Award Winner for Lori J Mai Award - 3 views
Dear Mary Bahr, Congratulations! Your book, If Nathan Were Here was chosen as the award winner of the "Lori J Mai Award for Children's Literature about Dealing with Serious Life Issues." The awa...
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The Lori J Mai award for Children's Literature about Dealing with Serious Life Issues - 2 views
The Lori J Mai award for Children's Literature about Dealing with Serious Life Issues will be awarded to a book that will best help children to learn and understand about serious life issues. The b...
And The Award Goes To..... Is A Worry Worrying You? By Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz - 0 views
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hheld1 on 13 Feb 08Is a Worry Worrying You? is about worrying. This book gives examples as to what worries are and how you can get rid of them. It tells the readers exactly what a worry is. The book talks about worries as being invisible and unable to find. This book deals with a very serious issue; however, the book is actually presented in a humorous way. Is a Worry Worrying You? would be a great book to read in a classroom because a lot of kids are constantly worried about something or another (especially the things mentioned in the book). Remember, as the book says, just don't worry! This book is available through the Penn State Libraries. -
carlivs on 17 Mar 08I am pleased to present the Jason Baker Award for children's books portraying children effectively dealing with emotions and feelings to Ferida Wolff and Harriet May Savitz for Is A Worry Worrying You? My Name is Carli Van Scyoc and I am currently a student a Penn State University. As part of the language and literacy curriculum for the elementary education program, we had an assignment to create an award for a category that was important. Then we were to choose a book from various student nominations that best fits our award description. I am very happy to say that this book was perfect. I am interested in pursuing a career in counceling so I used this oppurtunity to read many books that taught children how to deal with their unfamiliar emotions and understand that it is completely normal. I absolutely love this book and would offer it to any child who finds themselves in a similar situation. Thank you for writting just a great book.
Rolling Along, The Story of Taylor and His Wheelchair, by Jamee Riggio Heelan - 0 views
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"Rolling Along" is a story about a young boy named Taylor who was born with cerebral palsy, causing him to have trouble walking. Taylor is a bright optimistic boy. In this story we follow him through his daily schedule and experience the excitement of his first wheelchair. This book promotes the importance for accomodations in public places for people who use wheelchairs, shows that being disabled is not a downfall in life, and that anything is possible with a little love, understanding, and compassion. "Rolling Along" is a great educational book for young readers. Most children have never had much experience with people who are "different" from the everyday child, and a book like this would help them understand and accept those who may have a disability.
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"Rolling Along" is a story about a young boy named Taylor who was born with cerebral palsy, causing him to have trouble walking. Taylor is a bright optimistic boy. In this story we follow him through his daily schedule and experience the excitement of his first wheelchair. This book promotes the importance for accomodations in public places for people who use wheelchairs, shows that being disabled is not a downfall in life, and that anything is possible with a little love, understanding, and compassion. "Rolling Along" is a great educational book for young readers. Most children have never had much experience with people who are "different" from the everyday child, and a book like this would help them understand and accept those who may have a disability.
The Aiden Jacob Lewis Award for excellence in Children's Literature about Children who ... - 5 views
Looks great, Tania. Thank you -- Kirstin tml5025 wrote: > The Aiden Jacob Lewis award for excellence in Children's Literature about Children who grow up in a single parent home will be awarded to t...
The Anthony Baney Award for excelling in the demonstration of children overcoming reten... - 5 views
The Anthony Baney Award for excelling in the demonstration of children overcoming retention and/or struggling to learn to read and write. Wolf says that "a child will lean on the language of an aut...
The ToryKane Award for excellence in children's literature on freedom and oppression - 6 views
The ToryKane Award for excellence in children's literature on freedom and oppression will be awarded to a children's book that helps children better understand opposing viewpoints, historical relev...
Responding to your classmates with nominations - 2 views
First, read your classmates' calls for nominations. Pay close attention to the requirements of each award. Then, head for a children's library or a book store with a good collection of children's b...
