Jane Addams Children's Book Award
| Jane Addams Children's Book Award | |
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Seal of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award | |
| Awarded for | Excellence in children's literature promoting peace, social justice, world community and equality |
| Location | New York City |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Jane Addams Peace Association |
| First awarded | 1953 |
| Official website | http://www.janeaddamspeace.org/ |
The Jane Addams Children's Book Award is given annually to a children's book published the preceding year that advances the causes of peace and social equality. The awards have been presented annually since 1953. They were previously given jointly by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the Jane Addams Peace Association,[1] but are now presented solely by the Jane Addams Peace Association.
History
The Jane Addams Children's Book Award was originally awarded to one book per year without categories. A Picture Book category was added in 1993; the award is currently given to two books annually, one for older children and one for younger children. In 2003, the time of year the award is given changed from September, honoring Jane Addams' birthday, to April, honoring the WILPF's birthday.
In the sixty-plus years of the award’s history, there has been one public controversy over the selection of its winner. In 1970, the award was given to The Cay by Theodore Taylor, a book which became highly criticized in the years since its publication. In 1974, the current award chair, who was not the chair at the time the award was given to The Cay, publicly stated that she thought it was a mistake to have named The Cay an Addams Award winner.[2] In response, Taylor, who saw the work as "a subtle plea for better race relations and more understanding,"[3] returned the Award "by choice, not in anger, but with troubling questions."[4] In later years, Taylor reported that the Award had been rescinded.[5] Even though The Cay remains on the list of Addams Award winners, Taylor's claim is widely thought to be true and has become a part of reading and discussing the book with young people today.[6]
Jane Addams Children's Book Award recipients
| Year | Category | Book | Author | Illustrator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Book for Older Children | The Girl From the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the Civil Rights Movement | Teri Kanefield | |
| 2015 | Book for Younger Children | Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation | Duncan Tonatiuh | |
| 2014 | Book for Older Children | Sugar | Jewell Parker Rhodes | |
| 2014 | Book for Younger Children | Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909 | Michelle Markel | Melissa Sweet |
| 2013 | Book for Older Children | We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March | Cynthia Levinson | |
| 2013 | Book for Younger Children | Each Kindness | Jacqueline Woodson | E. B. Lewis |
| 2012 | Book for Older Children | Sylvia & Aki | Winifred Conkling | |
| 2012 | Book for Younger Children | The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families | Susan L. Roth and Cindy Trumbore | Susan L. Roth |
| 2011 | Book for Older Children | A Long Walk to Water | Linda Sue Park | |
| 2011 | Book for Younger Children | Emma’s Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty | Linda Glaser | Claire A. Nivola |
| 2010 | Book for Older Children | Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary | Elizabeth Partridge | |
| 2010 | Book for Younger Children | Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan | Jeanette Winter | Jeanette Winter |
| 2009 | Book for Older Children | The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom | Margarita Engle | |
| 2009 | Book for Younger Children | Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai | Claire A. Nivola | Claire A. Nivola |
| 2008 | Book for Older Children | We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin | Larry Dane Brimner | |
| 2008 | Book for Younger Children | The Escape of Oney Judge: Martha Washington’s Slave Finds Freedom | Emily Arnold McCully | Emily Arnold McCully |
| 2007 | Book for Older Children | Weedflower | Cynthia Kadohata | |
| 2007 | Book for Younger Children | A Place Where Sunflowers Grow | Amy Lee-Tai | Felicia Hoshino |
| 2006 | Book for Older Children | Let Me Play: The Story of Title IX, the Law that Changed the Future of Girls in America | Karen Blumenthal | |
| 2006 | Book for Younger Children | Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights | James Haskins | Benny Andrews |
| 2005 | Book for Older Children | With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight for a Woman's Right to Vote | Ann Bausum | |
| 2005 | Book for Younger Children | Sélavi, That is Life: A Haitian Story of Hope | Youme Landowne | Youme Landowne |
| 2004 | Book for Older Children | Out of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope | Beverley Naidoo | |
| 2004 | Picture Book | Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez | Kathleen Krull | Yuyi Morales |
| 2004 | Special Commendation | The Breadwinner Trilogy | Deborah Ellis | |
| 2003 | Book for Older Children | Parvana's Journey | Deborah Ellis | |
| 2003 | Picture Book | Patrol: An American Soldier in Vietnam | Walter Dean Myers | Ann Grifalconi |
| 2002 | Book for Older Children | The Other Side of Truth | Beverley Naidoo | |
