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From: Ginny Moore Kruse <gmkruse_at_wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:46:29 -0600
"There is also the option of going back to a bi-annual award. " --Jason Low in letter to CCBC
I was a member of the Pura Belpre Awards Committee when this fledgling award was chosen every other year. (That was also before the rule all members had to have a working knowledge of Spanish.) During those years by the time the awards were announced, the books published in the preceding year of the two-year eligibility were books no longer being promoted by their publishers. The publishing staffs and budgets had moved forward to future promotions. In some instances these books were no longer in print. Giving the awards every single year gives each honored book (and its creators) greater visibility and - possibly - more sales.
Here are several questions for everyone: how many of us hurried to place orders for all the award books announced during the recent ALA conference? Caldecott? Check. Newbery? Maybe. What about the Belpre and the Coretta Scott King Award winners AND Honor Books? And did you order the Batchelder Award books to encourage those publishers to continue the risky proposition of publishing authors with no or little name recognition in this country? And the Schneider Awards - how many of us hurried to buy these books during the past two weeks? If every teacher and librarian (and parent, too) who pays attention to the annual ALA book awards actually made a point of buying those books each year, it's possible there might be a sales impact. More important - more children in all communities would have access to these marvelous books. Am I preaching to the choir? I doubt it.
I'm delighted that Lee & Low has acquired the Children's Book Press books with plans to reissue some of them. What a treasure they represent! And if you want to become engaged in a lively discussion about Education and/or Race and/or Ethnicity in our nation (not only in children's books), get onto one of the Lee & Low listservs to read and respond to Jason Low's consistently provocative, informed essays.
Peace, Ginny
Emerita Director, CCBC, School of Education, UW-Madison, USA gmkruse_at_wisc.edu
Received on Thu 07 Feb 2013 01:46:29 PM CST
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:46:29 -0600
"There is also the option of going back to a bi-annual award. " --Jason Low in letter to CCBC
I was a member of the Pura Belpre Awards Committee when this fledgling award was chosen every other year. (That was also before the rule all members had to have a working knowledge of Spanish.) During those years by the time the awards were announced, the books published in the preceding year of the two-year eligibility were books no longer being promoted by their publishers. The publishing staffs and budgets had moved forward to future promotions. In some instances these books were no longer in print. Giving the awards every single year gives each honored book (and its creators) greater visibility and - possibly - more sales.
Here are several questions for everyone: how many of us hurried to place orders for all the award books announced during the recent ALA conference? Caldecott? Check. Newbery? Maybe. What about the Belpre and the Coretta Scott King Award winners AND Honor Books? And did you order the Batchelder Award books to encourage those publishers to continue the risky proposition of publishing authors with no or little name recognition in this country? And the Schneider Awards - how many of us hurried to buy these books during the past two weeks? If every teacher and librarian (and parent, too) who pays attention to the annual ALA book awards actually made a point of buying those books each year, it's possible there might be a sales impact. More important - more children in all communities would have access to these marvelous books. Am I preaching to the choir? I doubt it.
I'm delighted that Lee & Low has acquired the Children's Book Press books with plans to reissue some of them. What a treasure they represent! And if you want to become engaged in a lively discussion about Education and/or Race and/or Ethnicity in our nation (not only in children's books), get onto one of the Lee & Low listservs to read and respond to Jason Low's consistently provocative, informed essays.
Peace, Ginny
Emerita Director, CCBC, School of Education, UW-Madison, USA gmkruse_at_wisc.edu
Received on Thu 07 Feb 2013 01:46:29 PM CST