Winner of the Special Kids Award: Susan Laughs by Jeanne Willis - 0 views
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Courtney Sherkel 113 North 14th Avenue Altoona, PA 16601 <!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>CREATEDATE<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>\@ "MMMM d, yyyy"<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>\* MERGEFORMAT <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]-->March 6, 2008<!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--> Mary Hoffman c/o Pat White Rogers, Coleridge and White
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W11 1JN Dear Ms. Mary Hoffman: Congratulations! I am pleased to announce that your book, Amazing Grace, has been chosen as the recipient of The Break-A-Leg Award for Excellence in Children's Literature about Theater, Acting, Singing, and/or Dancing. This award was created in my children's literature education class at <st1:PlaceName w:st= -
This book is about a girl named Susan. Susan is being described as doing activities such as laughing, swimming, running, etc...Then the last page of the book has Susan sitting in a wheelchair. This book describes the messge that special needs children can do the same activities as the normal children. Ashley Cribbs 124 Indiana Avenue Vandergrift, Pa 15690 aac5024@psu.edu March 4, 2008 Attention: Mrs. Jeanne Willis Books for Young Readers
Henry Holt and Company
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010 Dear Mrs. Willis: My name is Ashley Cribbs and I am a student at Penn State Altoona majoring in elementary education. I am writing to inform you that your book, "Susan Laughs," has won the Special Kids Award for Children Literature. It is a book about children who have special needs or exceptionalities. This award was created in my Language and Literacy Education block. I was to create an award for any topic in children literature. Then, the class had to nominate books for each of the awards that each student created. Once completed, the nominee of the award had to choose only one book that the student felt met the requirements of the award. That is how I chose your book for my Special Kids Award. I have dedicated my award to you because I felt that "Susan Laughs" is an excellent way to portray the message that even though children may have special
Small Beauties: The Journey of Darcy Heart O'Hara by Elvira Woodruff - 0 views
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"Small Beauties" is a story about a girl named Darcy Heart O'Hare who notices the small beauties of nature. Darcy and her family live in Ireland on a farm. When the family fails to be able to pay the rent, they are kicked out of their home and forced to cross the ocean to America. Only Darcy holds the key to their new happiness through the collecting of her small beauties. This book has many strengths. First, it is a historical non-fiction book that allows readers to see what may have really happened during that time period. At the back of the book is also a true recalling of the time of the famine, which includes historical facts and information that relate to real stories like Woodruff's portrayal. The book is also beautifully illustrated. The illustrations just bring the story to life and keep the reader wanting more. "Small Beauties" is a perfect book to be shared with children in one's classroom. It has potential for connection to a lesson that deals with immigration and it's historical aspects.It is an amazing book that carries the potential for great discussion following it's reading.
Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson - 0 views
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Bread and Roses, Too by Katherine Paterson is an excellent book. This book is about a families struggle through a workers strike. Rosa, one of the main characters, lives at home with her mother, sister, baby brother and another immigrant family. Bread and Roses,Too portrays her emotions about the strike and her families involvement. It also tells the story of a homeless boy who works in the mill where the workers are striking. Both these children leave to go to Vermont until the strike is over. There they learn alot about life and family. This book well suites the award becase both of the main characters are from single-parent homes and this issue is addressed many times. A weakness of the book is that children may not relate to that specific issue becasue there iare so many other issues being addressed. Overall, this is a great book for the Aiden Jacob Lewis award because it portrays many single-parent families and all the families are not the sterotypical perfect family.
Winner of the Aiden Jacob Lews Award! "Do I have a Daddy?" By Jeanne Warren Lindsay - 0 views
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This book is a picture book for children about dealing with the absence of a father whether it's due to a death, not knowing, or absent fathers. The story is about a boy who gets picked on about not having a father and the mother explains the many reasons why a dad might not be present. The book also includes a section for teenage parents that consists of quotes, ideas, and how other single-parents dealt with this situation. This book would be a good book to send home to a single-parent family to help the child understand their family situation.
