Literary Awards
- “Stories,
Jane Addams and Social Justice” (Abstract
2)
Assistant
Professor Susan C. Griffith, Ph.D.,
Michigan USA
- “Between
Honouring Literary Excellence and Promoting Reading – over 50 Years
of German Youth Literature Award” (Abstract
44)
Dr.
Hannelore Daubert , Germany
- “New
Book Awards: Best Picture Books for Reading Aloud”
(Abstract 78)
Professor
Carol Hanson Sibley , MN , USA
- “Celebrate
a New Children´s Literature Award Encouraging Environmental Stewardship:
The Green Earth Book Award” (Abstract
124)
Assistant
professor, Ph.D. Patricia Dean & Associate professor, Ph.D. Ernest
Bond, MD, USA
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Stories,
Jane Addams and Social Justice
In
the aftermath of World War II, with the belief that “the future of the
world lies in ‘hearts too young for enmity',” the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom established the Jane Addams Children's Book
Award. This annual award commends children's books with themes of peace
and social justice published in the United States . Focusing on key Addams
Award winners from 1954 to the present, this exploration describes, critiques
and contextualizes stories used to represent leaders of struggles for
human rights, children facing injustice, and conflicts caused by prejudice
and repression throughout the world. In doing so, it offers an historical
overview of how social justice and injustice have been presented to children
in the United States and raises questions about the blending of social
justice with the literary arts.
Dr.
Susan C. Griffith teaches children's literature and writing in the elementary
school in the Department of English Language and Literature at Central
Michigan University , Mt. Pleasant , Michigan , U.S.A. She is an educator,
librarian and children's literature specialist who has worked with prospective
and practicing teachers for the past twenty years. She has been a member
of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award Committee since 2004 and is now
its chair. She received her doctorate in Educational Studies from Lesley
University ( Cambridge , Massachusetts , U.S.A).
Susan
C. Griffith, Ph.D. griff2sc@cmich.edu
Assistant
Professor
Department
of English Language and Literature
Anspach
215
Central
Michigan University
Mt.
Pleasant, Michigan 48859
United
States of America
989-774-3146
989-774-1271
Fax
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Between
honouring literary excellence and promoting reading - over 50 years of
German Youth Literature Award
Hannelore
Daubert
The
The German Youth Literature Award, the only state prize for literature
in Germany , was awarded in October 2006 for the 50 th time. This prize
is intended to support the development of children´s literature,
to keep public interest in it alive and to encourage public discussion
of it. The 50-year history of this award is also the history of the development
of children´s literature in Germany . The decisions of the jury
over this time document changes in cultural history and reflect altered
concepts of childhood as well as modifications in emphasis within the
criticism of children´s literature.
The
prize, for which books in translation are eligible as well as books by
German authors and illustrators – for this is an international award –
is chosen by two mutually independent juries. An autonomous youth jury,
drawn from reading clubs from all over Germany awards its own youth jury
prize. A jury of critics, consisting of nine adult experts in children´s
literature awards the prize in four actegories: picturebooks, children´s
books, books for young people and non-fiction. The autonomous youth jury
was established in 2003 to face the everlasting conflict between the two
aims of the prize: on one hand to honour literary/artistic excellence,
and on the other, to encourag and promote reading. In the best-case scenario
theses two principles can be brought together, but the best-case scenarion
does not always exists.
In
the currently very varied prize landscape in Germany there are three features
that distiguish the “Deutsche Jugendliteraturpreis” (DJLP): its internationality,
its diversity and its credibility.
Dr.
Hannelore Daubert is a lecturer in children´s literature at Goeth-
University in Frankfurt ( Germany ), author and editor of scholarly publications,
former president of IBBY Germany (2000 – 2006) and current member of the
IBBY EC.
attached
you find my proposal for a short presantation of the German Youth Literature
Award (Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis), which may be a modell for those
who are thinking about establishing an award for children´s literature
in their country. There are many interesting facts to talk about (the
permanent tension between honouring literary execellence on one hand and
promoting reading on the other, or the changing images, what will be a
“good” book over the last 50 years and of course our actual raeding promotion
projct based on the prize books “Readers are winners”).
