From: Kathleen T. Horning <horning_at_education.wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:17:52 -0600

Jonathan Hunt just mentioned "Marcelo in the Real World " as a book he expected to see get more attention this year from award committees. There is one award committee that didn't overlook it, since it won in the Teen Book category for the Schneider Family Book Awards from ALA. This is an an award that goes to books in three categories -- Teen, Middle School, and Young Children -- for "artistic expression of the disability experience for child and adolescent audiences." In 2010 the winners were:

Teen: "Marcelo in the Real World" by Francisco X. Stork (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)

Middle School "Anything but Typical" by Nora Raleigh Baskin (Simon & Schuster)

Young Child: "Django" by Bonnie Christensen (Neal Porter/Roaring Brook)

We welcome your comments about any or all of this year's winners, as well as any observations you'd like to make about the portrayal of disability in general in books for children and teens.

Kathleen T. Horning Director Cooperative Children's Book Center 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St Madison, WI 53706

Phone: 608-263-3721 FAX: 608-262-4933

horning_at_education.wisc.edu http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
Received on Mon 22 Feb 2010 03:17:52 PM CST