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Coretta Scott King Winners
Coretta Scott King Awards are given each year to an outstanding black author and illustrator.
Author award
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson won the Coretta Scott King Author Award for “Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal.” Vaunda has written several books
for kids. She has also worked as a teacher, newspaper reporter and children’s librarian. She lives in Rio Rancho, N.M.
“Bad News for Outlaws: The Remarkable Life of Bass Reeves, Deputy U.S. Marshal” is the true story of a lawman who was born a slave.
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Ready Resources
books or other resources that will help you learn more about this week’s topics.
On the Web:
• www.jerrypinkneystudio.com/frameset.html • www.rebeccasteadbooks.com • www.americaslibrary.gov • http://kids.nypl.org • www.ipl.org/div/kidspace
At the library:
• “The Art of Reading: Forty Illustrators Celebrate RIF’s 40th Anniversary” by Reading Is Fundamental
• “Word After Word After Word” by Patricia MacLachlan The Mini Page provides ideas for Web sites,
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Illustrator award
Charles R.
Smith Jr. won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for “My People.” He has written
Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
several books for kids and also writes poetry. In addition, he takes photographs for a living. He learned to love photography
Charles R. Smith Jr.
when he began shooting pictures for his yearbook in high school. He loves basketball and baseball
and has written and taken pictures for books about these sports.
In “My People,” Charles Smith uses photographs to illustrate a poem by Langston Hughes.
Honor awards
There was one Author Honor Book
and one Illustrator Honor Book this year.
Author honor
Tanita S. Davis grew up in California and now lives in Scotland, where she sings, dances and writes.
In “Mare’s War,” a grandmother opens her granddaughters’ eyes with stories of her service in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II.
Illustrator honor
E.B. Lewis has illustrated
many books for kids. He teaches illustration at a college.
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” is a poem by Langston Hughes.
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Library Week TRY ’N
FIND
Words that remind us of things you can find at the library are hidden in the block below. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally. See if you can find: ART, BOOKS, COMPUTERS, DATA, DIARIES, DICTIONARIES, ENCYCLOPEDIAS, FACTS, FICTION, INTERNET, JOKES, LAWS, MAGAZINE, MAP, MOVIES, MUSIC, NEWSPAPERS, STORIES, VIDEOS.
DISCOVER THE WORLD AT THE LIBRARY!
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Newbery and Caldecott 2010 Winners
Have you visited a library recently?
This year, National Library Week will be celebrated from April 11-17. The theme is “Communities thrive @ your library.” In honor of libraries, The Mini Page
talked with the winners of the 2010 Caldecott and Newbery medals.
The John Newbery Medal is awarded each year to the author of the most outstanding children’s book. This year’s medal was awarded to Rebecca Stead for “When You Reach Me.”
Writing for a living
Rebecca was working as a lawyer
when she took a short-story writing class. She loved it and kept writing after the class. After her second son was born, she quit her job and started writing her first book.
“When You Reach Me” tells of a sixth- grade girl, Miranda, growing up in New York City in 1979. When she starts getting notes that tell the future, she sets out to solve the mystery of who is sending them.
Rebecca Stead, 42, lives in New York City. She and her husband, Sean O’Brien, have two sons, Jack, 11, and Eli, 9.
Some favorites
Color: “I don’t have one now, but if
I did have one, it might be orange. But the next time, it might be purple.” Hobbies: Reading, seeing plays, working with arts and crafts Music: When she’s writing, she
doesn’t listen to music with words. She listens to classical music or guitar music. When she’s not writing, she said, “I sometimes like to listen to music that reminds me of the book I’m writing.”
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Meet Author Rebecca Stead
Growing up
Rebecca Stead (pronounced STED)
went to school in New York City. The school system brought in writers, filmmakers and artists to work with students throughout the school year. Because of this program, her elementary school put out a literary journal of the students’ writing and artwork. The visiting writers and her teachers had to push her to finish her stories. She kept starting them, but they had no endings. The first story she finished, “The
Spicy Meatball,” was published in this journal when she was in sixth grade.
In “First Light,” Peter joins his parents on a scientific trip to Greenland. While on an ice cap, Peter has mysterious visions. At the same time, a girl, Thea, hides with her amazing people deep under the arctic ice.
Advice for kids
“The best advice I’ve heard is, ‘First
read,’” Rebecca said. For her, reading “is the gas in the tank. It’s what makes me go as a writer.” She said reading “gets me excited about my own writing.”
jacket art © 2009 by R. Gregory Christie, published by Carolrhoda Books
jacket art © 2009 by Charles R. Smith Jr., published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers
jacket art © 2009 by E.B. Lewis, published by Disney Jump at the Sun Books
jacket art © 2009, published by Alfred A. Knopf
jacket art © 2009, published by Random House
photo by Joanne Dugan
jacket art © 2007 by Ericka O’Rourke, published by Random House Inc.
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