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 the author of a children's book that helps children understand that growing up in a single parent home isn't always as bad as it may sometimes seem, and that they are not the only one who lives in a home like they do. As Erma Bombeck says, "A family is a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing stuffy noses, colds, and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instance, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together." No matter the size or number of people in your family, a family is a family as long as there is love. Too many times a book is read in a classroom about that "One big happy family", and in this meaning a mommy, daddy, and child, and sitting out there is a child who lives with just a mommy or just a daddy and feels ashamed or that he/she does not have a whole family. So these books should give children the comfort in knowing that living in a single parent home is just as fufilling and wonderful as living in a home with both parents. The selection should reach out to any children of any age. Please have nominations submited by February 19th, 2008.