IRA, Jane Addams Awards Unveiled
Staff -- School Library Journal, 6/1/2003
Primary fiction award: Celeste Davidson Mannis for One Leaf Rides the Wind (Viking).
Primary nonfiction award: Nancy Andrews-Goebel for The Pot That Juan Built (Lee & Low).
Intermediate fiction award : Marlene Carvell for Who Will Tell My Brother? (Hyperion).
Intermediate nonfiction award: David J. Smith for If the World Were a Village (Kids Can Press).
Young adult fiction award: Chris Crowe for Mississippi Trial, 1955 (Penguin Putnam/Phyllis Fogelman Bks.).
Young adult nonfiction award: Duane Damon for Headin' for Better Times: The Arts of the Great Depression (Lerner).
The IRA Paul A. Witty Short Story Award: Patricia Baehr for "Blizzard," a story about New York's great blizzard of 1888, published in Cricket magazine (December 2002/January 2003).
The 2003 Jane Addams Children's Book awards, which honor books that most effectively promote the cause of peace, social justice, world community, and equality of the sexes, were announced April 28 in New York City. Here is a list of the winners:
Jane Addams Picture Book Award: Patrol : An American Soldier in Vietnam by Walter Dean Myers and illustrated by Ann Grifalconi (HarperCollins).
Honor Books in the Picture Book category: ¡si, se puede! Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in L.A. by Diana Cohn and illustrated by Francisco Delgado (Cinco Puntos Press) and The Village That Vanished by Ann Grifalconi and illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Dial).
Jane Addams Books for Older Children Award: Parvana's Journey by Barbara Ellis (Groundwood Books).
Honor Books for Older Children: The Same Stuff as Stars by Katherine Paterson (Clarion) and When My Name Was Keoko by Linda Sue Park (Clarion).