Dr.
Hannelore Daubert
Johann
Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Campus
Westend
Institut
für Jugendbuchforschung
Grüneburgplatz
1
60323
Frankfurt/Main
Telefon:
+49 69 798 33008
Fax:
+49 69 798 32996
Email:
daubert@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Homepage:
http://www.rz.uni-frankfurt.de/~daubert
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New
book awards: Best picture books for reading aloud
Abstract:
Participants
will learn about two children's book awards that recognize the best recently
published picture books to read aloud to children, one award (Comstock
Book Award) for books for children eight to twelve-years-old and one award
(Wanda Gag Book Award) for books aimed at younger children. The presenter
will share the goals of the awards and the process for selecting these
annual awards, as well as provide an annotated bibliography of the book
award winners and honor books since 2005. Also, highlighted will be the
popularity of picture books by international authors/illustrators, including
those from Canada , Colombia , Denmark , France , Germany , Korea , and
Spain .
These
annual book awards are sponsored by the Curriculum Materials Center at
Minnesota State University Moorhead in Moorhead , Minnesota , USA . Selecting
the books for the two awards is a community project with about 150 university
students, preschool and elementary teachers, and public and school librarians
reading aloud each year. Readers provide feedback on each book. Nearly
20,000 children listen to these read aloud picture books each year. As
far as we know, these awards are the only read aloud awards based on field
testing books with children. More information about this program is available
on the website: http://www.mnstate.edu/cmc/ComstockReadingAloudInitiative.htm
.
Biographical
data: Carol Hanson Sibley, who administers the Read Aloud Award Program,
is a Professor at Livingston Lord Library, Minnesota State University
Moorhead, Moorhead , Minnesota , USA . At the Library she is responsible
for resources for Teacher Education students, who are preparing to teach
children from birth through high school age. Her specialty is literature
for children and young adults. She also teaches undergraduate and graduate
course in literature for young readers.
Contact
details:
Carol
Hanson Sibley
Livingston
Lord Library
Minnesota
State University Moorhead
1104
Seventh Avenue South
Moorhead
, MN , USA 56563
Telephone:
218.477.2347
FAX:
218.477.5924
Email:
sibley@mnstate.edu
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Celebrate
a New Children's Literature Award Encouraging Environmental Stewardship:
The Green Earth
Book Award
Abstract:
With
the future of our earth in peril, there is no better way to work toward
preservation than through our children. And what better way to empower
children to make a difference in the world than through children's literature?
This is the premise that inspired the inception of the Green Earth Book
Award, an award given in three categories to children's literature that
embraces the environment through a combination of story and stewardship.
The
children's literature award was the inspiration of the Newton Marasco
Foundation, an environmental non-profit organization whose mission is
to encourage people to “Go Green” and learn ways to sustain the environment.
The first award was given in 2005, chosen from a field of about 60 books.
In 2006, the award was expanded to include young adult literature. In
2007, awards were given in three groups: Children's Literature, Young
Adult Literature, and Nonfiction. Nearly 200 books were submitted for
judging.
During
our presentation we will share the award-winning books and criteria used
in the selection process. It is our hope that an international presentation
at the IBBY Conference will encourage international authors/illustrators
who publish in the US to submit work for future consideration for this
prestigious award.
Presenters
Patricia
Dean, Ph.D. (on the selection committee for the Children's Literature
portion of the Green Earth Book Award)
Assistant
Professor, Department of Teacher Education
Seidel
School of Education
& Professional Studies
Salisbury
University
1101
Camden Avenue
Salisbury
, MD 21801
USA
pkdean@salisbury.edu
Work phone: 001.410.548.5756; Home Phone:
001.410.334.2320
Ernest
Bond, Ph.D. (A member of USBBY; on the selection committee for all three
areas of the Green Earth Book Award)
Associate
Professor, Department of Teacher Education
Seidel
School of Education
& Professional Studies
Salisbury
University
1101
Camden Avenue
Salisbury
, MD 21801
USA
elbond@salisbury.edu
Work Phone: 001.410.548.3257
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