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"Children's Book Awards"
=**Award:** Newbery Medal= =**Given for:** The most distinguished contribution to American literature for children published in the United States in the preceeding year. Recipient must be a cititizen or resident of the United States.= =**Sponsoring Organization:** American Library Association= =**Time of year awarded:** January/February at the American Library Association's MidWinter Meeting= =**Types of books considered:** The Newbery Medal is given to one distinguished book annually. The book can be fiction, non-fiction, or poetry, but it must be original. Reprints and compilations don't qualify.= =**Decision making process:** Each year ALA member librarians review all eligible books printed the previous year, and select winners based on the following criteria:= =**History of the award:** The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British book seller John Newbery. Frederic G. Melcher proposed his idea for the Newbery Medal to the Children's Librarians' Section of the American Library Association on June 21, 1921. The idea was accepted with enthusiasm and approved in 1922.= = = =**Award:** Caldecott Medal= =**Given for:** A medal presented annually to the illustrator of the most distinguished American picture book for children published in the United States in the preceding year. The recipient must be a citizen or resident of the United States.= =**Sponsoring Organization:** American Library Association= =**Time of year awarded:** January/February at the American Library Association's MidWinter Meeting= =**Types of books considered:** The book must be published in English in the United States during the preceding year. The illustrations must be original work. The artist must be a citizen or resident of the United States. The book must be considered for the artistic technique employed; pictorial interpretation of story; appropriateness of style of illustration to the story; delineation of plot, theme, characters, setting, mood, or information through the pictures; and recognition of a child audience. The book must display respect for children's understandings, abilities, and appreciations. The book must be a self-contained entity, not dependent on other media for its enjoyment.= =**Decision making process:** The committee that decides on the Caldecott Award winner comprises fifteen members. Eight are elected by the entire ALSC membership and seven, including the chairperson, are appointed by the ALSC President.= =**History of the award:** The award was established in 1938. The award is named for Randolph Caldecott, a nineteenth-century English illustrator. Rene Paul Chambellon designed the Medal in 1937. The obverse scene is derived from Randolph Caldecott's front cover illustration for The Diverting History of John Gilpin (based on a 1782 poem by William Cowper), in which Gilpin is astride a runaway horse. The reverse is based on "Four and twenty blackbirds bak'd in a pie", one of Caldecott's illustrations for the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence".= = = =**Award:** Coretta Scott King Award= =**Given for:** Presented annually to an African American author and an African American illustrator for an outstandingly inspirational and educational contribution published during the previous year.= =**Sponsoring Organization:** American Library Association= =**Time of year awarded:** Annually by the American Library Association= =**Types of books considered:** Books considered are those with African American authors and illustrators. They are considered to be outstanding contributions to children's and young adult literature that promote understanding and appreciation of the culture and contribution of all people to the realization of the American Dream. = =**Decision making process:** Awarded by members of the ALA.= =**History of the award:** The Coretta Scott King Award was established in 1969. The separate award for illustrator was added in 1979. It was designed to commemorate the life and work of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and to honor Mrs. Coretta Scott King for her courage and determination in continuing to work for peace and world brotherhood.= = = =**Award:** Mildred L. Batchelder Award= =**Given for:** Awarded for outstanding translated book for children. The award goes to the U.S. publisher responsible for the English-language edition of the work.= =**Sponsoring Organization:** American Library Association= =**Time of year awarded:** It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.= =**Types of books considered:** Books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States.= =**Decision making process:** Awarded by members of ALA.= =**History of the award:** This award honors Mildred L. Batchelder, a former executive director of the Association for Library Service to Children, and a believer in the importance of good books for children in translation from all parts of the world. The award, established in her honor in 1966, is a citation awarded to an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country, and subsequently translated into English and published in the United States. = = = =**Award:** Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal= =**Given for:** Honors an author or illustrator whose books are published in the U.S. and have made a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children.= =**Sponsoring Organization:** American Library Association= =**Time of year awarded:** Winners are announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting and receive the medal at the Annual Conference in June. Between 1960 and 1980, the Wilder Award was given every five years. From 1980 to 2001, it was awarded every three years. Beginning in 2001, it has been awarded every two years.= =**Types of books considered:** Authors and their books written for children up to age fourteen.= =**Decision making process:** Awarded by a committee based on the following criteria:= =**History of the award:** The Laura Ingalls Wilder Award was first given to its namesake in 1954. The award, a bronze medal, honors an author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children. Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in Wisconsin. She became an elementary school teacher, married, and moved to Mansfield, MO, in 1894, where she lived until her death at age 90. Wilder's first book, The Little House in the Big Woods (1932), was published when she was 65. It began the story of five-year-old Laura and her family in the Wisconsin woods. Her other publications include Farmer Boy (1933), Little House on the Prairie (1935), On the Banks of Plum Creek (1937), and By the Shores of Silver Lake (1939). Wilder wrote about home and the family primarily to entertain. She was interested in providing her young readers with information on how life was lived by their ancestors. Wilder's books were not about the country's leaders; they were about the country's people.=
 * = Interpretation of the theme or concept =
 * = Presentation of information including accuracy, clarity, and organization =
 * = Development of a plot =
 * = Delineation of characters =
 * = Delineation of setting =
 * = Appropriateness of style =
 * ==The medal may be awarded to an author or illustrator including co-authors or co-illustrators, and persons who both write and illustrate. The person may be nominated posthumously.==
 * ==Some portion of the nominee's active career in books for children must have occurred in the twenty-five years prior to nomination.==
 * ==Citizenship or residence of the potential nominee is not to be considered.==
 * ==The nominee's work must be published in the United States but this does not mean that the first publication had to be in the United States. It means that books by the nominee have been published in the United States, and it is those books which are to be considered in the nomination process.==
 * ==At least some of the books by the potential nominee must have been available to children for at least ten years.==
 * ==The books, by their nature or number, occupy an important place in literature for American children, and children have read the books, and the books continue to be requested and read by children.==
 * ==The committee is to direct its attention only to the part of the nominee's total work, which is books for children (up to and including age fourteen).==