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Dear Ms. Lindsay, My name is Tania Lewis, and I am an Elementary Education major at Penn State- Altoona in Pennsylvania, and I am writing to you today to inform you that you have won the Aiden Jacob Lewis Award for excellence in Children's Literature about children who grow up in a single parent home for your story, "Do I Have a Daddy?" The criteria for this award is that the book should display excellence in the fact that it helps children understand that growing up in a single parent home isn't always as been as it may sometimes seem, and that they are not alone and are not the only child who lives in homes just like they do.This award was created in my LLED 402 class. This class is solely based on analyzing, reading, and working with all types of children's literature. Every student in the class was asked to create an award about something that means a lot to them and also name it after someone special. This award that I created is named after my three month old son, Aiden, and the reason for the category is because I am a single mother and I worry sometimes about questions my son will ask me when he gets older, so I thought if I had books to help him understand, that it wouldn't be as hard. Each student, after creating an award, had to nominate books for their classmate's awards. Once done, we got to pick the winning book, and had an award ceremony for the nominators of the books. I chose your book for many different reasons. I chose it because when Erik's mother is faced with the question, "Do I have a Daddy?" she is very positive and honest with him, thinking about his feelings and saying that not all children liv
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett - 0 views
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A beloved classic of children's literature, The Secret Garden, tells an inspirational tale of transformation and empowerment. Mary Lennox, a sickly and contrary little girl, is orphaned to dim prospects in a gloomy English manor - her only friend is a bed-ridden boy named Colin whose prospects may be dimmer than hers. But when Mary finds the key to a Secret Garden, the magical powers of transformation fall within her reach. This stories strength is that it givs great confidence to chidren with dissabilities and is a great portrayal of what a child with a special need goes through. From a teachers point of view, I think it would be a great choice of a chapter book to read because it can teach children a good deal of information. This book is available at Barnes&Noble. Enjoy (;
Tuesday by David Wiesner - 0 views
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In Tuesday, Wiesner takes you on a frogs nighttime journey. Starting Tuesday evening the frogs take off from on their lilly pads from the pond where they live. By 11:21 they are soaring past peoples windows and right through a sleeping womans living room. At 4:38 they harras a neighborhood dog playing in the yard. The story then ends with curious detectives trying to solve last night mystery and the readers trying to decide what will happen next Tuesday night. Those who do not have an imagination may not enjoy this book but those who do will surely fall in love with it. The reader gets to tell the story the way they want to which encourages imagination and helps to develope literature interprtation skills. The author's illustrations really make this book, literally.
When Marian Sang: Marian Anderson, by Pam Munoz Ryan - 0 views
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This beautiful picture book from Pamela Munoz Ryan describes the life of Marian Anderson, one of this century's most celebrated singers. This book could be inspirational for a child who may have obstacles to success, whether the obstacles be racism, sexism, or classism. Because Marian is recognized for her talent and because she is willing to work hard and take risks, she finds many opportunities to share her talents with others. Because she is strong enough to stand firm against racism, she finds a larger audience than she could have ever imagined.
The Biggest Nose; Kathy Caple - 0 views
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This story is about an elephant who is told by a hippo that she has a big nose. She becomes self conscious and ties her nose in a knot to make it smaller. She decides that looks silly. She finally gets the knot out, and she is happy with her nose. When she goes back to school and they tease her, she points out that she may have the biggest nose but the hippo has the biggest mouth, the alligator has the biggest tail, and the rabbit has the biggest feet. I think this is a great story of how life is tough. She isn't making fun of the others, she is just pointing out that no one is perfect. It is a good lesson for children to learn. It would make them see that they shouldn't make fun of others,
The Kayla Davis award for excellence in putting a different spin on a traditional fairy... - 4 views
This award will be given to a children's book that switches up the story or the roles of the characters in a traditional fairy tale. These type of books are often referred to as fractured fairy ta...
Winner of the Bernard D. Carroll Award - 19 views
Dear Heinz Janish Congratulations! Your children's book, "Heave Ho!" is being awarded the Bernard D. Carroll Award for Teamwork and Sportsmanship. This award was created by me, Taryn Carroll, for...
List of existing children's literature awards - 11 views
Aesop Prize ALSC Awards and Notables American Academy of Poets Americas Award Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature Arizona Young Readers' Award Arkansas Charlie May Simon and Diamond ...
Call for nominations: The Sha-Narah award for literature about adolescent popularity - 2 views
Call for nominations: The Sha-Narah award for literature about adolescent popularity The Sha-Narah award for excellence in literature about adolescent popularity seeks nominations for literature b...
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