Bank Street Honors Three Children’s Authors
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Laura B. Weiss -- School Library Journal, 3/31/2006
Children’s authors Deborah Wiles, Pamela Turner, and Paul Janeczko are winners of the Bank Street College of Education awards, which were handed out on March 16 in New York City. The winners of the Josette Frank Award for fiction, the Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for nonfiction, and the Claudia Lewis Award for poetry were selected by the Bank Street School’s Children’s Book Committee, comprised of librarians, teachers, authors, illustrators, and parents.
A group of 24 kids nationwide—ages 2 to 14—evaluate many of the books chosen for the awards and for Bank Street’s annual The Best Children’s Books of the Year. The Book Committee takes their views into account when making its final selections.
The winners are:
- Deborah Wiles, for Each Little Bird That sings (Josette Frank Award)
- Pamela Turner, for Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes (Flora Stieglitz Straus Award)
- Paul Janeczko, for A Kick In The Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms (Claudia Lewis Award).
