From: Carling Febry <cafebry_at_wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:15:22 -0500

Thanks to everyone for a great discussion of our "Global Reading" topic during the first few weeks of June. If you have any final thoughts, please feel free to share them.

Now we'll move from global reading to global creativity in the second half of June when we look at the works of four illustrators who are nominees for the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award: John Burningham (United Kingdom), Bob Graham (Australia), Chris Raschka (United States), and Peter Sнs (Czech Republic). Each of these nominees from a different nation has created books that are widely available here in the United States, and each has a distinctive vision reflected in his work for children. (The Hans Christian Andersen Awards , sponsored by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), are presented every two years to an author and an illustrator whose complete works have made an important and lasting contribution to children's literature. Nominees come from IBBY member councils in countries around the world and usually include an author and an illustrator from each member nation.)

We look forward to your thoughts on these four illustrators' bodies of work and overall contribution to children's literature.

Carling

-- Carling Febry Librarian Cooperative Children's Book Center 4290 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706

Phone: 608-890-1332 Fax: 608-262-4933

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Received on Mon 20 Jun 2011 02:15:22 PM CDT