Jane Addams Children’s Book Award Winners Announced
Posted by: Courtney Jones
A favored award among the books for youth editors was announced today by the Jane Addams Peace Association. Later this week Gillian will devote a post to one of the winners. I’ll keep the subject a surprise for now.
In the meantime, the winners are:
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, written and illustrated by Claire A. Nivola
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom, by Margarita Engle
Honors went to:
Younger Children
The Storyteller’s Candle/La velita de los cuentos, by Lucía González, Illustrated by Lulu Delacre
Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad, written and illustrated by James Rumford
Older Children
The Shepherd’s Granddaughter, by Anne Laurel Carter
Ain’t Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry, by Scott Reynolds Nelson with Marc Aronson
