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RE: Really "Marginal" Awards?

From: sully_at_sully-writer.com
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:10:29 -0700
 
Wow, I pride myself on keeping on top of this stuff but I am familiar with only one of those mentioned. Let me also throw in IRA's Notable Books for a Global Society, which I served on for 3 years. It's an annual list of 25 books that has an international and multicultural focus. Serving on the selection committee was one of the best experiences I've ever had. That list definitely does not have the profile it deserves. It was while serving on that committee that I became more cognizant of the disparity between the number of multicultural titles published by independents vs. corporate-owned  publishers. There's also USBBY's annual Outstanding International Children's Books. I haven't served on that one but I'm beginning another stint on the USBBY board. Two others to keep in mind are the Sidney Taylor and Jane Addams Awards. Jane Addams is not specifically multicultural but the titles selected often are because of the social justice focus.
 

Edward T. Sullivan, Rogue Librarian
 
 
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Subject: [ccbc-net] Really "Marginal" Awards?
From: "Woltering, Denise C" <dwolteri@tulane.edu>
Date: Thu, February 06, 2014 10:25 am
To: "ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu" <ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu>

Morning everyone!

Additional resources on the subject of “Marginal” awards. Just thought I’d chime in and share some resources available via other awards which continue to be overlooked sadly.  We have found strength and bigger impact however, together by presenting/exhibiting at conferences such as NCTE (National Council for Teachers of English) and NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) where teachers are looking for quality texts to bring into the classroom.    

The Américas Award <http://claspprograms.org/americasaward> sponsored by the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs <http://claspprograms.org/>.  The award was founded in 1993 (20 years old!) by Julie Kline at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.  I am one of the coordinators of the award and we continue to fight to gain exposure especially as we are not sponsored by the ALA and are sponsored by universities looking to sponsor authentic and engaging children’s literature for the K-12 classroom.

Started in 1991.

Middle East Children’s Book Award http://www.meoc.us/meoc/book-awards
Begin in 1999.

South Asia Book Award http://southasiabookaward.org/


On 2/4/14, 10:15 AM, "Foote, Diane" <dfoote@dom.edu> wrote:

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@dom.edu, 708-524-6054

Diane Foote
Assistant Dean, GSLIS
Dominican University
7900 W. Division St.
River Forest, IL 60305



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