=**Award:** Margaret A. Edwards Award for Outstanding Literature For Young Adults= =**Given for:** Awarded to an author for lifetime achievement in writing for teenagers. It is given to an author whose work helps teenagers to better understand themselves and their world.= =**Sponsoring Organization:** School Library Journal Magazine= =**Time of year awarded:** Awarded annually.= =**Types of books considered:** Books where the author's work is helping adolescents become aware of themselves and addressing questions about their role and importance in relationships, society, and in the world.= =**Decision making process:** A committe of five makes the decision for this award. The committee making its selection of nominees must be aware of the entire range of books for young adults and will take into account the following:= =**History of the award:**The Margaret A. Edwards Award, established in 1988, honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. It was named for Margaret A. Edwards, an administrator of young adult programs at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore for over thirty years. Margaret A. Edwards spent her professional life bringing books and young adults together, pioneering outreach services for teenagers, and establishing a stringent training program designed especially for librarians beginning their work with adolescents.= = = =**Award:** Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards= =**Given for:** Winners are selected in three categories: Picture Book, Fiction and Poetry, and Nonfiction. Two Honor Books may be named in each category. On occasion, a book will receive a special citation for its high quality and overall creative excellence. The winning titles must be published in the United States but they may be written or illustrated by citizens of any country.= =**Sponsoring Organization:** The Boston Globe and The Horn Book Magazine= =**Time of year awarded:** Awarded annually (since 1967) in the Fall at the New England Library Association Conference= =**Types of books considered:** Picture books, fiction and poetry books, and nonfiction books= =**Decision making process:** The awards are chosen by an independent panel of three judges who are annually appointed by the Editor of the Horn Book.= =**History of the award:** The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were established in 1967. One of the things that makes this list different from the Newbery and Caldecott lists is that books published in the U.S. but written by non-Americans are eligible. Since 1976, it has also included an award for nonfiction. The Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards are among the most prestigious honors in the field of children’s and young adult literature.= = = =**Award:** The Christopher Awards= =**Given for:** Presented to books "which affirm the highest values of the human spirit."= =**Sponsoring Organization:** It is given by The Christophers, a Christian organization founded in 1945 by the Maryknoll priest James Keller.= =**Time of year awarded:** Presented each February= =**Types of books considered:** The Christopher Awards consider the storytellers who, whether using fact or fiction, tell us something about the human condition: **writers and illustrators** who craft words and images into a clear, cohesive vision.= =**Decision making process:** Publishers are asked to submit titles and works that they believe to be award-worthy. Industry professionals and Christopher staff members make the final selections based on: Significant degree of public acceptance and affirmation of the highest values of the human spirit.= =**History of the award:**The Christopher Awards began in 1949; the Books for Young People category was added in 1970. The Christopher Award is a bronze medallion, four inches in diameter. A stylized candle overprinted with the ancient Chinese proverb and Christopher credo—“Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness”—appears on one side. On the reverse side: an image representing the Greek word //Christophoros//, meaning “bearer of Christ.”= = = =**Award:** The Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children= =**Given for:** The most outstanding nonfiction book **for children**.= =**Sponsoring Organization:** National Council of Teachers of English (U.S.)= =**Time of year awarded:** Awarded annually.= =**Types of books considered:** Nonfiction and informational books for children.= =**Decision making process:** **Each nomination should meet the following literary criteria:**=
 * ==Does the book(s) help adolescents to become aware of themselves and to answer their questions about their role and importance in relationships, society and in the world?==
 * ==Is the book(s) of acceptable literary quality?==
 * ==Does the book(s) satisfy the curiosity of young adults and yet help them thoughtfully to build a philosophy of life?==
 * ==Is the book(s) currently popular with a wide range of young adults in many different parts of the country?==
 * ==Do the book(s) serve as a "window to the world" for young adults?==

