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Cognotes • Page 13 Seattle — ALA Midwinter Meeting Highlights 2013 Amelia Bloomer List Highlights Feminist Books for Young Readers T he Amelia Bloomer Project, a product of the ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table’s (SRRT) Feminist Taskforce, announced the 2013 Amelia Bloomer List at ALA’s Midwinter Meeting in Seattle. The bibliography consists of well-written and illustrated books with significant feminist content, intended for young readers from birth to 18-yearold. This year’s list includes more than 50 titles published between July 1, 2011 and December 31, 2012. Named for Amelia Bloomer, a pioneering 19th century newspaper editor, feminist thinker, public speaker, and suffragist, the list features books about girls and women that spur the imagination while confronting traditional female stereotypes. The bibliography is intended to aid children and teens in selecting high-quality books released over the past 18 months and may be used for a recommended reading list for youth and those who interact with them and as a collection development or reader’s advisory tool for interested librarians. The Top 10 titles of the 2013 Amelia Bloomer List include: Bartels, Peggielene and Eleanor Herman. King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village. 2012. Doubleday, (978-0-3855-3432-1). Gevinson, Tavi (Editor). Rookie Yearbook One. 2012. Drawn and Quarterly, (978-1-7704-6112-3). Kulling, Monica. In the Bag! Marga- ret Knight Wraps It Up. Illus. by David Parkins. 2011. Unpaged. Tundra Books, (978-1-7704-9239-4). Ledbetter, Lilly with Lanier Scott Isom. Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond. 2012. 279p. Crown Archetype, (978-0-3078-8792-4). Malaspina, Ann. Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President. Illus. by Steve James. 2012. Unpaged. Albert Whitman & Co., (978-0-8075-3188-4). McCall, Guadalupe Garcia. Summer of the Mariposas. 2012. 355p. Tu Books, (978-1-6006-0900-8). Womanthology: Heroic. Illus. by Various. March 2012. 321p. IDW Publishing, (978-1-6137-7147-1). Warren, Sarah E. Dolores Huerta: A Hero to Migrant Workers. Illus. by Robert Casilla. 2012. Unpaged. Marshall Cavendish Children, (978-0-7614-6107-4). Wein, Elizabeth. Code Name Verity. 2012. 343p. Hyperion, (978-0-54762834-9). Zeilinger, Julie. A Little F’d Up: Why Feminism Is Not a Dirty Word. 2012. 249p. Seal Press, (978-1-5800-5371-6). To view the complete annotated list, please visit the Amelia Bloomer Project blog, http://ameliabloomer.wordpress. com/ The ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) is a unit within the American Library Association. It works to make ALA more democratic and to establish progressive priorities not only for the Association, but also for the entire profession. SRRT’s main web site is hosted at http://libr.org/SRRT. Youth Media Awards Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie and published by Carolrhoda Lab, an imprint of Carolrhoda Books, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award: I, Too, Am America, illustrated by Bryan Collier, is the King Illustrator Book winner. The book is written by Langston Hughes and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division. Three King Illustrator Honor Books were selected: H. O. R. S. E., illustrated and written by Christopher Myers, and published by Egmont USA; Ellen’s Broom, illustrated by Daniel Minter, written by Kelly Starling Lyons and published by G. P Putnam’s Sons, a . division of Penguin Young Readers Group; and I Have a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Martin Luther King, Jr. and published by Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults: In Darkness, written by Nick Lake, is the 2013 Printz Award winner. The book is published by Bloomsbury Books for Young Readers. Four Printz Honor Books also were named: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division; Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein, published by Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group; Dodger, by Terry Pratchett, published by HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers; The White Bicycle, by Beverley Brenna, published by Red Deer Press. Schneider Family Book Award for books that embody an artistic expression of the disability experience: Back to Front and Upside Down! written and illustrated by Claire Alexander and published by Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., wins the award for children ages 0 to 10. A Dog Called Homeless, written by Sarah Lean and published by Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, is the winner of the middle-school (ages 11-13) award. The teen (ages 13-18) award winner is Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am, written by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division. Alex Awards for the 10 best adult books that appeal to teen audiences: Caring is Creepy, by David Zimmerman, published by Soho Press, Inc. Girlchild, by Tupelo Hassman, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Juvenile in Justice, by Richard Ross, published by Richard Ross. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, by Robin Sloan, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. My Friend Dahmer, by Derf Backderf, published by Abrams ComicArts, an imprint of Abrams One Shot at Forever, by Chris Ballard, published by Hyperion. Pure, by Julianna Baggott, published by Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The Round House, by Louise Erdrich, published by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Tell the Wolves I’m Home, by Carol Rifka Brunt, published by Dial Press, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in children’s video: Katja Torneman, producer of “Anna, Emma and the Condors,” is the Carnegie Medal winner. Laura Ingalls Wilder Award 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. The 2013 winner is Katherine Paterson. Paterson was born in China in 1932 to missionary parents and grew up in the American South, moving 18 times before she was 18. After graduating from King College in Bristol, Tennessee, she herself became a missionary in Japan. She returned to the U.S. to attend the Union Theological Seminary in New York, where she met and married John Paterson, a Presbyterian minister. Her first book, The Sign of the Chrysanthemum, was published in 1973. Katherine Paterson currently lives in Barre, Vermont. Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement: Demetria Tucker is the 2013 recipient. Tucker has served as youth services coordinator within the Roanoke (Va.) Public Library System and library media specialist at the Forest Park Elementary School, where she was selected 2007 Teacher of the Year. As family and youth services librarian for the Pearl Bailey Library, a branch of the Newport News (Va.) Public Library System, Tucker now coordinates a youth leadership program, a teen urban literature club and many other programs that support the youth of her community. » from page 1 Three Times Lucky, by Sheila Turnage and published by Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group. Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children: This Is Not My Hat, illustrated and written by Jon Klassen, is the 2013 Caldecott Medal winner. The book is published by Candlewick Press. Five Caldecott Honor Books also were named: Creepy Carrots! illustrated by Peter Brown, written by Aaron Reynolds and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division; Extra Yarn, illustrated by Jon Klassen, written by Mac Barnett and published by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers; Green, illustrated and written by Laura Vaccaro Seeger and published by Neal Porter Books, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press; One Cool Friend, illustrated by David Small, written by Toni Buzzeo and published by Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group; Sleep Like a Tiger, illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski, written by Mary Logue and published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award recognizing an African American author and illustrator of outstanding books for children and young adults: Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America, written by Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrated by Brian Pinkney is the King Author Book winner. The book is published by Disney/Jump at the Sun Books, an imprint of Disney Book Group. Two King Author Honor Books were selected: Each Kindness, by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by E. B. Lewis and published by Nancy Paulsen Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group; and No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of the Life and Work of Lewis Michaux, Harlem Bookseller, by Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults: Tamora Pierce is the 2013 Edwards Award winner. Pierce was born in rural Western Pennsylvania in 1954. She knew from a young age she liked stories and writing, and in 1983, she published her first book, Song of the Lioness. She continues to write and even record her own audiobooks. She currently lives with her husband (spouse-creature) and a myriad of animals in Syracuse, New York. May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award recognizing an author, critic, librarian, historian or teacher of children’s literature, who then presents a lecture at a winning host site. Andrea Davis Pinkney will deliver the 2014 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture. Andrea Davis Pinkney is a New York Times best-selling writer of more than 20 books for children and young adults including picture books, novels and nonfiction. During the course of her career, Pinkney has launched many high-profile publishing » see page 14 http://www.ameliabloomer.wordpress.com http://www.ameliabloomer.wordpress.com http://www.libr.org/SRRT

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