From: Caroline Parr <CParr_at_crrl.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:49:49 -0500

We held our mock Coretta Scott King Awards discussion this afternoon at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library with the following results:

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award

Winner: My People by Langston Hughes; photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr. Honor Books: The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes; illus. by E.B. Lewis

Testing the Ice by Sharon Robinson; illustrated by Kadir Nelson

Coretta Scott King Author Award

Winner: tied between Peace, Locomotion by Jacqueline Woodson and The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon Honor Book: Flygirl by Sherri L. Smith

Additional titles discussed for the illustrator award were Bad News for Outlaws by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Change has Come illustrated by Kadir Nelson

Additional titles discussed for the author award were Amiri and Odette by Walter Dean Myers and Mare's War by Tanita S. Davis

Caroline S. Parr

Coordinator of Youth Services

Central Rappahannock Regional Library

1201 Caroline St., Fredericksburg, VA 22401

540-372-1160 www.LibraryPoint.org
Received on Tue 12 Jan 2010 04:49:49 PM CST