| 2002 | Picture Book | Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Doreen Rappaport | Bryan Collier |
| 2001 | Book for Older Children | Esperanza Rising | Pam Muñoz Ryan | |
| 2001 | Picture Book | The Composition | Antonio Skármeta | Alfonso Ruano |
| 2000 | Book for Older Children | Through My Eyes | Ruby Bridges | |
| 2000 | Picture Book | Molly Bannaky | Alice McGill | Chris K. Soentpiet |
| 1999 | Book for Older Children | Bat 6 | Virginia Euwer Wolff | |
| 1999 | Picture Book | Painted Words / Spoken Memories: Marianthe's Story | Aliki Brandenberg | Aliki Brandenberg |
| 1998 | Book for Older Children | Habibi | Naomi Shihab Nye | |
| 1998 | Picture Book | Seven Brave Women | Betsy Hearne | Bethanne Andersen |
| 1997 | Book for Older Children: | Growing Up In Coal County | Susan Campbell Bartoletti | |
| 1997 | Picture Book | Wilma Unlimited | Kathleen Krull | David Diaz |
| 1996 | Book for Older Children | The Well | Mildred D. Taylor | |
| 1996 | Picture Book | No award given | ||
| 1996 | Special Commendation | The Middle Passage | Tom Feelings | |
| 1995 | Book for Older Children | Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor | Russell Freedman | |
| 1995 | Picture Book | Sitti's Secrets | Naomi Shihab Nye | Nancy Carpenter |
| 1994 | Book for Older Children | Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories | Ellen Levine | |
| 1994 | Picture Book | This Land Is My Land | George Littlechild | George Littlechild |
| 1993 | Book for Older Children | A Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti | Frances Temple | |
| 1993 | Picture Book | Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky | Faith Ringgold | Faith Ringgold |
| 1992 | Mean Soup | Betsy Everitt | ||
| 1991 | The Big Book for Peace | Ann Durell and Marilyn Sachs | ||
| 1990 | A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter | Patricia and Fredrick McKissack | ||
| 1989 | (tie) Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave | Virginia Hamilton | ||
| 1989 | (tie) Looking Out | Victoria Boutis | ||
| 1988 | Waiting for the Rain: A Novel of South Africa | Sheila Gordon | ||
| 1987 | Nobody Wants a Nuclear War | Judith Vigna | ||
| 1986 | Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers | Milton Meltzer | ||
| 1985 | The Milk Makers | Gail Gibbons | ||
| 1984 | Rain of Fire | Marion Dane Bauer | ||
| 1983 | Ten Sleepy Sheep | Holly Keller | ||
| 1983 | Special Recognition | All the Colors of the Race | Arnold Adoff | |
| 1983 | Special Recognition | Children as Teachers of Peace | Our Children | |
| 1982 | A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind | Athena V. Lord | ||
| 1981 | First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin | Florence Meiman White | ||
| 1980 | The Road from Home | David Kherdian | ||
| 1980 | Special Recognition | Natural History | M. B. Goffstein | |
| 1979 | Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History through Indian Art | Jamake Highwater | ||
| 1978 | Child of the Owl | Laurence Yep | ||
| 1978 | Special Recognition | Amifika | Lucille Clifton | |
| 1978 | Special Recognition | The Wheel of King Asoka | Ashok Davar | |
| 1977 | Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust | Milton Meltzer | ||
| 1976 | Paul Robeson | Eloise Greenfield | ||
| 1975 | The Princess and the Admiral | Charlotte Pomerantz | ||
| 1974 | Nilda | Nicholasa Mohr | ||
| 1973 | The Riddle of Racism | S. Carl Hirsch | ||
| 1972 | The Tamarack Tree | Betty Underwood | ||
| 1971 | Jane Addams: Pioneer of Social Justice | Cornelia Meigs | ||
| 1970 | The Cay | Theodore Taylor | ||
| 1969 | The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia | Esther Hautzig | ||
| 1968 | Little Fishes | Erik Christian Haugaard | ||
| 1967 | Queenie Peavy | Robert Burch | ||
| 1966 | Berries Goodman | Emily Cheney Neville | ||
| 1965 | Meeting with a Stranger | Duane Bradley | ||
| 1964 | Profiles in Courage: Young Readers Memorial Edition | John F. Kennedy | ||
| 1963 | The Monkey and the Wild, Wild Wind | Ryerson Johnson | ||
| 1962 | The Road to Agra | Aimee Sommerfelt | ||
| 1961 | What Then, Raman? | Shirley L. Arora | ||
| 1960 | Champions of Peace | Edith Patterson Meyer | ||
| 1959 | No award given | |||
| 1958 | The Perilous Road | William O. Steele | ||
| 1957 | Blue Mystery | Margot Benary-Isbert | ||
| 1956 | Story of the Negro | Arna Bontemps | ||
| 1955 | Rainbow Round the World | Elizabeth Yates | ||
| 1954 | Stick-in-the-Mud | Jean Ketchum | ||
| 1953 | People Are Important | Eva Knox Evans |
References
- ↑ Griffith, Susan C. (Fall 2004). "Imagining Social Justice and Peace in a World Community: The Jane Addams Children's Book Award". WILLA (The National Council of Teachers of English). Retrieved 2007-10-10.
- ↑ Griffith, S. C. (2013). The Jane Addams Children’s Book Award: Honoring Children’s Literature for Peace and Social Justice since 1953. Lanham, NJ: Scarecrow Press. p. 18.
- ↑ Miller, Stephen (2006-10-30). "Theodore Taylor, 85, Children's Novelist". New York Sun. Retrieved 2007-10-10.
- ↑ Taylor, T (1975). "In the Mailbag . . . to the Editor". Top of the News 31 (3): 284.
- ↑ Roginski, J.W. (1985). "Theodore Taylor". Behind the Covers: Interviews of Authors and Illustrators of Children’s Books. Littleton, CO: Libraries Unlimited. p. 212.
- ↑ Griffith, S. C. (2013). The Jane Addams Children’s Book Award: Honoring Children’s Literature for Peace and Social Justice since 1953. Lanham, NJ: Scarecrow Press. p. 19.
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