-225-4       
 
*Arco Iris de Poes?a:  Poemas de las Am?ricas y Espa?a *selected by 
Sergio Andrica?n.  Illustrated by Olga Cuellar. Lectorum, 2008.  40pgs.  
ISBN 978-1-930332-59-1
 
*Baila, Nana, Baila / Dance, Nana, Dance:  Cuban Folktales in English 
and Spanish *retold* *by Joe Hayes.  Illustrated by Mauricio Trenard 
Sayago.  Cinco Puntos, 2008.  128 pgs.  ISBN 978-1-933693-17-0 
 
*Cesar Chavez:  Crusader for Social Change* by Brenda Haugen.  Compass 
Point, 2008.  112 pgs.  978-0-7565-3321-2
           
*The Disappeared* by Gloria Whelan.        Dial / Penguin, 
2008.            136 pgs.  978-0-8037-3275-9
 
*Divali Rose *by Vashanti Rahaman.  Illustrated by Jamel Akib.  Boyds 
Mills, 2008.  32 pgs.
 
*Dolores Huerta:  Labor Leader and Civil Rights Activist* by Robin S. 
Doak.   Compass Point, 2008.  112 pgs.  978-0-7565-3477-6
 
*Down to the Bone* by Mayra Lazara Dole.  HarperCollins, 2008.  351 
pgs.  978-0-06-084311-3
 
*Facts of Life* by Gary Soto.  Harcourt, 2008.        174 pgs.  
978-0-15-206181-4
 
*He Forgot to Say Goodbye *by Benjamin Alire S?enz.  Simon & Schuster, 
2008.  321 pgs.  978-1-4169-4963-3
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*Kitchen Dance *by Maurie J.  Manning.  Clarion. 2008.  32 pgs.  ISBN 
978-0-618-99110-5
 
*Pablo (Cuando los Grandes Eran Peque?os) *by Georgina L?zaro.  
Illustrated by Marcela Donoso.  Lectorum, 2008.  32 pgs.  ISBN 
978-1-930332-09-2                       
 
*Peace Jam:  A Billion Simple Acts of Peace  *by Ivan Suvanjieff and 
Dawn Gifford Engle.   Puffin/Penguin, 2008.  197 pgs.  ISBN 
978-0-14-241234-3                                       
 
***A Perfect Season for Dreaming / Un tiempo perfecto para so?ar *by 
Benjamin Alire S?enz.  Illustrated by Esau Andrade Valencia.  Cinco 
Puntos, 2008.   36 pgs.  ISBN 978-1-933693-01-9 
 
*Reaching Out *by Francisco Jim?nez.      Houghton Mifflin, 2008.  194 
pgs.  978-0-618-03851-0
 
*The Secret Legacy *by Rigoberta Mench?.  Illustrated by Domi.  
Groundwood, 2008.  64 pgs.  ISBN 978-0-88899-896-5                        
 
*The Smell of Old Lady Perfume *by Claudia Guadalupe Mart?nez.  Cinco 
Puntos, 2008.  249 pgs.  978-1-933693-18-7
 
*Voices in First Person: Reflections on Latino Identity  *by Lori Marie 
Carlson.   Photographs by Manuel Rivera-Ortiz.  Illustrated by Flavio 
Morais.  Atheneum, 2008.  84 pgs.  ISBN 978-1-4169-0635-3    
 
*The Walls of Cartagena* by Julia Durango.  Illustrated by Tom Pohrt.  
Simon & Schuster, 2008.  150 pgs.   978-1-4169-4102-6
 
*What Can You Do With a Rebozo? *by Carmen Tafolla.  Illustrated by Amy 
C?rdova.  Tricycle Press, 2008.   28 pgs.  ISBN 
978-1-58246-220-2                   
 
 
 
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*_Am?ricas Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature_*
*_Review Committee_*
 
Kristel Foster (Sunnyside Unified School District, Arizona)
Jamie Campbell Naidoo (University of Alabama)
Hollis Rudiger (Madison, Wisconsin)
Elena Gibbons Serapiglia (Yale University, Connecticut)
Patricia Velasco, chairperson (Teachers College, Columbia University, 
New York)
 
*_ Award Coordinator_*
 
Julie Kline
CLASP Committee on Teaching and Outreach
c/o The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of 
Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, Wisconsin  53201
(414) 229-5986 phone; (414) 229-2879 fax
jkline at uwm.edu
www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/aa/index.html 
<http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CLACS/aa/index.html>
 
 

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