Winter, Partridge Nab Jane Addams Children's Book Awards
RSS-- School Library Journal, 05/04/2010
A picture book about the changes in Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power and a nonfiction book about the role of African-American children during the civil rights movement are winners of this year’s Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, which honor books that engage children in thinking about peace, justice, world community, and equality of the sexes and all races.
Jeanette Winter’s Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan (S & S)is the winner in the younger children category, while Elizabeth Partridge’s Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary (Viking) won in the books for older children category.
The two honor books in the category for younger children were: Sojourner Truth’s Step-Stomp Stride (Jump at the Sun) by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney, a picture book biography about a woman born a slave in upstate New York during the abolitionist and woman’s suffrage movements, and You and Me and Home Sweet Home (Richard Jackson Book/Atheneum Books) by George Ella Lyon and Stephanie Anderson, about a whole community that comes together to help Sharonda and her mother build their house.
The two honor books in the older children category are: Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream (Candlewick) by Tanya Lee Stone, about thirteen women pilots, known as Mercury 13, who performed consistently better than men on a battery of psychological and physical tests required to become astronauts 50 years ago but did not become astronauts, and Claudette Colvin, (Farrar, Straus ) by Phillip Hoose, a biography of a relatively unknown teenager who refused to give up her bus seat during the civil rights movement months before Rosa Parks.
Presented annually since 1953, the Jane Addams Children's Book will be presented Friday, October 15 in New York City at an event supported by the Hasting's Peace and Justice Fund of New York City in honor of Peg Dunham