** Design **—attractive, readable, illustrations complement text, placement of illustrative material appropriate and complementary, appropriate media, format, type
==** Style **—writing is interesting, stimulating, reveals author's enthusiasm for subject; curiosity and wonder encouraged, appropriate terminology, rich language In addition, each nomination should be useful in classroom teaching grades K-8, should encourage thinking and more reading, model exemplary expository writing and research skills, share interesting and timely subject matter, and appeal to a wide range of ages.== =**History of the award:** Established in 1990 to promote and recognize excellence in nonfiction writing. The award is named in commemoration of the book //Orbis Pictus (The World in Pictures)// by Johann Comenius. It was originally published in 1657, and is considered to be the first informational book written specifically for children.= = = =**Award:** The Pura Belpre Award= =**Given for:** Books by authors and illustrators whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.= =**Sponsoring Organization:** ALSC & REFORMA= =**Time of year awarded:** Awarded annually.= =**Types of books considered:** Books written and illustrated by Latino/Latina authors and illustrators.= =**Decision making process:** A commitee comprised of seven members from ALSC & REFORMA decides who receives this award.= =**History of the award:** The award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award, established in 1996, is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. It is co-sponsored by the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and REFORMA, the National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking, an ALA affiliate.=

=__**Semester Project**__=


 * National Standards (NCTE)**

1) Students read a wide range of print and non-print texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world; to acquire new information; to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace; and for personal fulfillment. Among these texts are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works.

3) Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).

**__Alabama Course of Study English Language Arts 5th Grade (2007) __** 2.) Use a range of strategies, including drawing conclusions such as opinions about characters based on their actions and summarizing passages, to comprehend fifth-grade recreational reading materials in a variety of genres. 4.) Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using text features to gain meaning, summarizing passages, and drawing conclusions, to comprehend fifth-grade informational and functional reading materials. 11.) Use search strategies in the research process to identify reliable current resources and computer technology to locate information. 13.) Apply strategies of a skillful listener, including maintaining eye contact, attending to the listening task, and assigning meaning to the message.