The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video Goes to Gagne and Reilly Ellard
RSSBy Phyllis Levy Mandell
In the book (Little, Brown, 2010), Lucy, a young brown bear, meets a little boy in the forest and takes him home. She begs, "Can I keep him, PLEASE?" Even though her mom warns that "children make terrible pets," Lucy promises to take care of him. Of course, disaster ensues, and in the end the young bear has to admit that her mother was right. The animation is superb, the narration is spot-on, and the musical score perfectly suits the action. "We all fell in love with this exuberant video's perfect combination of zany plot, energetic characters, expressive music, and sparkling animation," said Carnegie Medal/Notable Children's Videos Committee Chair Martha Seif Simpson. Administered by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), and established with the support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, "the Carnegie Medal honors an outstanding American video production for children released during the previous year."
January 23, 2012
Once again, Paul R. Gagne and Melissa Reilly Ellard of Weston Woods Studios, Inc., have won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video. They received the 2012 award for Children Make Terrible Pets, based on the book written and illustrated by Peter Brown, with music by Jack Sundrud and Rusty Young, and animation by Soup2Nuts. The award was announced on January 23 at the American Library Association's midwinter meeting.
