2006 Newbery, Caldecott awards
This article from the Christian Science Monitor caught my eye: Some top 2006 awards conferred
In the crowded field of books for children, a single award can make or break a career. So aficionados of children's literature were eager for last week's announcement from the American Library Association which, at their midwinter meeting in San Antonio, announced the winners of some top children's book awards.So here are the award winning books, with links to the San Francisco Public Library and Amazon included.
The winner of the 2006 Newbery Medal is
The 2006 Newbery honor books are
- Whittington, by Alan Armstong SFPL (Amazon)
- "Hitler Youth" : growing up in Hitler's shadow, by Susan Campbell Bartoletti(SFPL) (Amazon)
- "Princess Academy", by Shannon Hale (SFPL) (Amazon)
- "Show way", by Jacqueline Woodson (Amazon)
The Caldecott Medal 2006 winner is
All of which will be found in a Scholastic book order soon, I'm sure. I'm not clear if these awards are a good thing or not — I'm sure many good children's books languish while lesser books that get the award thrive. Yet they do make it easy for busy parents (and educators too, I'm sure) to find good books for their kids without having to read reams of children's lit.
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I read that "Good Night Moon" languished unnoticed for 20 years after it was published (the author, an eccentric lesbian outsider, had a prolific output and had scored some successes). Then the someone at the New York Public Library system noticed this charming, obscure book and ordered a bunch of copies, and it took off. It was Oprah of 1970.
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