 August 2005
American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Sara Burke, Jaime Lederer Pat Farren, Founding Editor 2161 Massachusetts Ave. Telephone number: Fax number:
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Coretta Scott King Children's Book Awards 2005 The Coretta Scott King Award is presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Committee of the ALA's Ethnic Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT). Toni Morrison, author of Remember: The Journey to School Integration, and Kadir Nelson, illustrator of Ellington Was Not a Street, are the winners of the 2005 Coretta Scott King Awards honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults. Barbara Hathaway, author of Missy Violet and Me, is the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award winner; and Frank Morrison, illustrator of Jazzy Miz Mozetta, is the Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award winner. The awards were announced at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting, January 14-19, 2005. Remember: The Journey to School Integration, is Morrison's first historical work for young people. She employed archival photographs to take the reader on a journey remembering "the narrow path, the open door and the wide road" to integration. In Ellington Was Not a Street, Kadir Nelson evokes the feelings of a family album in rich, deep-toned oil paintings which provide a tribute to the legendary African American men whose contributions changed the culture of 20th century America durng the era we now refer to as the Harlem Renaissance. Only occasionally awarded, the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award affirms new talent and offers visibility to excellence in writing and/or illustrations at the beginning of a career as a published children's book creator. Missy Violet and Me, by Barbara Hathaway, introduces Viney, an 11-year-old who is faced with having to help the family pay a debt. She learns about "catching" babies by spending the summer with a local midwife, Missy Violet. Jazzy Miz Mozetta, illustrated by Frank Morrison and written by Brenda C. Roberts, is dynamic, lively and whimsical. It describes in a bold and animated style the night that jazzy Miz Mozetta decided to take a stroll, catching the young and the old off guard. Three King Author Honor Books were selected: The Legend of Buddy Bush by Shelia P. Moses; Who Am I Without Him?: Short Stories About Girls and the Boys in Their Lives, written by Sharon G. Flake; and Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem by Marilyn Nelson.
Two King Illustrator Honor Books were selected:
God Bless the Child illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, written
by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr.; and The People Could
Fly: The Picture Book, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon,
written by Virginia Hamilton. Jane Addams Children's Book Peace Awards Linda B. Belle is the Executive Director of the Jane Addams Peace Association, 777 United Nations Plaza, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017-3521, 212/682-8830, japa@igc.org. For a complete list of books honored since 1953, see <www.janeaddamspeace.org>. Material excerpted here by Peacework volunteer Jaffray Cuyler. Winners of the 2005 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards were announced on April 28, 2005 by the Jane Addams Peace Association (JAPA). Organized on that date in 1915, JAPA is the educational arm of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Books chosen for the Awards effectively address themes or topics that promote peace, justice, world community, and/or equality of the sexes and all races. The books must also meet conventional standards of literary and artistic excellence. Award Winning Book For Younger Children: Sélavi That is life: A Haitian Story of Hope. Written and illustrated by Youme Landowne; (Cinco Puntos Press) Sélavi = c'est la vie. A nameless, homeless boy makes friends on the street and they build a community together through a radio station. This fictional tale is based on real life. Words, pictures and photographs evoke Haiti today. Honor Books For Younger Children: 1. Hot Day on Abbot Avenue. By Karen English; (Clarion Books) How ice cream can help children resolve conflicts. 2. Henry and the Kite Dragon. By Bruce Edward Hall; (Philomel Books/Penguin Young Readers Group) Kites and pigeons filled the skies of Chinatown, NY in the 1920's, and Chinese and Italian children had to learn how to share the same turf. 3. Sequoyah: the Cherokee Man who Gave His People Writing. By James Rumford; (Houghton Mifflin) Sequoyah helped his people "to stand as tall as any people on earth" by creating a syllabary for recording the Cherokee language. Award Winning Book For Older Children: With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote. By Ann Bausum; (National Geographic Society) This book focuses especially on the women's suffragist movement from 1913 to 1920 when US women won the legal right to vote. Bausum frankly addresses the controversies, failures, and triumphs of the effort. Honor Book For Older Children: The Heaven Shop by Deborah Ellis; (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Binti and her siblings lose their parents
to HIV/AIDS and then their freedom, but luckily, their impoverished
and indomitable grandmother is able to reconstitute a family.
The 2005 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards
will be presented on Friday, October 21, 2005 in New York City.
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