From: Catherine Baer <cabaer_at_scls.lib.wi.us>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 09:42:00 -0600

The Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society has awarded their 2012 Aesop Prize to the masterfully created picture book/Which Side Are You On?: The Story of a Song,/ by George Ella Lyon. Published by Cinco Puntos Press./Which Side Are You On?/ is the compelling story of the desperate circumstances that prompted the writing of a pivotal song by Florence Reece, a fearless coal miner's wife who raised her family during the mining strikes of the 1920s and '30s in eastern Kentucky.

Aesop Accolades were awarded to the books /Mouse and Lion/, by Rand Burkert and Nancy Ekholm Burkert, published by Michael di Capua Books (Scholastic of New York), a beautifully rendered version of the Aesop fable, set in the Aha Hills bordering Botswana and Namibia; /The Matatu/, by Eric Walters and illustrated by Eva Campbell, published by Orca Book Publishers of Victoria, British Columbia, a story based on a Kamba folktale from Kenya; and/Walking on Earth and Touching the Sky: Poetry and //Prose by Lakota Youth at the Red Cloud Indian School/, edited by Timothy P. McLaughlin with paintings by S.D. Nelson, published by Abrams Books of New York, an anthology of works by Lakota youth that is an outgrowth of their cultural experience.

The Aesop Prize and the Aesop Accolades are conferred annually by the Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society upon English language books for children and young adults, both fiction and nonfiction.

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Catherine Baer, chair Aesop Award Committee Children's Folklore Section American Folklore Society
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