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From: Foote, Diane <dfoote_at_dom.edu>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:15:32 +0000
Hello everyone! Fascinating discussion! And amazingly informative stats coming out of the CCBC -- kudos to you all; this is a huge service to all of us.
I disagree strongly with the notion that ethnic awards are "marginalized." If you compare them to the Caldecott and Newbery, maybe so. But by that measure, every single existing children's book award is marginalized, including the National Book Award. It's just really hard to compare awards that have been around for 75+ years with everything else. If Belpre and CSK are marginalized, then so are the Sibert, Geisel, Wilder, Carnegie, Batchelder, etc. awards.
The CSK is almost 45; the Belpre almost 20. The CSK does have a higher profile than the Belpre RIGHT NOW; perhaps that will change as awareness grows (and let's not be passive; each and every one of us, as KT notes and so many here have agreed we do, needs to talk up these books, write about these books, and BUY these books; hehe, we're probably preaching to the choir here). I do think awareness of the Belpre will grow faster than awareness for other awards, given the enormous growth of Latinos as a portion of the U.S. population.
I echo the call for all of us to suggest books by and about people of all ethnicities to people of all ethnicities: I do buy gift books and make book recommendations across cultures and I'm so glad many here also do that. I'm sad THE CREATION by James Weldon Johnson, illustrated by James E. Ransome, is out of print; that was one of my favorite gifts to give at christenings and baptisms!
--Diane, dfoote_at_dom.edu, 708-524-6054
Diane Foote Assistant Dean, GSLIS Dominican University 7900 W. Division St. River Forest, IL 60305 http://www.dom.edu/gslis
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:15:32 +0000
Hello everyone! Fascinating discussion! And amazingly informative stats coming out of the CCBC -- kudos to you all; this is a huge service to all of us.
I disagree strongly with the notion that ethnic awards are "marginalized." If you compare them to the Caldecott and Newbery, maybe so. But by that measure, every single existing children's book award is marginalized, including the National Book Award. It's just really hard to compare awards that have been around for 75+ years with everything else. If Belpre and CSK are marginalized, then so are the Sibert, Geisel, Wilder, Carnegie, Batchelder, etc. awards.
The CSK is almost 45; the Belpre almost 20. The CSK does have a higher profile than the Belpre RIGHT NOW; perhaps that will change as awareness grows (and let's not be passive; each and every one of us, as KT notes and so many here have agreed we do, needs to talk up these books, write about these books, and BUY these books; hehe, we're probably preaching to the choir here). I do think awareness of the Belpre will grow faster than awareness for other awards, given the enormous growth of Latinos as a portion of the U.S. population.
I echo the call for all of us to suggest books by and about people of all ethnicities to people of all ethnicities: I do buy gift books and make book recommendations across cultures and I'm so glad many here also do that. I'm sad THE CREATION by James Weldon Johnson, illustrated by James E. Ransome, is out of print; that was one of my favorite gifts to give at christenings and baptisms!
--Diane, dfoote_at_dom.edu, 708-524-6054
Diane Foote Assistant Dean, GSLIS Dominican University 7900 W. Division St. River Forest, IL 60305 http://www.dom.edu/gslis
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